Articles for tag: Caffeine Content, Yerba Mate

Yerba Mate: About the Drink and How to Make it

About Yerba Mate Yerba mate is an unusual and very popular tea from South America. it has a high caffeine content with supposedly fewer negative side effects than other caffeine-rich drinks. It’s prepared in an ingenious way. Rather than separate the herb from water after brewing, the leaves are dumped into a mate, or gourd ...

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Yerba Mate and Weight Loss

Yerba Mate can help you lose weight when it’s combined with other herbs for thermogenic effects and as long as you can tolerate caffeine. If you are sensitive to caffeine or are addicted to caffeine, it is probably a wise idea to avoid Yerba Mate. Too much caffeine can prevent some people from losing weight. ...

20 Herbal Stimulants Found in Caffeine-Free Diet Pills

Just because the label on a diet pill reads “caffeine-free” does not mean there are no stimulants in the formula. Many supplement companies will remove caffeine so they can market the supplement as “caffeine-free”, but they never bother to tell dieters about the plethora of other stimulants in the formula. I drink three to four ...

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Yerba Mate Tea and Cancer

In subtropical South America, when friends or family members gather around a hollowed-out gourd and share a hot beverage through a special straw, the communal liquid they’re drinking is called yerba mate. This special “tea” is popular in southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Featuring strong stimulant properties and a bitter earthy flavor, ...

Renew Life 3 Day Diet Cleanse Review

Renew Life’s 3 Day Diet Cleanse shots contain a morning formula and an evening formula. The AM formula gives you a boost of energy and the PM formula helps you cleanse. I was curious to review the 3 day diet cleanse because I’ve tried so many diets for a short duration as part of my ...

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5 Healthy Alternatives to Coffee

It is a known fact that Americans like their coffee. In fact, Americans drink about 400 million cups of coffee a day which makes the U.S. the world’s largest coffee consumer. Sure, coffee enhances alertness and mental and phsyical performance, but in the long run coffee can actually pose some big health threats. Coffee inhibits ...

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3 Teas for LDL or ‘Bad’ Cholesterol

Most people know that high cholesterol is bad, but high LDL cholesterol is the worst. Basically, LDL – low-density lipoprotein – is the “bad” cholesterol that you don’t want. High levels of LDL can cause health problems such as stroke, heart attack or heart disease. If you try hard, stick to a diet low in ...

Caffeine and Its Substitutes

Caffeine is the commonly used name for trimethylxanthine, found in certain plants. It is most commonly ingested through the use of coffee, tea, and cocoa. There are other, less popular ways to ingest the substance such as guarana and yerba mate, two plants containing the alkaloid. Certain soft drinks also contain caffeine. The most common ...

Are There Any Yerba Mate Side Effects?

What exactly is Yerba Mate and are there known side effects to using it? Maybe you’ve heard about Yerba Mate as a safe and healthy herbal alternative to caffeine drinks such as coffee and tea, but you’re wondering what side effects there are with yerba mate. Yerba Mate is an herbal shrub or tree that’s ...