Lycium barbarum Increases Caloric Expenditure and Decreases Waist Circumference in Healthy Overweight Men and Women: Pilot Study

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 304-309

  Amagase, Harunobu ^a   Nance, Dwight M ^b  

^a FreeLife International   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy expenditure; Goji; Humans; Lycium barbarum; Resting metabolic rate; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIGENIC AGENT; LYCIUM BARBARUM EXTRACT; ANTIOBESITY AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FRUIT JUICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LYCIUM; METABOLIC RATE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BEVERAGE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; MALE; PILOT STUDY; POSTPRANDIAL STATE;

LYCIUM BARBARUM; RODENTIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; BASAL METABOLISM; BEVERAGES; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CALORIMETRY, INDIRECT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYCIUM; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PILOT PROJECTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857769566     PISSN: 07315724     EISSN: 15411087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07315724.2011.10719973     Document Type: Article

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