Green Tea helps with Weight Loss

Question

The idea that green tea can help with weight loss is spreading all over Tik Tok, as drinking 3-5 cups of green tea a day will aid in weight loss and actually help speed up the process

Comments

Hello! I loved your claim and your article! Forbes is an amazing source and I highly agree behind the science! Maybe next time include some tags or hashtags in order to pool a larger audience.

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Hi! I found it interesting that you used TikTok as a reference. It makes sense to me because so many people are on TikTok and are influenced by it. However, just because it is on TikTok doe snot mean it is true. The article seems to prove your claim correct. I would include more about the articles main point in your claim to further prove the point correct.

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Hi, I agree with what you are saying, after doing a little research on the topic, I think it’s definitely safe to say that green tea does help with weight loss.

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Hello there! I think this topic is very interesting because I have always heard through my close friends and random websites that green tea can help with weight loss, but I have never found enough evidence to back this up. It seems that the article you linked provides several footnotes and hyperlinks that back up the claims made in this article, which makes this a credible claim and source. Maybe a fun addition could be adding in an article that gives examples of recipes that use green tea!

Answer 1

Hi, green tea is having a popular boom over social media at the moment and has a popular rank in drinks, but it doesn't look like there's any scientific connection to it helping you loose weight. In the Forbes article you posted it says that it "may support weight loss" but not a proven fact that drinking a lot will speed up weight loss. In an article, I found by the National Institute of Health it quotes "Green tea preparations appear to induce a small, statistically non‐significant weight loss in overweight or obese adults. Because the amount of weight loss is small, it is not likely to be clinically important. Green tea had no significant effect on the maintenance of weight loss". Drinking green tea does have good health benefits overwise listed in the Forbes and NIH articles, but not any major weight loss benefits.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8406948/#:~:text=Green%20tea%20preparations%20appear%20to,the%20maintenance%20of%20weight%20loss.

https://www.forbes.com/health/nutrition/green-tea-benefits/ 

Comments

Honing in on the specification that green tea causes weight loss is extremely important, and you did that great. The National Institute of Health is also a very reputable source so good job on finding it.

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I love that you have verified sources to help support your claim. An article I read from Forbes as well, stated that there is no actual evidence that green tea helps you lose weight. Just because it is trending on TikTok by no means means it is true.

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You were respectable in validating this person's claim, but you did a good job to verify the exact claim by identifying another source, which proved that green tea and weight loss is not exactly a proven fact. You used a very credible source as well, I believe the National Institutes of Health is one of the better sources that the person should've chosen.

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So the claim is true? Or misleading?

Answer 2

According to MedicalNewsToday, green tea has been found to have a positive impact and correlation to weight loss, but the result of weightless was not significant.

Comments

Is MedicalNewsToday a reputable source? I have never heard of it.

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I think that your response could be supported a little better with examples and more sources/more reputable sources. If you were to remove the “According to” at the beginning of the response, would it still seem like a strong argument? That’s a little thing I like to look at when writing my responses that may help strengthen a response.

Answer 3

I believe that this article is very credible because they have qualified writers and their information is heavily backed up. Especially the author of this article, Rachael Ajmera, is a registered dietician and health writer, so her facts aren't coming from suspicious origins. I thought it was important to find another valid site that supports how green tea influences weight loss because there were only a few sentences that touched on this claim, where it felt more like suspicion than a confident claim. According to MedicalNews Today, "green tea supplements, containing catechins or caffeine, had a small but positive impact on weight loss and weight management." So while it's true that green tea does have an impact on weight loss, that impact is not very significant. So yes this article is coherently true, but its facts sway a bit from other articles as in how it burns fat. 

 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320540#weight-loss

Comments

You are right that their author and the sources of a registered dietitian and a PubMed article are credible, however the article for green tea helping with weight loss in women with PCOS, they stated the evidence had a low confidence interval and was listed as low quality, and that further studies would need to be done to confirm the findings. Overall I think they really just don't know if it helps or not and your inclusion of an additional source that confirms that more studies need to be done on the topic was a good addition.