MENOPOT MELTER: Matcha tea

Brown fat loses its ability to burn glucose as you age, resulting in creeping weight gain. But Korean research suggests that sipping two 8 oz. cups of matcha tea daily corrects this metabolic slowdown, helping you shed twice as much weight and four times more belly fat than if you’d gone tea-free. The study authors say matcha contains three times more epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) than green tea, and EGCG switches on glycolysis (the burning of glucose for fuel) inside brown fat cells.