Green Tea, Weight Loss & Enviga

By releasing the new Green Tea based product Enviga, my opinion is that Coca Cola and Nestle are liable to do more harm than good in the cause of promoting Green Tea.

They appear to be telling us all that by drinking a couple of cans a day (at $1.30 -$1.50 a time) we will benefit from Green Teas’ weight loss properties and the outcome will be slimmer, healthier person on the other side.

The makers claim their drink has negative calories and this counterbalances the other calories you put in your body with your natural food intake.

Well, the Centre for Science in the Public Interest is reported to have filed a false advertising suit against the two companies saying their claims are wrong.

Am I personally surprised? NO!

None of these companies realise that Green Tea is not now, and never has been, a quick fix for any of lifes’ ailments.

Drinking Green Tea is a way of life. Its properties are indisputable. Its regeneration powers have been proven over thousands of years and if you drink regularly and over a consistently long period then many things which ail you will at least be helped or maybe prevented all together.

Already newspapers, in the hunt for headlines, are coming out against Green Tea. I recently read on headline which said “Want to lose weight? Green Tea won’t do it”

This headline was meant as a specific strike against the product “Enviga” but all people will remember in a couple of months is the bad publicity and they will associate it with all Green Tea products.

The hijacking of Green Tea by major corporations as a quick fix was predictable considering the amount of good publicity Green Tea has had in the last few years, but my sincere hope is that in the chase for their profits they do not soil the good name of Green Tea, so that many future potential users do not come on board and start drinking this wonderful brew.

It will be down to current users of Green Tea to keep using and promoting the benefits of Green Tea by word of mouth and keep the forward momentum of the use of Green Tea going strong.

Mike Linder

Mike Linder is the author of The Complete Guide to Green Tea which can be found @ http://http://www.benefitsdrinkinggreentea.com/ and also edits a Blog about Green Tea which can be found at http://www.greenteastories.blogspot.com/

Green Tea Extract to Help in the Fight against Lung Cancer?

Scientists have reported that Green Tea extract could soon inspire the creation of new drugs to help in the fight against lung cancer.

Researchers included Qing-Yi Lu, PhD, of the Centre for Human Nutrition at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), have tested Green Tea extract on human lung cancer cells in test tubes, not humans, but the results have been encouraging.

The sample of human lung cancer cells was exposed to a decaffeinated Green Tea extract, by marinating it for 3 days in the extract.

The Green Tea extract remodelled a certain protein in the cancer cells, and as a result the cancer cells became more likely to stick together and less likely to move, the study shows.

Antioxidants in green tea may have tweaked the cancer cell protein, but it's not clear whether one antioxidant deserves all the credit or whether several antioxidants worked together, the researchers note.

The study doesn't prove that drinking green tea curbs lung cancer in people. However, it may be possible to make new lung cancer drugs based on green tea extract, Lu's team suggests. Such drugs would target the lung cancer protein remodelled by the green tea extract in the lab tests.

Mike Linder

Mike Linder is the author of the definitive guide to all green teas and their health benefits. www.benefitsdrinkinggreentea.com