objectives: periodontal pathogens need acidic environments to proliferate in periodontium, and their growth is affected by the salivary flow rate and ph of the mouth. alterations in flow and acidity of saliva have an important effect on oral diseases such as periodontitis. this study was designed to compare salivary ph and flow rate before and after using green tea, black tea and coffee in pati...

introduction: nowadays in the field of dentistry, there is a trend to encourage the use of herbal and natural products. the high level of clinical research in terms of considering green tea and aloe vera, with various functionality for individual use is a typical example. the purpose of this randomized, controlled, and double-blind study was to evaluate comparative evaluation of green tea-aloe ...

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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The objective of the study was to provide useful insights into plain water intake of Korean adults according to life style, anthropometric, and dietary characteristics. SUBJECTS/METHODS The data from the 2008-2010 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used. The subjects were 14,428 aged 20-64 years. Water intake was estimated by asking the question ...

Background: Green tea is a popular type of tea that is made of unfermented tea leaves. Green tea has been used for thousands of years by people in Eastern countries for a variety of health reasons. One of the primary benefits of Green Tea in regard to fertility is not in what it contains, but rather in what it does not contain. Materials and Methods: In the present study attempts to investigate...

A challenge that must be addressed when conducting studies with complex natural products is how to evaluate their complexity and variability. Traditional methods of quantifying a single or a small range of metabolites may not capture the full chemical complexity of multiple samples. Different metabolomics approaches were evaluated to discern how they facilitated comparison of the chemical compo...

Background: Previous studies have reported controversial results for the association between green tea consumption and low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol and body weight. Objective: The objective of this trial was to determine the effects of two kinds of green tea on LDL-cholesterol and body weight. Methods: We randomly assigned 151 participants (98 men, 53 women) aged 30-70 years into t...

the effect of green tea, echinacea purpurea, rosemary extracts on dilation of oxidation and rancidity development in broiler thigh meat was studied. therefore, fresh thighs were dipped in 0.1%  alcoholic aqueous extract during 15 min and kept frozen (-20°c) until 6 months. sampling was carried out at 1, 30, 60, 90, 120,150 and 180 days of aging at -20°c. a parallel experiment with ascorbic acid...