Reading recently about one popular Japanese diet, I ran across a statement which vastly provoked my curiosity: in some parts of Asia there is a belief that drinking pure water actually can make us… fat, while drinking lots of green tea ensures that we keep a lean and healthy body well into the old age! Indeed, how much do we, Westerners, know about this humble yet miraculous Oriental supertonic - green tea? Read full “Green Tea - Asian Supertonic That Fights Obesity”

The amount on food doled out on our plates directly correlates to the width of our waistlines. We are definitely supersizing, and it clearly shows. In accordance with the statistics, the average rate of obesity in some industrialized countries in the 1970s was about 14%. Now, a quarter of the century later, the picture looks much gloomier: in 2007, about 60% of the Westerners are considered to be overweight or obese, with the future prognosis being even more pessimistic.

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