New study finds that green tea may decrease the risk of obesity and many inflammatory biomarkers associated with poor health. The findings of the study are published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.
The findings showed that mice fed a high-fat diet supplemented with green tea gained about 20 percent less weight and had lower insulin resistance than mice fed an otherwise identical diet without tea.
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Green tea is the least processed variant of tea. Tea is a beverage made from the processed leaves of Camellia sinensis (Family- Theaceae).
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Mice fed a diet of two percent green tea extract had improved gut health including more beneficial microbes in the intestines and less permeability in the intestinal wall a condition called "leaky gut" than those that ate a diet without it.
Leaky gut is a problem in humans that contribute to widespread low-grade inflammation.
"This study provides evidence that green tea encourages the growth of good gut bacteria, and that leads to a series of benefits that significantly lower the risk of obesity," said lead author Richard Bruno, Professor at the Ohio State University.
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Green tea is loaded with antioxidants can improve heart health and prevent deaths by lowering the risk of heart attacks and strokes caused by atherosclerosis, i.e., a condition of narrowed artery walls due to the accumulation of fat deposits in the walls of arteries.
For eight weeks, the team fed half of the male mice a high-fat diet that causes obesity and half were fed a regular diet. In each of those groups, half ate green tea extract mixed with their food.
Female mice were not included as they are resistant to diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance.
Green tea also protected against the movement of endotoxin the toxic bacterial component out of their guts and into the bloodstream.
"Consuming a little throughout the course of a day with food might be better," Bruno said.
Drinking green tea has also been linked to a lower risk of cancer, heart and liver disease.
Source: IANS
"This study provides evidence that green tea encourages the growth of good gut bacteria, and that leads to a series of benefits that significantly lower the risk of obesity," said lead author Richard Bruno, Professor at the Ohio State University.
Green Tea May Lower Heart Disease Risk
Green tea is loaded with antioxidants can improve heart health and prevent deaths by lowering the risk of heart attacks and strokes caused by atherosclerosis, i.e., a condition of narrowed artery walls due to the accumulation of fat deposits in the walls of arteries.
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For eight weeks, the team fed half of the male mice a high-fat diet that causes obesity and half were fed a regular diet. In each of those groups, half ate green tea extract mixed with their food.
Female mice were not included as they are resistant to diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance.
Green tea also protected against the movement of endotoxin the toxic bacterial component out of their guts and into the bloodstream.
"Consuming a little throughout the course of a day with food might be better," Bruno said.
Drinking green tea has also been linked to a lower risk of cancer, heart and liver disease.
Source: IANS
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