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08/15/2022

What Are the Varieties of Green Tea?
There are two main varieties of green tea
• Camellia sinesis variety sinesis
• Camelia sinesis variety assamica
• Matcha tencha variety
• Fermented teas
The sinesis variety is used in tea production China and Japan, and the assamica variety is used in tea production in India.
Matcha tea is a powdered form of a specially cultivated green tea.
Photo is Camelia sinesis sinesis adult plant.

08/08/2022

Where Does Green Tea Act?
All over the body from the brain to the gut. Study the diagram for a summary of where green tea acts.

08/07/2022

Learn why weigh-ins are important and why you should invest in a new scale.

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08/01/2022

What Makes Green Tea Healthy?
Green tea contains many ingredients which are active in our bodies. These include
1. Amino acids,
2. Caffeine
3. Polyphenols especially catechins
4. Flavonoids such as kaempferol, quercetin, and myricetin which are potent antioxidants.
5. Some vitamins, minerals, amino acid, lipids, carbohydrates, and pigments.
6. Trace metals

07/25/2022

How Does Green Tea Help You Lose Weight?
Molecules in green tea reduce fat stores through several pathways.
• Reduces appetite and food consumption.
• Reduces calories absorbed from proteins and lipids in gastrointestinal system.
• Acts on intestinal microbiota by increasing rate of metabolism of fats
• Interferes with production of new fat cells.
• Reduces production of lipids in body.
• Promotes breakdown and metabolism of lipids.
• Increases energy burning by converting white fat to brown fat.
• Promotes the excretion of fat in f***s.

07/17/2022

Can drinking green tea each day help you lose weight?
Regularly drinking green tea each day helps prevent diabetes and obesity by
• Decreasing glucose in blood
• Improving insulin resistance
• Reducing triglycerides and cholesterol levels in blood
• Decreasing weight and amount of body fat
• Decreasing hunger
• Decreasing calorie absorption
• Increasing energy expenditure

07/11/2022

Is Sleep Deprivation Making You Fat?
How much and how well we sleep influences how much we eat (Chaput, 2014).
Lack of sleep
• Increases snacking
• Increases the number of meals we eat each day
• Increases our desire for energy-rich and high calorie foods
Improve sleep quality by
• Eating enough foods high in tryptophan or serotonin
• Discuss use of a sleep aid such as melatonin with your doctor
• Set regular sleep schedule.
Sleep patterns, diet quality and energy balance - PubMed (nih.gov)

06/14/2022

Retrospective study of thousands of women showed that bariatric surgery and weight loss reduced the risk of post-menopausal and endometrial cancers by 33%. doi:10.1097/SLA.0000000000002525

06/13/2022

The good news is weight loss of 10% reduces pain and improves knee function. A weight loss of 7.5 percent reduces your chance of needing a knee replacement.