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Written by Debojit
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Sunday, 10 June 2007 |
Chinese scientists have claimed that drinking tea, especially Oolong variety, can help bourgeois shed weight. During a five-year study, researchers discovered five enhanced genes approximating to obesity, which tail to the open of the condition. However, they and found that the polyphenol compound in tea - especially Oolong tea - can help obese people battle the bulge.
The focal point of the study was to help address progress fatness among Chinese children, especially in cities. The groundbreaking explore reveals that overeating is not the only cause.
"Diet and lifestyle are respective the extraneous reasons," monitor of the Nanjing Institute for Pediatrics, Guo Xirong said. "The genetic conditions of the tribe could predispose, or planed cause, spawn and adolescents to incline overweight," Guo was quoted as saying by 'China Daily'.
Guo won the Soong Ching Ling Foundation Pediatrics Award last bout for his pioneering tour in identifying the fresh genes comparable to fatness and suggesting massed intervention strategies.
Despite their findings, Guo admits able is no magnetism bullet for treating greenness obesity.
But he said a healthier eats and lifestyle consign help. According to Guo, the seeds of fleshiness can be planted in successors extremely earlier than ofttimes believed. When offspring are still in the fetus, they tend to become obese later in life if pregnant mothers eat too much and have a dramatic increase in weight.
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