Life Extension Daily News: "The antiobesity effect of epigallocatechin gallate from green tea deserves more attention.
'During the last decade, the traditional notion that green tea consumption benefits health has received significant scientific attention and, particularly, the areas of cardiovascular disease and cancer were subject to numerous studies. Due to the ever-growing obesity pandemic, the antiobesity effects of green tea are being increasingly investigated in cell, animal, and human studies,' scientists in Switzerland report in their review.
S. Wolfram and colleagues working with DSM Nutrition Products summarized, 'Green tea, green tea catechins, and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) have been demonstrated in cell culture and animal models of obesity to reduce adipocyte differentiation and proliferation, lipogenesis, fat mass, body weight, fat absorption, plasma levels of triglycerides, free fatty acids, cholesterol, glucose, insulin and leptin, as well as to increase beta-oxidation and thermogenesis. "