Green Tea - salvation from the fullness

Green tea may slow the process gain extra weight, even if you already have problems with the waist. This conclusion was American scientists from the University of Pennsylvania.

If you can not completely abandon a fatty meal, but want as much as possible to neutralize its harmful effect on the waist, do not forget the red wine and try to drink "harmful" products   green tea . Contained in this drink epigallocatechin gallate ( EGCG ) Significantly slows the process of weight gain associated with fad fat diet, the study found.

Scientists kept group of laboratory mice on a fat diet, at the same time giving them   EGCG . In the control group of mice were on the same diet, but not received at the same component contained in the green tea . As a result, click on EGCG   recovered by 42% less than in the second group of rodents. As researchers found, EGCG   allows the body to absorb up to 30% less fat.

"At this catechin has two significant advantages - explains the action of EGCG study author Dr. Joshua Lambert. - First, EGCG reduces the amount absorbed by the body fat. Second, increases the chances of the body to use that fat, which also has a beneficial effect on the situation weight ".

These studies are published in the journal Obesity. It is reported that green tea does not suppress appetite, as both groups of mice ate about the same amount of fatty foods. However, in order to achieve the same effect, which was observed in the mice in the study, a person need to drink a day to ten cups of tea.

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