[Mark Felton]

The NEw, All Powerful, Green Tea pill will be on supermarket shelves nationwide very soon. 30 pills for $19.95

(each capsule stuffed with crushed green tea leaves)

[Perdogg]

I guess they are good for you since they make your body rid itself of your bad meals.

[clyde asbury]

Researchers now believe black tea provides many of the same health benefits as green tea

http://chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa021103a.htm

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Actually, you've been able to buy green tea pills for years...and they're usually cheaper than that...

[doc30]

Why not just drink green tea?

[trisham]

I'm drinking a cup of Earl Grey tea now. Why buy the pills when one can have the real thing?

[ryan71]

study has found,study has found,study has found....

Next week, green tea kills you.

Moderation, people.

[JamesP81]

But British heart experts said the benefits may be linked to the whole Japanese diet, which is healthier than that eaten in the west.

Most east asian cuisine is far more healthy than American food. There's a Thai restaraunt in my town that is amazing.

[spectre]

I've been taking Green Tea Capsules for five years..70 capsules in the bottle for less than $6 bucks..(Wal*Mart)..

sw

[Larry Lucido]

Drinking exclusively green tea reduces the risk of dying while drinking some other color tea by 100%.

[The Great RJ]

New week there will be another study that shows green tea increases the risk of toe nail cancer.

[Popocatapetl]

The Chinese medical community is so convinced of its efficacy for bowel disorders, including cancers, that when you are diagnosed, the first thing they do is pour in strong green tea in *both* ends. And they don't stop doing it.

I'm reminded of the story of the old man prescribed hot tea enemas for theraputic reasons. When they turned on the nozzle, he pursed his lips and made a disapproving sound.

"What?", asked his nurse, "Too hot?"

"No," he replied. "Too sweet!"

[No.6]

This is non-news; green tea has been known to be a huge source of anti-oxidants and other beneficial compounds for a long time now.

[XR7]

Drinking green tea can substantially cut the risk of dying from a range of illnesses, a Japanese study has found.

The results of a vast Japanese conspiracy.

[SirLinksalot]

I'm confused with the so many competing claims out there.

We have Japanese Researchers claiming that Green Tea he;ps cut the risks of cardiovascular disease by > 25% ( a significant benefit ). Then we had an FDA study last year rejecting this claim.

How do you account for this for instance :

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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/05/10/144156.php

The Food and Drug Administration has rejected the petition of Ito En Ltd, a Japanese company and supposedly the world's largest green tea manufacturer that wanted to sell this tea and make the claim that drinking five ounces a day can reduce the risk of cardio vascular disease.

Despite the wide spread popularity of green tea there has been no scientific evidence to indicate that these unfermented tea leaves offer any preventative health benefits whatsoever.

The FDA found "no credible evidence to support qualified health claims for green tea or green tea extract and a reduction of a number of risk factors associated with cardio vascular disease." Translation: green tea does nothing for you.

This latest FDA ruling gives green tea a batting average of .000, as the FDA has already ruled that this tea does not offer any protection from contracting any type of cancer.

Despite these rulings people will still cling to the superstitious belief that green tea offers some kind of benefits. And in the face of this stake through the heart, I fully expect the green tea believers and the other natural remedy folks to make the claim that the FDA is somehow in cahoots with the drug companies in the effort to discredit an alternative remedy, or some other conspiratorial nonsense.

People can still buy Green Tea, but they will have to face the reality that it does nothing for them.

Perhaps this ruling — which adds more weight to the preponderance of scientific evidence that these panaceas don't work — will help some people understand that there are no individual foods that can prevent disease or cause disease, and to understand that the term "lifestyle" means more than just drinking something or not eating something

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SEE ALSO HERE :

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12718769/

FDA rejects green tea health claims
No credible evidence that drinking it reduces heart disease risk

The Associated Press


Updated: 7:53 p.m. ET May 10, 2006
WASHINGTON - There is no credible scientific evidence that drinking green tea reduces the risk of heart disease, federal regulators said Tuesday in rejecting a petition that sought to allow tea labels to make that claim.

The Food and Drug Administration said it reviewed 105 articles and other publications submitted as part of the petition but could find no evidence to support claims of the beverage’s health benefits.

“FDA concludes there is no credible evidence to support qualified health claims for green tea or green tea extract and a reduction of a number of risk factors associated with CVD” or cardiovascular disease, Barbara O. Schneeman, director of the agency’s Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements, wrote in a letter denying the petition. The FDA posted the letter to its Web site Tuesday.

Ito En Ltd., a Japanese company that bills itself as the world’s largest green tea company, and its U.S. subsidiary, Ito En (North America) Inc., petitioned the FDA in June 2005, seeking to make the claim that drinking at least five ounces of green tea a day may reduce the risk of heart disease.


A message left for a spokesman for Ito En (North America) Inc. was not immediately returned late Tuesday. A message left for the AAC Consulting Group, a Rockville, Md. company that filed the actual petition, also was not immediately returned.

Green tea is brewed from the leaves of Camellia sinensis, also known as Thea sinensis. Unlike black and oolong tea, green tea is made from unfermented tea leaves.

The FDA previously has said that green tea likely does not reduce breast, prostate or any other type of cancer risk.

Nonetheless, the belief that drinking green tea confers health benefits has driven its popularity over the last decade, the Tea Association of the United States has said.

A health claim, in the language of the FDA, characterizes the relationship between a substance and a reduction in the risk of contracting a particular disease.

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So, who to believe, the Japanese Researchers or the FDA ?
ANYONE WITH A BETTER OPINION OUT THERE ?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Strictly technically speaking, off course, is the fact that the typical green tea tastes so bad it only makes you FEEL like you're living forever...

[Cacique]

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[Darth Republican]

From Woody Allen's Sleeper (1973)

Dr. Melik: [puzzling over list of items sold at Miles' old health-food store] ... wheat germ, organic honey and... tiger's milk.
Dr. Aragon: Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible!

[RMDupree]

I drink gallons of this stuff. It tastes wonderful hot or cold and is a terrific thrist quencher. :-D

[fortunecookie]

I love green tea, and so this is even better news.

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