Power of Green tea - Page 2

**ksan** · 09-30-2007, 08:22 PM

I had a big cup of green tea this afternoon (after reading this thread)... i dont ussually drink it every day but i recieved some green tea from Japan and it tastes good... I agree with Vapor though... it is an aquired tast

vapor · 09-30-2007, 08:44 PM

ksan, I will bring you some corn tea if you want to give that a whirl!!

vapor

**Olrac** · 10-01-2007, 08:07 AM

My company does a lot of bussiness with Korea and we allways get lots of ginseng tea, as a present.
I tried it a few times but I don't like the taste.
I gave it to my sensei (guess he has enough for a few years now)

Spirit · 10-01-2007, 12:52 PM

Corn, is a product that does not break down in our system.
It is a food that has no value to us as humans...
So I wonder if corn tea is or would have the same value as corn in solid form?

vapor · 10-01-2007, 03:22 PM

I am not so sure of the preparation before the corn gets into the package of tea...but my opinion, is that it just kind of gives the water a bit of color, and a tad bit of taste....

(It is very similar in appearance, and for all matters taste, with barley tea....just makes your home smell a wee bit like popcorn when the tea is boiling in the pot!)

vapor

Salvador G. Ebreo Jr. · 10-06-2007, 01:06 PM

Osu to everyone,thanks for the imformation Daisukey san,about the "power of Green Tea"..i had the opportunity to taste original green tea during our stay in Nagasaki when i join our ship last,july 22,2007,and it taste and smell so good..so i include it to my appetite everyday!!...

OSU!
Salvador,

StarKodama · 10-07-2007, 01:51 AM

In my office there's free green tea at arm's reach all the time, so I drink 2-3 cups a day. One of the benefits of working in Japan!

I just drink it cos I like the taste... I had heard it was good for you, but I had no idea it was THAT good! Thanks for the info!

vapor · 10-07-2007, 02:24 AM

Star Kodama, please don't tell me that you are a full blown OL, and serve the tea to the men in the office!!!

I would expect that you would be telling people to make it for you!

vapor

StarKodama · 10-07-2007, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by vapor

Star Kodama, please don't tell me that you are a full blown OL, and serve the tea to the men in the office!!!

I would expect that you would be telling people to make it for you!

vapor

Of course not!! I actually teach Engrish at a girls' junior and senior high school. My students all know about my karate alter-ego and they think it's cool!

But I have to make my own tea.

**ksan** · 10-08-2007, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by vapor

ksan, I will bring you some corn tea if you want to give that a whirl!!

vapor

Great Stuff Vapor-san,

Let me know the exact times for when ur over

Osu

vapor · 10-08-2007, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ksan

Great Stuff Vapor-san,

Let me know the exact times for when ur over

Osu

Should be oct 23-27th (leaving on the 28th for Geneva)

vapor

Tigeress · 10-08-2007, 05:38 PM

i love green tea! and also my sensei always tells me to drink it before traing to boost energy.. also white tea is very good and has alot of similar benefits to the green tea.

Tameshigiri · 10-12-2007, 09:11 PM

We have green tea and others too in our dojo front desk My daugther will be so happy to serve you a tea cup. I think is the best drink before and after training.

OSU

Spirit · 10-13-2007, 01:04 PM

On th news yesterday
"Tea helps with building strong bones"
Now this could be a marketing play from the tea companies to help with a falling sales ???

seienchin · 10-13-2007, 02:47 PM

Well, it appears to be legitimately reporting an article recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This study was carried out at the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

Tea drinking is associated with benefits on bone d...[Am J Clin Nutr. 2007] - PubMed Result

My summation from the material presented in the abstract is that it was based on findings in a group of women aged 70 to 85 years, so it is a little difficult to be sure that these findings can be generalised to other people. Also, it appears to have been an "add-on" to a study that was really looking at whether calcium supplements helped bone density, and was based on them recalling their tea intake. It is also unclear whether allowance was made for the calcium in the milk that they added to tea.

So it looks interesting, but I won't be investing in tea shares just yet - not until I can read the full article.

Spirit · 10-14-2007, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seienchin

Well, it appears to be legitimately reporting an article recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This study was carried out at the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

Tea drinking is associated with benefits on bone d...[Am J Clin Nutr. 2007] - PubMed Result

My summation from the material presented in the abstract is that it was based on findings in a group of women aged 70 to 85 years, so it is a little difficult to be sure that these findings can be generalised to other people. Also, it appears to have been an "add-on" to a study that was really looking at whether calcium supplements helped bone density, and was based on them recalling their tea intake. It is also unclear whether allowance was made for the calcium in the milk that they added to tea.

So it looks interesting, but I won't be investing in tea shares just yet - not until I can read the full article.

Alls fine and good seienchin, but I'm a skeptic to all these "reports and studies" done by collages and independent firms who depend on their funding by the companies they are doing the studies for???

Humans have walked this earth in their present form for 150,000 -200,000 years and millions of years in evolutionary forms before that. They had no medicine's, no clothing, no supermarkets, no Dr's, no divine interventions, or anything but their wits, and the raw, uncooked foods at hand. Man evolved into todays thinker do to their actions, needs and environment. Sometimes I think a little less studies and a little more common sense.

seienchin · 10-14-2007, 10:32 PM

Well Spirit - we agree, and we disagree.

I do smell a rat in this "study", but I'm not sure why I do. I actually tried to find out if the study had been funded from any dodgy source, but without the full article I couldn't tell.

I don't know if I made it clear in my earlier post, but I am more than a little skeptical about this one. It looks to me either like publishing for motives other than the value of the science (publishing to keep one's publication count up, for example, or because it is a requirement of a course etc), or it has been sponsored by a body with an ulterior motive.

In my experience, incompetence is much, much more common than conspiracy, so I tend to give people who publish dodgy science the benefit of the doubt- that is, I won't doubt their integrity, but I will trash their science!

(I wil be suggesting to older women that it MIGHT help them, but I don't think it can be generalised to other groups, or given certainty).

And yes, we would all be much, much healthier if we ate unprocessed, raw, healthy foods. (but honestly, for me, this only applies to vegetarian food). Raw meats and offal carry too many bugs for my taste).The public just don't seem to want to hear this message in amongst the prolific advertising of the junk food chains.

If I could be emperess of the universe (Hmmm, I feel a new set of clothes for my avatar coming on...), I would totally ban advertising for all processed foods, cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, hmmmm..

but we are doing something right - life expectancy has risen from about 50 to about 80, so it's not all doom and gloom. I just dream of a world where everyone has benefit of that health, and those 80 years are good years, not years filled with disease and medical interventions to the hilt.

Back to topic - if I have read your posts correctly, you were also a little skeptical about this study, expressing a concern that it had been funded by some lobby group or other. I share your concern, but that doesn't mean I won't still look at the reasearch on its merits. And I did, and it didn't seem to stack, up, IMHO.

Spirit · 10-15-2007, 12:37 PM

Yes... on all!!!

feels · 10-15-2007, 12:41 PM

Most of the tea sold in the American supermarkets are processed, no? How much of that tea remains to be significantly beneficial?

Spirit · 10-15-2007, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by feels

Most of the tea sold in the American supermarkets are processed, no? How much of that tea remains to be significantly beneficial?

That is why I drink organic tea and have started to grow my own herbs for tea.

And if you are going to ask that qustion about tea, then the same should be asked about your food as well?!

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