German scientists have confirmed that polyphenols in green tea can reduce the fat content in mice, thus preventing obesity.
According to reports, experts from the German Institute of Nutrition extracted EGCG (a polyphenol compound) from green tea and fed mice with substances with the same fat content but different EGCG extract content. The results showed that the weight and body fat content of these mice decreased significantly after 29 days.
Researchers believe that this weight loss effect is achieved by reducing the absorption of nutrients in the intestine and strengthening fat oxidation. Previous studies have also proved that polyphenols in green tea can lower blood pressure and fight cancer.
Tea, called tea in ancient times, is the bud leaf of tea tree. Bitter and sweet, slightly cold. It is endowed with the fresh air of heaven and earth and cultivated by spring dew.
It is recorded in the Notes on Materia Medica in the Tang Dynasty that tea is "thin after a long time". Modern research has also continuously confirmed the slimming function of tea. According to Japanese scholars' research, green tea can inhibit the increase of serum and liver sterols in animals fed with high-fat diet, and obviously slow down the speed of weight gain, suggesting that green tea has anti-hyperlipidemia and obesity prevention effects. Experts in China found that Tieguanyin tea can accelerate the degradation of human blood lipids, and think that both black tea and green tea can reduce weight. This kind of weight loss is not only the loss of water, but also the loss of body fat. In addition, tea also has the functions of scavenging free radicals and inhibiting lipid peroxidation. Therefore, drinking tea regularly can achieve the effect of reducing fat and weight and prolonging life.
Besides black tea, green tea, scented tea, tea bricks and tea beads, drinks with lipid-lowering and weight-reducing effects, such as lotus leaf drink, Sophora japonica leaf tea, corn silk tea, hawthorn Yinju tea and plantain slimming tea, also have weight-reducing effects.