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Jumping on the green tea bandwagon

I wouldn't put it so harshly Scott, and I would stick to your plan Pat. I'm not a believer in any special health benefits from tea or anything for that matter, because I believe it is more than that.

If you drink 7 cups of green tea but then have a Big Mac for lunch and a Pizza for dinner, I'm sure you have defeated any benefits you'll gain in a week of drinking. I look at the Chinese as a group, and they live a pretty darn long time. So I then look at their diet and lifestyle as a whole and try to determine why. Tea is a part of it I'm sure, and no study needs to tell me that. I'm Italian, most Italians and Mediterranien people live a long time as well and are pretty healthy, same thing. I disect the diet and lifestyle and gain what I can. Indian's are also a long lived people. So I adjust my diet, drink tea, and do my best to adjust the lifestyle which will never happen here in the U.S. in my field especially... and that is what I go for.

I personally don't believe in drinking only fermented teas, fermentation along with bacteria and things like yeast are most likely not always the best to eat... and history and studies can show this. So a steady diet of black tea is probably not the best for your body irregardless of the health benefits from the tea. It is all about balance, and that to me is the key... taking the Yin with the Yang. It is just as UNHEALTHY to unbalance to one side or the other exclusively too much good or too much bad, just shoot for the middle and live the best life you can accepting that.

I'd be just as critical of someone who only drinks green tea, health benefits or not.

- Dominic

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Since, as Scott suggested, although not in my inimitable style, that most of the astounding health benefits derived from any foodstuff is a crock of commercial hogwash, the answer to your question is: Take green tea tablets and make those scoundrels in the vitamin pill companies happy. Seriously, if you don't like green tea, don't drink it. Tomorrow something new will come down the pike, and we'll all scamper over there, making some new food industrialist rich. A balanced diet, a good cigar, and a beer will keep you and your body together for a good long time.

Hope this helps.

Michael

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Michael Plant

i've always thought that what you don't like to have will not be good for your body... out of childish 'i will never take any cheese again, ever...' or things like that, and refered only to food, and not medicines or any artifical compound.

in my case, that is completely true with peppers, i like them very much the thick ones [italians we say], raw in salads. but when cooked, fried, roasted, i don't like at all even the smell, and i know that if i take them won't suit me. with the spanish ones, thiner, and with much more taste and smell is worst. the bad point of that is there are a recipe, 'pimientos del piquillo' [ a kind of peppers cultivated in navarra, in the north of spain ] stuffed with cod, are something you can just say no, thanks... fortunately there are no such temptations all the time ;)

so, as for me, i'd like to know what suits me and what not. having a healthy diet, for me, is a matter of tradition and education. is not something you can learn with a book of recipes in one year, i know because i try all the time ;). having lunch out of your home make it very difficult, for example.

and there is a problem with tradition, it was based on local products. some of them were horrible, and were used because there was no possibility of having others, but with intensive agriculture many just were gone, bad ones, and also good ones, local varietals, that in many cases were extinguished, also animals, particular goat races, or sheeps...

regards from madrid, bonifacio barrio hijosa

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