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Oolong tea helps you to lose weight - new study

June 6th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

“Scientists: Oolong tea helps you lose weight” reports on a new research study:

Scientists have proven that drinking tea can help people lose weight.

During a five-year study, researchers discovered five new genes related to obesity, which point to the cause of the condition. However they also found that the polyphenol compound in tea - especially Oolong tea - can help obese people battle the bulge.

Oolong is a traditional Chinese tea, tasting more like green tea than traditional black tea. Oolongs produced in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian Province and in the Central Mountains of Taiwan are very popular.

Oolong tea leaves are rolled into long curly leaves or into balls like gunpowder tea, and it’s widely available.