For twenty days Brazilian scientists fed twenty Swiss four-month-old female mice two different diets. One group of mice received a standard diet, and the other — a high-glucose mixture of standard food, sucrose and condensed milk (1: 1: 1,2). In the second 20-day experimental period, the animals were separated into the 4 following groups: group 1 received the standard diet and green tea hour after the start of the light phase of the day; group 2 received the standard diet and green tea one hour after the start of the dark phase; group 3 received the high-glucose diet and green tea one hour after the start of the light phase; and group 4 received the high-glucose diet and green tea one hour after the start of the dark phase.
Twenty days later, the results of various analyzes revealed the following. The appetite decreased in all groups of mice, regardless of the preliminary diet and the time when green tea was consumed. A noticeable and rapid weight loss was observed only in those mice that were given green tea in the light phase of the day.
The results are beautiful and seem tempting to take a shot oneself. However, it would be right to first mention the recipe of the green tea that Brazilian scientists were giving the mice. 200 grams of powdered tea diluted in a liter of distilled water and boiled for 20 minutes in a 2.5-liter glass flask, filtered and then stored in a refrigerator for 3-4 days. And the mice were to drink this tea forcibly at the rate of 0.2 grams of the drink per kilogram of weight per day. That is, an average man to achieve a similar effect will need to take 16 grams of such extract per day. Well, perhaps, one can try doing it without extra enforcement.
