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The Effect of Green Tea Extract on Fat Oxidation at Rest and during Exercise: Evidence of Efficacy and Proposed Mechanisms

Overview of attention for article published in Advances in Nutrition, March 2013
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Title
The Effect of Green Tea Extract on Fat Oxidation at Rest and during Exercise: Evidence of Efficacy and Proposed Mechanisms
Published in
Advances in Nutrition, March 2013
DOI 10.3945/an.112.003269
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Authors

Adrian B. Hodgson, Rebecca K. Randell, Asker E. Jeukendrup

Abstract

Green tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis L plant, which is rich in polyphenol catechins and caffeine. There is increasing interest in the potential role of green tea extract (GTE) in fat metabolism and its influence on health and exercise performance. A number of studies have observed positive effects of GTE on fat metabolism at rest and during exercise, following both shorter and longer term intake. However, overall, the literature is inconclusive. The fact that not all studies observed effects may be related to differences in study designs, GTE bioavailability, and variation of the measurement (fat oxidation). In addition, the precise mechanisms of GTE in the human body that increase fat oxidation are unclear. The often-cited in vitro catechol-O-methyltransferase mechanism is used to explain the changes in substrate metabolism with little in vivo evidence to support it. Also, changes in expression of fat metabolism genes with longer term GTE intake have been implicated at rest and with exercise training, including the upregulation of fat metabolism enzyme gene expression in the skeletal muscle and downregulation of adipogenic genes in the liver. The exact molecular signaling that activates changes to fat metabolism gene expression is unclear but may be driven by PPAR-γ coactivator 1-α and PPARs. However, to date, evidence from human studies to support these adaptations is lacking. Clearly, more studies have to be performed to elucidate the effects of GTE on fat metabolism as well as improve our understanding of the underlying mechanisms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Chile 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Unknown 225 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 56 25%
Student > Master 39 17%
Researcher 17 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 7%
Other 12 5%
Other 29 13%
Unknown 58 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 34 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 14%
Sports and Recreations 27 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 23 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 15 7%
Other 34 15%
Unknown 62 27%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 586. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2024.
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#20
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Outputs of similar age from Advances in Nutrition
#4
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