I just published “Green Tea Won’t Help With Weight Loss”https://medium.com/p/green-tea-wont-help-with-weight-loss-ee1777ff4fa2 …
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Essentially, there have been quite a few studies on whether green tea is useful for weightloss Very few of them have been positive
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In recent years, there have been 5 systematic reviews into the question. Of these, 1 (in 2009) was positive, the rest were negative (2012, 2014, 2014, 2015)
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The 2009 review was, by far, the most poorly done. The more rigorous evidence has demonstrated no benefit from green tea above that of placebo
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Replying to @GidMK
Which is what we should expect
Some patients have presented with imports for ‘slimming’ that clearly contain stimulants or thyroxine
Shakes
Tachycardia
Diaphoresis
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Yeh I didn't really get into the contamination issues because that's a whole other kettle of fish, but it is definitely a huge problem
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