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Green tea does not promote weight maintenance after body-weight loss

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, June 7th, 2004

Green tea does not promote weight maintenance after body-weight loss.

"The present study was conducted to investigate whether green tea may improve weight maintenance by preventing or limiting weight regain after weight loss of 5 to 10% in overweight and moderately obese subjects. The study had a randomized, parallel, placebo-controlled design. A total of 104 overweight and moderately obese male and female subjects (age 18-60 years; BMI 25-35 kg/m2) participated," investigators in the Netherlands report.

"The study consisted of a very-low-energy diet intervention (VLED; 2.1 MJ/d) of 4 weeks followed by a weight-maintenance period of 13...

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