Research
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Combining a hypocaloric diet with Monoselect Camellia (a green tea extract) yields superior weight loss compared to hypocaloric diet alone.
If you are on a calorie-restricted diet for weight loss, adding 150mg of Monoselect Camellia (a green tea extract) daily may help you lose more weight than dieting alone. This works by boosting fat oxidation and reducing lipid absorption.
ModerateSupportsMEDIUM confidence
Based on the results, the available interventions formed nine separate networks... Overall, Hyc+MonCam... were the better treatments for weight loss in the networks of this study.
Why this rating
Based on 5 RCTs, but the network was sparse with indirect comparisons; risk of bias was mixed.
Source
Diet Therapeutics Interventions for Obesity: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis
Mina Morsali et al. · Journal of Research in Health Sciences · 2021
DOI 10.34172/jrhs.2021.63
Meta-analysis · 36 studiesCited 22×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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