Green Tea Demonstrates Benefits

Green Tea Demonstrates Benefits

For Managing Body Weight and
Fat, According To A New
Laboratory-Controlled Study

Green Tea is a Naturally-
Potent Source of
Antioxidants, Carotenoids,
Phytochemicals Known
To be Valuable For
Supporting Cardiovascular
Health, Immune Function
and Weight Management...

Consistently Supported by
Scientific Research

Laboratory subjects consuming green tea along with
a high fat diet gained less body weight and accumulated
less fat than animals not supplemented with tea, says a
new study.

Consuming the equivalent of five to eight cups of green
tea a day was associated with a 5.6 percent decrease
in body weight gain, and a 17.8 percent decrease in fat

accumulation over eight weeks, according to findings
published in Nutrition Research.

The researchers also noted a decrease in protein
digestion following green tea consumption, report researchers from Poznan University in Poland.
"Although both 1.1 and 2.0 percent green tea

aqueous extract doses improved cardiovascular risk
indicators, they, in addition, inhibited protein digestion,"

report the researchers.

"For that reason, results obtained in our study indicate
some difficulties in reconciling the high effectiveness

in prevention of cardiovascular risk factors with low
influence on dietary protein digestion," they added.

Tea Facts

The majority of science on tea has looked at green
tea, with benefits reported for reducing the risk of
Alzheimer's and certain cancers, improving
cardiovascular and oral health, as well as aiding
in weight management.

Green tea contains between 30 and 40 per cent of
water-extractable polyphenols, while black tea (green
tea that has been oxidized by fermentation) contains
between 3 and 10 per cent. Oolong tea is semi-
fermented tea and is somewhere between green and
black tea. The four primary polyphenols found in fresh tealeaves are epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG),
epigallocatechin, epicatechin gallate, and epicatechin.

The new study adds to the potential weight management
effects of green tea.

Study Details

Researchers fed laboratory-controlled animals a high-fat
diet, supplemented with 1.1 and 2.0 percent green tea
extract for eight weeks. Results showed that the subjects

had significantly lower measures of atherogenesis of
about 14.3 percent, compared to non-supplemented
animals.

In additions to the improvements in body weight and
decreased fat accumulation for the 2 percent green tea

group, the researchers noted that both green tea groups
displayed a reduction in digestion of protein of about 17
percent, compared with about 7 percent in the high fat
fed animals only.

"It was concluded that green tea extract may have
preventive effects on the accumulation of visceral fat but

only in higher doses," wrote the researchers. "Although
both doses improved cardiovascular risk indicators, they,
in addition, significantly inhibited protein digestion."

Source: Nutrition Research

Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 157-164

"Green tea aqueous extract reduces visceral fat
and decreases protein availability in rats fed with
ACT ENERGY DRINK
a high-fat diet"