07.10.05
Green Tea, Cancer, and the FDA
You know what’s cool about having a blog? I get to say stuff that’s on my mind and not really worry too much if it’s politically correct or not. If are thinking that a rant is about to appear, you are right.
Not sure if you have heard it or not but a few days ago the FDA has decided that green tea doesn’t do a thing for cancer. You know, the folks that are worried about us dropping dead from “unsafe” American made drugs obtained at a reasonable cost in Canada? You know, the agency that mandates that before I send the pack of chewing gum I obtained at the local Japanese 7-11 down the street to my twelve year old niece in Mesa, AZ, I must first obtain prior notice from them? Well since the FDA says it doesn’t do anything for cancer, I guess that settles that, right? I don’t think so!
When it comes to green tea and health, there seems to be two main health concerns, weight loss and cancer. People have been hitting me up daily on green tea and weightloss thing for the last year or so, most likely because other companies have been hyping their green tea patches, capsules, and whatnot to those desperate to loose some pounds. We have never tried to sell anyone our products based on this because frankly, I’ve personally never seen a good study that suggests it’s really true. Maybe it’s out there, but I haven’t seen it yet. I mean, as much as I love the stuff, it hasn’t dropped any pounds for me and not many drink more of it than I do. I’m sure it can’t hurt for weight loss, but until I see a really good study on that, I will not tout it as a weight loss helper.
When it comes to cancer, however, that’s a whole different story. I’ve read literally dozens of studies that strongly suggest green tea as a possible cancer preventative. I have personally researched and read numerous studies in journals at the university. They’ve done the studies in Japan; they’ve done them in the USA and Europe. Study after study strongly suggesting green tea as possible/probable preventive for cancer, yet the FDA says it doesn’t do anything for cancer. Hey FDA people, are you calling all of these other scientists liars? This seems rather arrogant to me. I want to know, which green tea did they use? Was it that nasty stuff they sell at the grocery store? I want to know.
Why are they doing this? My best guess would be as a control method. They’ve sure done that with food - as I said earlier, you cannot send food bought in a store overseas and ship it to the USA now without getting permission first. This involving logging into the most tedious, ass backward website you’ve ever encountered and then filling out a bunch of nonsense online forms. We’re talking even for a chocolate bar. Supposedly, this is going to stop the next 9/11 (of course, crossing the border from Mexico into Arizona isn’t quite so complicated.) Now that they have decreed green tea non-effective for cancer, they’ll most likely start going after websites that claim green tea as a cancer cure. Fine by me, I’d like to see some of those people go down actually.
Since you have read this far, I think it’s only fair to leave you with a link. Keep in mind; this is just one of MANY studies out there. I think it’s safe to say that the BBC is considered to be a rather highly qualified journalism source. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3125469.stm
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