Long-term drinking of green tea combined with exercise improves hepatic steatosis and obesity in male mice induced by high-fat diet.

ABSTRACT: Dietary habits and exercise play an important role in the well-being of human health. Currently, how long of drinking tea combined with exercise could efficiently ameliorate hepatic steatosis and obesity still needs to be investigated. Here, short-term and long-term green tea drinking combined with exercise were studied to improve hepatic steatosis and obesity in high-fat diet-induced (HF) mice. Our results showed that Yunkang 10 green tea (GT) combined with exercise (Ex) exhibited synergistic prevention effects on ameliorating hepatic steatosis and obesity. Especially, 22-week intervention with GT or Ex improved all symptoms of obesity, which indicated that long-term intervention exhibited profound preventive effects than the short term. Moreover, the combined intervention of 22 weeks inh

SUBMITTER: Wang R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10867457 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature