If you drink the right kind of tea at the right time you can shrink fat cells.
The fermented Chinese tea Pu-Erh, if taken in the morning, will increase your energy and metabolism. Have a cup at lunchtime and it will throw away and metabolize, actually get rid of fat tissue - and in the evening it can become a craving killer!
White tea blocks fat absorption at lunch and chickweed tea is said to reduce bloating in the afternoon.
All this info is according to Bryce Wylde, Canadian alternative medicine expert, appearing here on the Dr. Oz show to discuss the connection between weight loss and tea.