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Oporto researchers confirm benefits of green tea A group of researchers from Oporto University’s medicine department has concluded that drinking green tea favours the redistribution of body fat and diminishes the amount of fatty tissue that is most harmful to health. The scientists’ study, released this week, has found that green tea reduces the fatty tissue that accumulates around the stomach and is more damaging to human health than the sub-surface fat on the thighs and buttocks. Integrated into studies regarding the effects of various food stuffs on body fat the investigation studied the results of drinking green tea on two groups of lab rats; one group that drank green tea for six months, the other that was given plain water. All of the rats gained weight over the six-month period, but the group that drank green tea “gained less weight than the other group”, the experts confirmed. Differences found between the various types of body fats of the two groups were also studied, leading to the conclusion that “drinking green tea interferes with the organisation of body fat by creating a cellular pattern that is healthier and less predisposed to developing pathogens”.
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