The article says "the success of tea in burning calories has been reported in the Journal of Nutrition, which cited a study of people who drank five 10-ounce servings of oolong tea for three days, after which their metabolism (energy expenditure) increased by 3% more than people in the control group who drank water." It also mentions a study "reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, [which] found that metabolism increased by 4% after study participants were given a green tea extract as opposed to a placebo or caffeine."
The article adds that "green tea is also helpful in curing the appetite, an essential factor for weight loss, [and that it...] has the ability to block the absorption of ingested fat and cholesterol."
It mentions yet another study done in China, in which hamsters were "fed a diet of high-fat and given green tea extract, [finding] that the hamsters had lower levels of triglycerides (a fatty substance in the blood) and total cholesterol compared to hamsters given the same diet without the green tea extract. It was further discovered that the more green tea extract given, the lower the cholesterol and triglycerides levels."
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner News, "Slimming down by drinking tea"
Taken from http://teaquilibrium.blogspot.com/
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