OrleansLink
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Could people be so kind as to give us some specific places or specific kinds to buy?
Or do I just go to any store and ask for "Green Tea"
Or do I just go to any store and ask for "Green Tea"
Weight-Loss Green Tea Info
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sirant
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No trouble finding green tea these days...
Everybody is selling green tea now.
It is the new healthy "buzz word", and many many companies are capitalizing off of it. You could go to a specialty tea shop and pay some bigger bucks for some fancier leaves and much more selection, or you could simply go to your neighborhood grocery store, as most of the major tea producers (Lipton for example) are now making different varieties of Green tea. However, do becareful with the premade bottled stuff, as some of those ones will have just as much sugar and crap inside them as a bottle of coke.
And also remember, tea is tea is tea. There really is no need to go hardcore and buy the most expensive and fancy teas you can find. In fact tea ALL comes from one plant, aside from herbal, fruit and flower teas of course. Black tea, Red Tea, Green Tea and Oolong are all the same tea. The difference comes from how the leaves are dried, roasted or prepared. That is what gives them the different colors and flavours. Green tea is one of the freshest, dried naturally without roasting. Oolong is partially roasted and black tea is fully roasted. Tea's value is also measured in where it is grown and at what altitude. Since I live in China I am learning a heck of a lot about tea. I can go into one of hundreds of little neighborhood tea shops and the owners will quickly run over to do a traditional tea ceremony with me and explain the virtues and history of all the teas in the shop, offering me samples as I go. Hours can be spent simply deciding which type of tea I should buy a small pack of today.
Fine tea enthusiasts can tell the difference between teas grown in different regions, but when it all comes down to it, find the one you like and go with that. Remember, in the long run tea is simpy leaves in water. Nothing more.
One tea that is renowned here as a miracle worker for weight loss and detoxification is a tea called "Puh Er" (pronounced "Poo Are"). It can be a very expensive tea here and historically, due to its value, was actually used as a currency in China for some time. It is often sold in hard bricks you need to pry the leaves off of and break apart. It does taste wonderful and you can steep it till the water is black as coffee and it wont get bitter. However don't drink too much. Unlike green tea, which you could drink till the cows come home, too much Puh Er Tea will not just detoxify you, it will act as a laxative and have you running to powder your nose more often than usual.
Maybe thats where the "Puh" part of the name came from......
sirant
Everybody is selling green tea now.
It is the new healthy "buzz word", and many many companies are capitalizing off of it. You could go to a specialty tea shop and pay some bigger bucks for some fancier leaves and much more selection, or you could simply go to your neighborhood grocery store, as most of the major tea producers (Lipton for example) are now making different varieties of Green tea. However, do becareful with the premade bottled stuff, as some of those ones will have just as much sugar and crap inside them as a bottle of coke.
And also remember, tea is tea is tea. There really is no need to go hardcore and buy the most expensive and fancy teas you can find. In fact tea ALL comes from one plant, aside from herbal, fruit and flower teas of course. Black tea, Red Tea, Green Tea and Oolong are all the same tea. The difference comes from how the leaves are dried, roasted or prepared. That is what gives them the different colors and flavours. Green tea is one of the freshest, dried naturally without roasting. Oolong is partially roasted and black tea is fully roasted. Tea's value is also measured in where it is grown and at what altitude. Since I live in China I am learning a heck of a lot about tea. I can go into one of hundreds of little neighborhood tea shops and the owners will quickly run over to do a traditional tea ceremony with me and explain the virtues and history of all the teas in the shop, offering me samples as I go. Hours can be spent simply deciding which type of tea I should buy a small pack of today.
Fine tea enthusiasts can tell the difference between teas grown in different regions, but when it all comes down to it, find the one you like and go with that. Remember, in the long run tea is simpy leaves in water. Nothing more.
One tea that is renowned here as a miracle worker for weight loss and detoxification is a tea called "Puh Er" (pronounced "Poo Are"). It can be a very expensive tea here and historically, due to its value, was actually used as a currency in China for some time. It is often sold in hard bricks you need to pry the leaves off of and break apart. It does taste wonderful and you can steep it till the water is black as coffee and it wont get bitter. However don't drink too much. Unlike green tea, which you could drink till the cows come home, too much Puh Er Tea will not just detoxify you, it will act as a laxative and have you running to powder your nose more often than usual.
Maybe thats where the "Puh" part of the name came from......
sirant
patsfan
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I've been taking it for several weeks and I'm not sure about the appetite suppressing aspect but I take it about 2 hours before hitting the gym and it has definitely given me an extra boost to workout. It feels like an extra store that is available to keep me going for 50-60 minutes on the elliptical.....of course, if you have caffeine issues (jitteryness, heart palpitations, etc.) it may not be wise to use!
