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What to do for abdominal weight loss? Study found that tea contains the ingredients that effectively promote lipolysis, especially can found in green tea. Therefore, drinking green tea can give you a flat belly!
Drinking green tea can really lose weight? Recent studies by Unilever R & D center in Shanghai,China & Institute of Lipton Tea, several agencies found that catechin in green tea may bring a beneficial effects to our body composition and fat distribution.
Scientists took 182 healthy but mildly overweight male and female for their study (average body mass index BMI : 27.0+0.2kg/m2, age 37.1 + 0.7 years, female waist circumference>80cm, male waist circumference>85cm) were randomly divided into 4 groups for the experiment.
During the experiment, four groups of people had given: 2 cups of zero calorie drinks a day and there were :
- Placebo (not including catechin, tea flavor) drink two cups per day.
- 1 cup contains of 468mg of catechin beverage + 1 cup of placebo drink
3. 2 cups of beverages with total contain of 440mg catechin
- 2 cups of beverages with total contain of 880 mg catechin
During these 90 days, all the normal diet and daily routine activities remain unchanged. At the end, a precision instrument was used to measure the changes in abdominal fat.
The results showed that compared with the consumption of beverages with catechin for daily intake . There were a significantly reduced in a person’s weight, waist circumference and intra-abdominal fat area. The total body fat was also slightly reduced. The higher concentration of catechin, the greater the change in abdominal fat.
Without changes in diet and physical activity, the group of mildly overweight male and female had drank for 90 days of high catechin content of green tea. Their weight, waist circumference and intra-abdominal fat were significantly reduced.
In view of this, scientists think: green tea catechins may have specific beneficial effects in our body fat distribution.
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