Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

re: Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

JasonW — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:01:09 GMT

Green tea is the best I use it every morning it adds a pep in my step. I think every body should know about it benefits

re: Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

debbie lh — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:25:23 GMT

I find the articles posted on Mercola.com helpful and informative. The comments posted here are more often a major turn off as so many seem filled with contempt, ridicule of others, sarcasim, hysteria and conspiracy theories. Most of the comments don't seem helpful or informative.

re: Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

jmjatp — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:12:30 GMT

Dr. Mercola,

I believe that green tea has many beneficial effects on us. What I am concerned about the

caffeine in the green tea. Isn't caffeine is bad for us? There are also decaffeinated green teas, however, the process of making it decaffeinated is not good for our health. What do you think of it?

Thank you for the wonderful e-mails your staff has been sending me. I learned so much from you! Thank you, thank you!

Sonie

re: Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

astrolenn — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:53:02 GMT

For all of you that have put in a comment, your responses have been great. It really makes it worthwhile to follow the comments on the Mercola site. It seems like everything has something that isnt good for you, but like everything you need to take everything in moderation. Me I drink loads of coffee and green tea so I'm getting all the good stuff.

re: Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

Pookietooth — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:20:36 GMT

Green tea makes my teeth feel funny.

re: Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

kare4u — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:05:25 GMT

What about white tea? I read it has a higher concentration of antioxidants polyphenols than green tea and because it is the least processed of all teas it does not have the bitterness that green tea has. It is also very low in caffeine. Can anyone confirm this?

re: Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

Rita_Ezri — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:17:48 GMT

green tea helps cells become more receptive to insulin so I am not at all surpised by this. Another reason to keep drinking it, especially matcha which has 8-10 times the antioxidants of regular green tea.
Rita

re: Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

kittycat — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:05:25 GMT

Interesting!

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seg — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:29:19 GMT

AVANDIA simply will not go away eh !!! In time they would wish they had pulled this garbage of the market. I can see the headlines GSK sued again !!!

While green tea is definately one of nature's power houses we have to be cautious as to where it's grown because it can have a high level of fluoride which is counterproductive to one's health.

Clearly PREVENTION is better than the cure, so as far as it's involvement in treating diabetes there are way better options to consider like DIET FOR YOU MET TYPE, PROPER EXERCISE, EMOTIONAL HEALTH, GOOD QUALITY SLEEP, GOOD FAMILY LIFE and you can top it of with a couple cups of CLEAN organic green tea. I think i'll go pour myself a nice cup now......

re: Green Tea as Good as Avandia for Diabetes, Without the Deadly Side Effects

mmc88121 — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:48:53 GMT

So they looked at green tea as a treatment for diabetes 70 years ago according to the article, why did they not use the, the pharmaceutical companies could not make money off of it.

Mary

re: Green Tea as Good as Avandia for Diabetes, Without the Deadly Side Effects

Russ Bianchi — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:00:09 GMT

Look no further than the glorified soda pop out from a Coke/Nestle joint venture, branded ENVIGA, "with ECGC", at nonefficacious parts per million dosages, to sell essentially small amounts of flavor, coloring, sweetened (with toxic sucralose or aspartame, depending on the market) and filtered tap WATER, to find exploitation of this "finding" already.

Hmmmm, trace element amounts of EGCG, mixed with fake colorings/flavors and toxic high intensity sweeteners...???

"Sounds healthy to me, yeah, if we can convince the public with Vitamin Water (non at all metabolized because the trace element amounts are synthetic of the alleged vitamins or minerals and a recent Coke acquisition for over $4 Billion Dollars, per The Wall Street Journal) why not EGCG?!"

This quote comes from a soulless Coke distributor marketing ("Evil Genus") person.

re: Green Tea as Good as Avandia for Diabetes, Without the Deadly Side Effects

Bridestein — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:39:22 GMT

-"A chemical found in green tea helped moderately diabetic mice tolerate sugar"-
Unfortunately people will use this information as a way to have their cake and eat it too.