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Green tea benefits memory
- unmole 13y agoA study sponsored by a company that sells green tea drinks with a sample size of 12. Seems legit!
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- foxhill 13y agocertainly, n=12 is not science, it's only a mild improvement on wild conjecture. however, i can't seem to find anything that says the study was funded by a company that sells green tea drinks (or anything that would call the study's impartiality into question)
- dalke 13y agoThe paper is at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-014-3526-1/fulltext.html http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-014-3526-1... . The acknowledgements say: > This study was supported by grants from the Rivella. All authors have agreed to its submission in this form and we do not have any conflict of interests that might be interpreted as influencing its content. The sponsor of the study had no role in study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, writing of this report, and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. Rivella is a milk whey-based soft drink from Switzerland. Green Rivella is flavored with green tea extract. And indeed, in the section on "Composition of test drinks": > Rivella is a commercially available carbonated soft drink on the basis of milk whey. In 1999, a new flavor with a 0.05 % addition of standardized green tea extract was introduced.
- computer 13y agoSigh, blogspam from a non-scientific source, about a study with a tiny sample size. Everything is wrong with this one: The study made them eat 27.5 grams of green tea extract (dissolved in a liquid), then measured brain connectivity by MRI. This MRI-measured brain connectivity was slightly higher, whatever that might mean in practice-- actual memory performance was not measured, it seems. As pretty much always for such articles: the title is incorrect, the findings are probably wrong, and the article was written by someone without scientific understanding and/or integrity.
- foxhill 13y agoindeed, the biggest story is in fact in the discussion of this article - how the hell did you manage to get a username like 'computer' in a place like this?!
- higherpurpose 13y agoI like green ice tea, but normal green tea I can't get used to it, even when mixed with lemon or something - still don't like the taste much.