I love it when we get study after study that shows the benefit to green tea, but this is a great one, especially coming up on holiday season.
A New study supported by the National Institutes of Health and appearing in the Journal, Obesity shows once again that green tea my help in the fight against fat.
The study, conducted at Penn State showed that in mice green tea helped the body from absorbing fat and further optimized how it used what was absorbed.
The study was performed by feeding two groups of mice identical high fat diets, while supplementing one group with green tea. What the found was that while both groups gained weight, the group that was also supplemented with green tea gained weight at a 45% slower rate.
In their study they found that the green tea had no affect on appetite, rather it influenced how the fat was absorbed and processed.
Researchers believe that this same benefit could achieved in people by drinking several cups of green tea a day.