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- Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8It also goes well with spam
- wild, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Gotta love green tea.
Its like the new wonder drug. Been all over the news lately. Either we have been asleep on is benefits for hundreds of years, or the growers and producers have one hell of a PR department... - clifyt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"NO! It can't. Stop wasting my dam tax money with stupid studies."
By itself, you are absolutely right. I've been drinking tea my entire life and love green tea...yet I'm 35 with occasionally debilitating rhematoid arthritis. Yes, it is anti-inflammatory, but not in sufficient doses to do what is needed (I'd gladly give up my $1000+ a month habit for just another steaming hot tea a day).
At the same time, it is rarely your damn tax dollars that pay for these studies. A new researcher will get start up money from their institution, but it isn't that much, and after the first year, they are required to pretty much find an external sponsor for their research. I know the grants I have gotten have paid for my entire department, rent, money going to other university administrators (I had to pay one 20% of his annual salary for pretty much signing off on the research once every 3 months without even looking at what we were doing), pay grad students to work for me (and subsidize their education by putting them in an area that they will be in after graduating and giving them hands on experience). And all in all -- if we find anything that is useful, the money is split down the middle with the folks that provided the grant and the university (the research rarely gets anything out of it...I think the most we can get is 10% ownership, but even this is theoretical...I got to keep my job with the last discovery and nothing more).
So it really isn't your damn tax money nor are most of these stupid studies (if they are stupid, they won't be marketable and thus not funded externally...most stupid studies are paid for by the professors themselves). - LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I know a therapy for arthritis that's green but it sure as hell isn't Tea :)
- kaiser44, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3so you have all the missing bee's?
- turbopro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I developed some arthritis in my Knee when I had arthroscopic surgery done to my right meniscus several years ago. I started to drink green tea about 2 years ago religiously and can honestly say I not only feel better overall as far as my health, but I have absolutly no pain in my knee that I am supposed to have as a result of my arthritis. As an avid tea drinker, I would just like to state that if you want to get into tea drinking, make sure you brew it! It tastes a whole lot better.
- stinkipete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What ailment doesn't green tea treat?
- edstate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Drink it every day.
- DiggFight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been drinking 1-3 large glasses of green tea every day for a few years now. Unfortunately, I have not seen any benefit to my exercise aggravated arthritis.
- Red_Eye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Add some Bee Venom for sweetener to mine please.
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've got an anecdote about drinking green tea at work.
At a coffee point in my last company I had just made a fresh cuppa green tea, and a colleague from the statistics department who I didn't know very well looked at it and said "EEEUGH. What's that?", so I swiftly replied
"It's URINE - Nature's Elixir!".
He didn't talk to me much after that, but I never liked him much anyway.
I still drink green tea though. - transcendz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As far as I can tell, white tea is a kind of green tea, and should have the same benefits.
- TheWretched, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4This is cool. I wonder if there are similiar benefits with other types of tea; like white tea for instance.
Thanks for the link effektz. It's bookmarked! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@effektz
Why do you single out the Chinese as knowing about tea's benefits? Tea originally came from India. For the record, tea is an Indian word.......from the root word "chai" (sounds similar, one syllable) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea#Origin_and_history - DiggFight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uh oh, no more medical marijuana for potheads with arthritis anymore.
- EmailAddress, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was at this asian food store once and I met a doctor shopping for green tea. He told me that in a few years studies will be published which show how good green tea is. At that point the price of green tea will go up(~$60 he said) because pharmaceuticals will buy large quantities for use in medicines.
- drdan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No Duh!
- edm1950, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That would be ees.
- BigSlacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thought this might be another green tea scam but it looks like actually isolated an active ingredient. Still about 99% of the herbal claims are crap.
- melmic, on 01/14/2009, -0/+0Great post, very informational
- caramelMangoMan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Hi guys I work at a company called Gold Group, and we are currently running a campaign for our client Lipton, meant to call attention to the healthy benefits of tea! The site for the campaign is located at http://www.fightindooritis.com, it features some fun videos and messages you can send to friends, as well as a rebate for up to $15 savings on Lipton teas! We hope you find the site interesting and are able to share it with your friends and readers.
- greaterchina95, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Green tea is definitely good for your health and no one in these thousands of years can prove otherwise. However, it is not definitely not a medicine or elixir. Green tea like all traditional herbs must be taken in a sustained manner with a good balanced diet. Every new finding about green tea or other herbs like tongkat ali, cat whiskers, etc is just a new discovery towards the correcting or maintaining the wellness of human. It might not be just standalone formula finally and need a combination of other herbs like those good image tea but most important is that works for a big community of people around the globe.
Tea does not need to be expensive. So don't get burn with those speculative type like Pu Er tea (普洱茶) which many traders are currently still keeping them, speculating and treating them like stocks.
Anyway, well done for all scientists or instituitions for the continuous study on all herbs. - budsket, on 06/16/2008, -0/+0interesting site, you may also check http://caninearthritisshop.info/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+10Tea is very healthy for you, and the Chinese have known about its benefits for thousands of years. You can find some of the tastiest tea recipes at http://entitea.com - stay healthy!
- kaiser44, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I believe that if you brew green tea with a pinch of pot , you will improve the overall health of body mind and spirit.
- Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Stick with Ganja!
- DiggFight, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Smoke weed every day.
- NeilSkoglund, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1tea is so english and u know it! ktnx
- datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2NO! It can't. Stop wasting my dam tax money with stupid studies.
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