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Green coffee beans show potential for losing weight
Orlando Slantinel ^ | 03.27.2012 | Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times

Posted on 03/28/2012 7:53:42 AM PDT by Prov1322

When roasted at 475 degrees, coffee beans are sometimes described as rich and full-bodied. But for the full-bodied person who is not so rich, unroasted coffee beans — green as the day they were picked — may hold the key to cheap and effective weight loss, new research suggests.

In a study presented Tuesday at the American Chemical Society's spring national meeting in San Diego, 16 overweight young adults took, by turns, a low dose of green coffee bean extract, a high dose of the supplement, and a placebo. Though the study was small, the results were striking: Subjects lost an average of 17.5 pounds in 22 weeks and reduced their overall body weight by 10.5%.

If green coffee extract were a medication seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration, these results would make it a viable candidate — more than 35% of subjects lost more than 5% of their body weight, and weight loss appeared to be greater while subjects were taking the pills than when they were on the placebo.

But as a dietary supplement, green coffee extract does not require the FDA's blessing. In fact, it is already available as a naturopathic medicine and antioxidant.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coffee; greencoffee; weightloss; wholecoffeebean
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To: count-your-change
Simply biting into one causes the mouth to draw up tighter than a rusty bumper bolt making eating impossible.

Brings to mind memories of youth...a large, gnarled persimmon tree in the woods behind the neighborhood. Many neighborhood-kid dares were issued to bite into those green ones. Of course, it was also a pleasure to visit the tree when they were ripened and "just right".

21 posted on 03/28/2012 8:54:33 AM PDT by moovova (Comments at FreeRepublic are WAY MORE interesting than the articles.)
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To: Doogle

and red wine


22 posted on 03/28/2012 8:55:44 AM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

Thanks :)


23 posted on 03/28/2012 8:56:48 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (I can haz Romney's defeat?)
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To: Pride in the USA

Coffee and chocolate...the breakfast of champions.


24 posted on 03/28/2012 8:59:59 AM PDT by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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To: Prov1322
From the article:

The trial was conducted in India and paid for by Applied Food Sciences Inc. of Austin, Tex., a manufacturer of green coffee bean extract.

25 posted on 03/28/2012 9:07:27 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Prov1322

“Green coffee beans show potential for losing weight

so who wants a skinny coffee bean?


26 posted on 03/28/2012 9:27:16 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Prov1322
Given all the warnings about potential food shortages in the very near future, maybe carrying a little extra fat is a good, evolutionarily smart idea, at least until this progressive/socialist revolution thing is over and we get back to prosperity and freedom again.

Mass starvation is a very effective diet and carrying an extra 10-20 lbs might mean you survive until you get to eat again.

The obama diet? Hoard and eat like you won't see food again.

27 posted on 03/28/2012 9:40:06 AM PDT by GBA (America has been infected. Be the cure!)
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To: moovova
Nothing like the wild ones for flavor. The other treat I used to find was the paw-paw. Nothing like it!
28 posted on 03/28/2012 10:37:47 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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