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Good grief! Why not drink green tea if you're interested in the positive effects of green tea? Apart from its positive effects it's a fantastic drink.

ianai 8y ago
I wish we knew the equivalent amount of green tea he was taking.
- tluyben2 8y ago
  Must be an awful lot... Why do people when they read ‘x is good for you’ or ‘x might cure y’ go completely overboard. We had these ‘fasting might help prevent Alzheimer’ and the articles contain something about 24 hours low calory etc; then I read HN and Reddit and see people, responding to the article, doing 2 weeks water fast saying it is da bomb. There was an article about coffee preventing (...) liver cancer; people responding eating packs of raw coffee beans, drinking liters of coffee etc. All vitamin news is the same; people taking handsful of then dangerous amounts of vitamins. Moderately seems key to all.
  - CaptainZapp 8y ago
    There's only one word that wants to make me yell at my flat screen more than super food And that would be influencer
- imtringued 8y ago
  Probably slightly more than 6 cups per pill if we assume that each pill contains 500mg catechins. The daily limit for someone who weighs 70kg is around 700mg which means one pill per day is the maximum.
zone411 8y ago
Umm because the studies that showed positive effects were not from drinking green tea but from concentrated supplements.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  Absolutely not true at all.
  - zone411 8y ago
    How many studies should I show you that use green tea _extract_, not green tea? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30174618 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30174618 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29429153 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29429153 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904061 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904061 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28585735 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28585735 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27806972 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27806972 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27062963 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27062963 etc. Even studies with just "Green Tea" in their titles use green tea extracts: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27797683 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27797683 It's obvious that the public would not be interested in green tea without all the studies using concentrated green tea extracts.
    - CaptainZapp 8y ago
      You're aware that beta carotene, which was hailed as a super food suplement before the term even existet turned out to be carcinogenic? Uups! I'm not a food scientist, but believe it's extremely problematic to focus on one component or ingredient of something, which is a rather complex combination of a lot of ingredients in a product. Green tea extract may not act the same as actual green tea for umteen reasons. Another point is cultural context. I'm convinced (and may be talking out of my arse, but I'm still convinced) that part of what makes something like the mediterrean diet successful is cultural context. People take the time to sit down to lunch and dinner. And this matters. If you try to repackage the exact same ingredients and wolf it down in 10 minutes in front of a tv, or during lunch at your desk it's not the same thing and does not provide the same benefits. You're free to put me down as some esotheric crank. But my conviction is that a healthy diet is a mixture of not too much crap and sometimes a bit crap, because it's fun and makes you feel good and gives you pleasure. Nutrition, in my opinion, is much more complex than the ingredients that you put into your body. edit: A couple spellos

ianai 8y ago

I wish we knew the equivalent amount of green tea he was taking.

tluyben2 8y ago
Must be an awful lot... Why do people when they read ‘x is good for you’ or ‘x might cure y’ go completely overboard. We had these ‘fasting might help prevent Alzheimer’ and the articles contain something about 24 hours low calory etc; then I read HN and Reddit and see people, responding to the article, doing 2 weeks water fast saying it is da bomb. There was an article about coffee preventing (...) liver cancer; people responding eating packs of raw coffee beans, drinking liters of coffee etc. All vitamin news is the same; people taking handsful of then dangerous amounts of vitamins. Moderately seems key to all.
- CaptainZapp 8y ago
  There's only one word that wants to make me yell at my flat screen more than super food And that would be influencer
imtringued 8y ago
Probably slightly more than 6 cups per pill if we assume that each pill contains 500mg catechins. The daily limit for someone who weighs 70kg is around 700mg which means one pill per day is the maximum.

zone411 8y ago

Umm because the studies that showed positive effects were not from drinking green tea but from concentrated supplements.

SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
Absolutely not true at all.
- zone411 8y ago
  How many studies should I show you that use green tea _extract_, not green tea? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30174618 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30174618 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29429153 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29429153 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904061 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904061 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28585735 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28585735 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27806972 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27806972 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27062963 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27062963 etc. Even studies with just "Green Tea" in their titles use green tea extracts: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27797683 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27797683 It's obvious that the public would not be interested in green tea without all the studies using concentrated green tea extracts.
  - CaptainZapp 8y ago
    You're aware that beta carotene, which was hailed as a super food suplement before the term even existet turned out to be carcinogenic? Uups! I'm not a food scientist, but believe it's extremely problematic to focus on one component or ingredient of something, which is a rather complex combination of a lot of ingredients in a product. Green tea extract may not act the same as actual green tea for umteen reasons. Another point is cultural context. I'm convinced (and may be talking out of my arse, but I'm still convinced) that part of what makes something like the mediterrean diet successful is cultural context. People take the time to sit down to lunch and dinner. And this matters. If you try to repackage the exact same ingredients and wolf it down in 10 minutes in front of a tv, or during lunch at your desk it's not the same thing and does not provide the same benefits. You're free to put me down as some esotheric crank. But my conviction is that a healthy diet is a mixture of not too much crap and sometimes a bit crap, because it's fun and makes you feel good and gives you pleasure. Nutrition, in my opinion, is much more complex than the ingredients that you put into your body. edit: A couple spellos