{"id":3837,"date":"2010-08-16T03:50:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T01:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:29:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:29:55","slug":"healthy-skeptic-green-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/healthy-skeptic-green-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Healthy Skeptic on Green Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Woolston, &#8220;The Healthy Skeptic,&#8221; is a man after my own heart: someone who approaches claims with a skeptical eye, but is capable of evaluating them fairly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/la-he-healthy-skeptic-green-tea-20100816-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In today&#8217;s LA Times column, he provides an overview of green tea for weight loss<\/a>.\u00a0 A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But even modest weight loss can be a positive step, says Arpita Basu, assistant professor of nutritional sciences at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Basu was the lead author of a 2010 study of 35 obese people who consumed either 4 cups of strong green tea, two capsules of green tea extract (totaling 460 mg. of EGCG) or two placebo pills every day for eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Subjects drinking green tea or taking green tea supplements lost an extra 5.5 pounds (2.5 kilograms) and 4.9 pounds (1.9 kg.), respectively, compared with the subjects who didn&#8217;t consume any green tea. Reporting in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, the researchers speculated that the weight-reducing power of green tea might be especially strong in people who are already obese.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody should count on green tea alone to help them reach a healthy weight, but it could be a helpful part of a more comprehensive weight-loss program that includes diet and exercise, Basu says. Even if it didn&#8217;t help shed a single pound, the antioxidants in green tea might help lower the risk of heart disease, she adds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds about right:\u00a0green tea\/standardized green tea extract\u00a0can offer a helpful &#8211;\u00a0 and potentially healthful &#8211;\u00a0nudge, but doesn&#8217;t represent a miracle. Good ol&#8217; diet and exercise still rulz, claims by\u00a0CCA Industries\u00a0or Metabolife notwithstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Woolston, &#8220;The Healthy Skeptic,&#8221; is a man after my own heart: someone who approaches claims with a skeptical eye, but is capable of evaluating them fairly. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24,27,28,29],"tags":[571,779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}