Archive | September, 2009

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September is over! Record mont…

September is over! Record month. Out with the old in with the new.

green tea, EGCG and weight loss

Effects of Catechin Enriched Green Tea on Body Composition Obesity (2009) doi:10.1038/oby.2009.256 Hongqiang Wang1, Yibo Wen1, Yaping Du1, Xiuyuan Yan1, Hongwei Guo2, Jane A. Rycroft3, Niels Boon4, Eva M.R. Kovacs4 and David J. Mela4 Received 30 October 2008; Accepted 2 July 2009; Published online 13 August 2009. Obesity is a major health problem in the developed and developing world. Many “functional” foods and ingredients are advocated for their effects on [...]

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Protecting your skin: an inside out approach with EGCG

  Skin photoprotection by green tea: antioxidant and immunomodulatory effects. Curr Drug Targets Immune Endocr Metabol Disord. 2003 Sep;3(3):234-42.Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. Because of a characteristic aroma and health benefits, green tea is consumed worldwide as a popular beverage. The epicatechin derivatives, commonly called polyphenols, present in [...]

EGCG and Pancreatic Cancer

Front Biosci. 2008 Jan 1;13:440-52 EGCG inhibits growth, invasion, angiogenesis and metastasis of pancreatic cancer.Shankar S, Ganapathy S, Hingorani SR, Srivastava RK.Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas 75703, USA. We have shown that epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a polyphenolic compound from green tea, inhibits growth and induces apoptosis in human [...]

Energy and greenteaHP

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 70, No. 6, 1040-1045, December 1999   Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans1,2,3 Abdul G Dulloo, Claudette Duret, Dorothée Rohrer, Lucien Girardier, Nouri Mensi, Marc Fathi, Philippe Chantre and Jacques Vandermander Background: Current [...]

Green Tea and Effective Exercise

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 87, No. 3, 778-784, March 2008 Green tea extract ingestion, fat oxidation, and glucose tolerance in healthy humans1,2 Michelle C Venables, Carl J Hulston, Hannah R Cox and Asker E Jeukendrup    Background: Green tea consumption is reportedly associated with various health-promoting properties. For example, it has been shown [...]

green tea and calorie reduction

 Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2009 Sep 7:1-9 A novel green tea meal replacement formula for weight loss among obese individuals: a randomized controlled clinical trial. Tsai CH, Chiu WC, Yang NC, Ouyang CM, Yen YH.  Department of BioIndustry Technology, DaYeh University, Changhua, R.O.C, Taiwan. Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of a green [...]