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"It was known that green tea polyphenols are more effective and offer more health benefits than black tea polyphenols since green tea chemicals are absorbed into the blood and tissue," said Susanne Henning, the study's lead author and an adjunct professor at the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. "Our new findings suggest that black tea, through a specific mechanism through the gut microbiome, may also contribute to good health and weight loss in humans."
That specific mechanism seems to be that it changes the ratio of bacteria in the intestine by increasing the microbes associated with lean body mass and decreasing those associated with obesity. While both green and black teas act as prebiotics in this way, it seems that black tea might have a leg up over its green partner.
The study fed four groups of mice different diets. One group ate low-fat, high-sugar foods,while another had high-fat, high-sugar meals. The other two were both on a high-fat, high-sugar diet but one got green tea extract, while the other received black tea extract.
[...] Because black tea seems to work in the gut, while green tea works in the liver as well as the gut, a combination of both drinks might be most helpful, especially since both beverages have been linked to multiple health benefits beyond weight loss.
The researchers did not specify how much sugar to mix with your black tea.
Susanne M. Henning, et. al. Decaffeinated green and black tea polyphenols decrease weight gain and alter microbiome populations and function in diet-induced obese mice, European Journal of Nutrition, doi:10.1007/s00394-017-1542-8
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 06 2017, @07:31PM (7 children)
I want to come back as a mouse. Mouse health has been researched so much more thoroughly than that of humans. With all the knowledge of mouse health, I should be able to live forever!!
We're gonna be able to vacation in Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and maybe Minnesota soon. Incredible times.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JeanCroix on Friday October 06 2017, @07:34PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @07:40PM
Too bad they kill the mice at the end of the experiments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @07:43PM
...and if you survive their experiments, you'd be put out to stud?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @08:19PM
Come back as one of those poor mice in the mouse universe experiments....
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday October 06 2017, @08:57PM (2 children)
Oddly, this study was done only with male mice.
And its not clear if ALL tea was decaffeinated, or only the green tea. Mention of "decaffeinated" occurred exactly in one place, and may be read to apply only to the green tea.
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(Score: 2) by sbgen on Saturday October 07 2017, @12:59AM (1 child)
> Oddly, this study was done only with male mice.
You stumbled on a well kept secret there - most of the biomedical research is done on male mice and NIH has been worried about the wider implication of that. Perhaps the mechanisms found are not actually applicable to all.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Saturday October 07 2017, @05:33AM
So what else is there?
/s
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