UI professor researching foods with benefits – like weight loss

When Elvira de Mejia was a girl in Mexico, she remembers friends of her family, cardiologists from Uruguay, bringing mate tea on a visit.

"I've been familiar with the tea since I was small," the University of Illinois food science and human nutrition professor said recently.

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