Green tea and weight loss

Weight loss may not be as hard as you thought.   A new study suggests that simply taking high doses of green tea extract may also help prevent weight gain or help weight loss in those who can’t stop eating a high fat diet or typically the Western diet.

The study led by J. Bajerska of Poznan University of Life Sciences in Poznan, Poland and colleagues showed that rats on a high fat diet supplemented with 2% green tea extract, which was water soluble, for eight weeks decreased body weight gain by 5.6 percent and prevented visceral fat accumulation by 17.8 percent, compared to those not using green tea diet.  In other words, taking green tea extract may help weight loss.

In their report published in Nutrition Research, the authors say that green tea extract is associated with lots of health benefits mainly because is is able to reduce body fat and hyopcholesterolemic activities, which further reduced risk of heart disease among other things.

For the study, rats fed with a high fat diet enriched with 1.1 and 20.% green tea aqueous extract for weeks had significantly decrease atherogenic index by about 14%, but only 2% supplementation resulted in a weight loss effect, helping prevent weight gain and fat accumulation.

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