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Can Green Tea Extract Burn Fat, Increase Endurance?

  • January 27, 2005

Don't be surprised if you hear relatively soon on the news about a study that found the use of green tea extract over a 10-week span boosts one's exercise performance by as much as 24 percent. The report claims the study's 24 percent increase in swimming time-to-exhaustion was "accompanied by lower respiratory quotients and higher rates of fat oxidation." Green tea's fat-burning properties are related to a class of polyphenols called catechins, which consist mainly of epigallocatechin...