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YOUR morning coffee not only has the power to get you out of bed in the morning - it could also help you to lose weight.

In fact, drinking up to four cups of the piping-hot drink a day can actually help you shed body fat, scientists have found.

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It comes following a 24-week investigation that examined the impact coffee had on 126 overweight men and women in Singapore.

Scientists asked half the participants, who were all Chinese, Malay or Asian-Indian, to drink four cups of caffeinated coffee on a daily basis.

The other half drank a beverage that mimicked coffee's taste but was neither coffee nor caffeinated.

In particular, experts found at the end of the study that those who had four cups of caffeinated coffee per day over six months had dropped nearly 4 per cent of their body fat in comparison to those that hadn't.

Study author Dr Derrick Johnston Alperet, from the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said: "We were indeed surprised by the observed weight loss that was specifically due to fat mass loss among coffee drinkers."

And Dr Alperet suggested that coffee-fuelled fat loss may be the result of a "metabolic reaction" - rather than changes in lifestyle "namely diet and physical activity".

He claimed thatcaffeine causes the drinker's metabolic process to ramp up - which results in the burning of more calories and a notable drop in body fat.

Dr Alperet also emphasised that while some people may think that having four cups of coffee a day may pose a long-term health risk, that this level of consumption was well within the current norms.

He also noted that on average Europeans can drink up to seven cups of coffee daily, while Americans will have four.

Despite this, Connie Diekman, a food and nutrition consultant and former president of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, is not so sure.

She cautioned: "The four cups allocated in this study appear to be on the high side of intake, so not what I would recommend.

"The higher caffeine content might have helped suppress appetite."

NHS tips for weight loss success

The NHS has shared their three key tips for weight loss success:

Lots of useat and drink more than we realise and do little physical activity. The result is often weight gain.

To lose weight, we need to change our current habits. Thismeans eating less even when eating ahealthy, balanced diet and getting more active.

Fad dietsand exercise regimes that result in rapid weight loss are unlikely to work for long, because these kinds of lifestyle changes can't be maintained.

Once you stop the regime, you're likely to return to old habits and regain weight.

Source:NHS

She added that too much caffeine "can impact the body overall, causing headaches, jitters, rapid heartbeat and stomach distress."

And Dr Alperet agreed that "any decision for a non-coffee drinker to include four cups of coffee per day to his/her diet needs to be carefully calibrated with other caffeine-containing foods, beverages and medication currently consumed."

In the meantime, "we believe more research is needed here," Dr Alperet said.

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"Additional trials with more comprehensive assessments of body composition are needed to confirm our findings."

It comes following another study that foundcoffee can stimulate "brown fat", which burns calories to generate body heat.

Experts from the University of Nottingham said the breakthrough could help tackle the obesity crisis.

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