More Important Than Exercise?…
More Important than Exercise? Getting in shape and losing weight always involves two things: exercise and eating right. I recently saw a meme with a picture of an obese Ronald McDonald that said, “you can’t outrun a bad diet”. Well said! Here's the
I Love It When This Happens!
What a GREAT way to start my week! I just got a challenging question from one of our Okuma Wu-Long Tea Drinkers. Here's what just came into my inbox: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:39 AM, [customer] wrote: Stephanie, I would like for you
Cooking With Tea: Weight Loss Dessert Recipe!
To celebrate 2014: The Year of The Tea as a hot new food trend, we here at Okuma have decided to flood you with delicious, nutritious Wu-Long Tea recipes all week long. We're bringing your four-course feast to a festive close
Cooking With Tea: Weight Loss Chicken Recipe [2 Ways]
Course 3: Weight Loss Main Course Two Ways Well, folks
Move Over "Joe"… There's A New Sheriff In Town
The era of coffee-infused drinks, desserts, and even steak rubs is moving over for a super-hot new food trend: tea. Tea has been a beverage of choice since at least before the time of Confucius – more than 2,500 years ago! In
Cooking With Tea: 2 NEW Fat Loss Soup Recipes!
NPR recently stated that the hot new food trend of 2014 is TEA. That's right, chefs have started cooking with green, black, and oolong teas in everything from aperitifs to desserts. For those of us trying to eat the most nutritious foods
Is Wu-Long The World's Best Tea?
I celebrate tea every day. I drink tea in the morning, for a 3 p.m. pick-me-up and carb-craving crusher… And I take Wu-Long capsules for an added BOOST of polyphenols, mental clarity, and, of course… to keep off unwanted weight! We here are
5 Reasons This Diet "Trick" is Toxic…
When I was a kid, my mom used to show apartments to supplement the family income. She’d have showings from morning until night – and my siblings and I loved to play a game of sneaking into mommy’s purse. We knew
21 Amazing Facts About Wu-Long Tea You Never Knew…
Wu-Long Tea holds some of Nature's most incredible healing powers. There are almost more health benefits than I can list - but just for fun
The Most Dangerous Food In America…
Breaking Bread. Making a toast. Celebrating a birthday. Our lives are inundated with sugar in one way or another. With the epidemic of cancer, child obesity, and diabetes; more researchers are looking carefully at how the sugar epidemic began… and how we
Scientists Confirm THIS Improves Happiness…
There are a few foods I think about when I ponder some of nature’s greatest gifts. Eggs
Why I'm Thankful For Oolong…
Study Shows Oolong Tea Can Burn Extra 240 Calories Per Day
One Of Nature's Most Rare Health Miracles
Did you know that there’s ONE tea that has MORE fatburning potential than EVERY other tea? In fact, drinking this tea has shown up to a 12% increase in fat oxidation over a 24-hour period. When you drink this one special tea,
You Put WHAT In Your Tea?!
I was talking to my mom on the phone the other day and took a big slurp of Wu-Long. After scolding me for rudely slurping in her ear; she inquired as to what I was drinking. I told her it was
Not Your Grocery Store Tea…
I get this question a lot: What Makes Okuma's Wu-Long So Special? When you buy grocery store teas, you're likely to get a lot of toxic "fillers"; including: Artificial Flavors Un-"Natural" Flavors Preservatives Artificial Sweeteners Fillers Deceptive Packaging GMO's Well, NOT so with Okuma's Oolong. Our tea is grown high in
Incredible Study Shows Oolong Tea Lowers Cholesterol…
High cholesterol is a scary reality that millions of people, including some children, face. It is usually associated with arterial degradation, heart disease, or even strokes. But cholesterol is also very misunderstood. A study has recently shed light on a crazy way to
Benefits of Oolong Tea Polyphenols
Polyphenols. It’s a strange word that we throw around a lot around here, but do you know what it means? What exactly are these polyphenols, and even more importantly, why should they matter to you? Let’s take a closer look… Anatomy of a Polyphenol: Simply
Crave: Oolong Iced Tea Recipes
It’s a question that we get a lot around here (especially this time of year)… Can Wu-Long Tea be enjoyed as iced tea? The answer is yes! Whether you like it hot or cold, you can still get all of the amazing benefits
Green Tea and Weight Loss?
I'm sure you have seen a lot of news about the health benefits of green tea or about green tea and weight loss. But is it true? Let's look more closely at the different kinds of tea and how they affect health
Wulong Tea for Your Health
You may have heard a lot about the health benefits of drinking tea, but how do you sort out the fact from the fiction? Let's take a look at oolong/wulong tea and the many ways that it can benefit your health