Another study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was made with a test group of 38 overweight men for 12 weeks.

After the first two weeks the men were divided into two groups:

• the first group drank one bottle of green tea (containing 690 mg of catechins)
• the other group drank one bottle of oolong tea (I’ll talk about it later, for now I will only say it contains 22 mg catechins – a lot less that green tea, isn’t it)

Each man was given one bottle of green tea (oolong tea) a day.

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Here are a few human studies for weight and fat loss effect of green tea:

A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was made with 10 healthy men, divided into two groups:

• test group was given green tea extract containing 90 mg epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG – the main ingredient in green tea extract) and 50 mg caffeine
• the placebo group

The results of the study showed that the group taking green tea extract had greater increase in energy expenditure (up to 4.5%), thermogenesis (up to 4%) and fat burn for a period of 24 hours, compared to the placebo group.
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Do you know why green tea is so popular?

Over the past few years the green tea made a huge breakthrough in health industry, because of its excellent health and weight loss benefits. More and more people are trying to find info about green tea and even more people are sharing their successful weight loss experience with green tea products.
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