Heard lately that research points to green tea consumption as an
assistant to losing weight.
 Can a GA researcher point me to some resources that don't appear to
be sponsored by tea distributors or the "American Green Tea Alliance"
or somesuch organization?

Hi pcventures,
  
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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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Dulloo, A.G., et al. 1999. Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in
catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy
expenditure and fat oxidation in humans. American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition 70(December):1040-1045. Available at
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/70/6/1040
  
"Conclusions: Green tea has thermogenic properties and promotes fat
oxidation beyond that explained by its caffeine content per se. The
green tea extract may play a role in the control of body composition
via sympathetic activation of thermogenesis, fat oxidation, or both."
  
  
Nagao, T., et al. 2005. Ingestion of a tea rich in catechins leads to
a reduction in body fat and malondialdehyde-modified LDL in men.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 81(January):122-129. Abstract
available at
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/81/1/122
  
"Conclusion: Daily consumption of tea containing 690 mg catechins for
12 wk reduced body fat, which suggests that the ingestion of catechins
might be useful in the prevention and improvement of lifestyle-related
diseases, mainly obesity."
  
  
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Agricultural Research Service 
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Bliss, R.M. 2003. Brewing up the latest tea research. Agricultural
Research 51(September):10-13. Available at
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/sep03/tea0903.pdf
  
"ARS chemist Richard Anderson found that regularly brewed tea, when
added to the fat cells of laboratory rats, increased lose weight, we
can?t actually say that green tea makes people lose weight. What we
can say is that it raises metabolic rates and increases fat oxidation
rates. Those are two things that are predictive of weight loss."
(page 3)
  
  
Science News Online | 'Trimming with Tea'
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050212/food.asp
  
  
Hope this helps!
  
Jackburton
Google Answers Researcher
  
  
  
Search terms: "green tea" health "weight loss"

awesome answer - thanks!

The University of Chicago Hospitals
http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2000/20000223-tea.php

Scientists at the University of Chicago's Tang Center for Herbal
Medicine Research have found that a major chemical component of green
tea caused rats to lose up to 21 percent of their body weight.


WebMD Health
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99/105398.htm

Aside from fighting heart disease, cancer, and other diseases, a new
study shows that drinking green tea may also fight fat. The study
showed that people who drank a bottle of tea fortified with green tea
extract every day for three months lost more body fat than those who
drank a bottle of regular oolong tea.

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and only if (sorry) you read Spanish, then you can profit twice from
this treatment since you can download a free e-book named "Larch.pdf".
It teaches you how should combine all these products with attitude,
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I hope you can take advantage of it. Sorry as this free e-book is in
another site: http://www.aflorarte.com/ficha_larch.htm. Good luck!

Yeah! Green Tea is really good for weight loss. Except that,some new
ingredients from Botanicals are found to do good for weight loss. For
example-Flavanols from Cassia Nomame,P57 from Hoodia
Gordonii,Sennosides fron Senna Leaf and Emodin from Rheum. Available
at

Http://www.herbsea.com

Re:amethystherb-ga

Three of the four herbs you list (Cassia, Senna Leaf and Rheum) are
purgatives, and should *never* be used for dieting! They can cause
serious side-effects!