UI professor researching foods with benefits – like weight loss
By Greg Kline
Sunday February 24, 2008
John Dixon
From left, UI graduate student Fatima Zapata, Professor Elvira de Mejia and graduate student Caleb Heck hold bags of mate tea in de Mejia's food sciences lab. Mate tea appears to reduce body fat and weight. At the right is a traditional decorated gourd and straw used to drink mate tea in South America.
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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