07.21.05
Interesting Green Tea Article
Not a week went by before another news report on green tea and cancer came, this time from US News & World Report. As I suspected, despite what the FDA says, the jury is still out on this topic - even these guys seem to agree. Read the article and you tell me? In reference to the FDA findings on green tea, I found the following part to be of particular interest:
One caveat: You have to drink a lot of tea to get enough EGCG to do any good. Just how much is not known, but it is somewhere between three to 10 cups a day. Because of its bitterness and the caffeine load of that much tea, that’s hard to do. No wonder that after a detailed analysis of numerous studies of green tea and cancer involving tens of thousands of patients, the Food and Drug Administration announced only two weeks ago that there is “no credible evidence” to support green tea’s health claims when it comes to cancer…
Well, that’s encouraging, but I have to disagree a little here. Three to ten cups a day isn’t hard to do at all, it’s not bitter if you make it right, and if you drank 3 cups of green tea you STILL wouldn’t have as much caffeine intake as a single cup of coffee.
I still want to know - what kind of green tea did they use? Anyway, here’s the article
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