Green tea may provide weight loss help
A study published in Clinical Nutrition suggests that green tea may help people lose weight by enhancing the feeling of satiety and preventing hunger. 27 persons were subject to three weeks of negative and three weeks of positive energy balance, during which bioactive ingredients such as capsaicin and green tea were ingested on 10 separate test days while the effects on appetite, energy intake, body weight and heart rate were assessed. The Danish study indicates that a combination of capsaicin and green tea may be helpful in reducing energy intake and might support weight loss periods by relatively sustaining satiety and suppressing hunger.