SunnySweetpea
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They talk abut sweetners in the diet book I'm reading.. Yes, Splenda looks ok right now, but it also has the least amt. of research on it. It's also "the best one to use for cooking" per the book; Aspartame (NutraSweet) hangs out the longest in your body the longest, may inhibit your brain from usign some vitamins, antioxidants and magnisium--and gets converted into formaldehyde in your body! (ewww!), Saccharin (I believe that's Sweet n' Low) actually seems ok in small doses (I thought it was all bad) but if you drink more than 80 12 oz diet sodas a day , you can get bladder cancer. Oh, and a note to those of you who use Stevia, apparently it can lower sperm count. Agave necter is natural and super sweet so you need less of it to get the same sweetness of sugar (I've never tried it, so I don't know) I'm a refined sugar girl all the way, I just watch how much I use (waits to be hit on the head with peoples cyber scales).
I got the above from page 98 of You on a Diet. I'm getting a lot of info from there these days, so I might end up referencing the book a lot.
sirant
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Ok, I gotta know..... Diet Green Tea??
Ok, I have seen it here mentioned a few times, but I just gotta ask....
What in the heck is Diet Green Tea??? In my somewhat expansive knowledge of teas I have gained in the past 3 years living in China I have never ever heard of such a thing. I mean green tea is dried leaves, dipped in water. 0 calories, 0 fat, 0 carbs...... Only lots of flavour and healthy side effects. So what could possibly be done to make it "Diet"? Appetite suppresants? Fat burners? Extra caffeine? Thats like selling Diet Water.....
Any body heard of this or tried it?
I know they are selling "wulong tea" online, which is simply oolong tea at a ridiculous price, but Diet Green Tea? Makes no sense to me....
Speaking of this, has anyone tried that new "protein water"? Also sounds like another way for the soda industries to capitalize off of an ever "growing" population......
sirant
Ok, I have seen it here mentioned a few times, but I just gotta ask....
What in the heck is Diet Green Tea??? In my somewhat expansive knowledge of teas I have gained in the past 3 years living in China I have never ever heard of such a thing. I mean green tea is dried leaves, dipped in water. 0 calories, 0 fat, 0 carbs...... Only lots of flavour and healthy side effects. So what could possibly be done to make it "Diet"? Appetite suppresants? Fat burners? Extra caffeine? Thats like selling Diet Water.....
Any body heard of this or tried it?
I know they are selling "wulong tea" online, which is simply oolong tea at a ridiculous price, but Diet Green Tea? Makes no sense to me....
Speaking of this, has anyone tried that new "protein water"? Also sounds like another way for the soda industries to capitalize off of an ever "growing" population......
sirant
exactly what holly said...
if it's premixed stuff like what Arizona or Snapple sell...
otherwise there's a tea that's sold at GNC and other "health" food stores that's a Dieter's Tea that the primary ingredient in it is a laxative...
if it's premixed stuff like what Arizona or Snapple sell...
otherwise there's a tea that's sold at GNC and other "health" food stores that's a Dieter's Tea that the primary ingredient in it is a laxative...
sirant
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Ha ha! Pooping tea!
Sells like hot cakes here! I got a box of it sitting on my shelf right now. I of course don't use it for weight loss, but holy mackerel!! If you ever get plugged up, this stuff will clean you out in a jiff! I would never use it 2 times daily as the package recommends, but if you drink it at 10 o'clock at night, you will be very rudely awoken at 4am..... *speaking from oh so personal experience*
As for Green Tea with Aspartame..... Interesting idea, but I suspect drinking the real stuff is just too much better to consider other options... I will stick to that.
Plus here it would never fly, So I would never see it anyways. You can only get diet coke and diet pepsi here as far as diet soda goes. Lots of sugary options, but only 2 diet ones period. Kind of odd that.
Thanks everyone, question answered.
sirant
Sells like hot cakes here! I got a box of it sitting on my shelf right now. I of course don't use it for weight loss, but holy mackerel!! If you ever get plugged up, this stuff will clean you out in a jiff! I would never use it 2 times daily as the package recommends, but if you drink it at 10 o'clock at night, you will be very rudely awoken at 4am..... *speaking from oh so personal experience*
As for Green Tea with Aspartame..... Interesting idea, but I suspect drinking the real stuff is just too much better to consider other options... I will stick to that.
Plus here it would never fly, So I would never see it anyways. You can only get diet coke and diet pepsi here as far as diet soda goes. Lots of sugary options, but only 2 diet ones period. Kind of odd that.
Thanks everyone, question answered.
sirant
Diet Green Tea is a marketing ploy to get people to buy more tea. Most brands do not have sugar, so if you like green tea, this is a lower calorie option.
The bigger issue is that green tea's health benefits have been overhyped. The FDA has found no credible evidence that green tea reduces the risk of heart disease and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that green does not reduce the risk of cancer.
The bigger issue is that green tea's health benefits have been overhyped. The FDA has found no credible evidence that green tea reduces the risk of heart disease and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that green does not reduce the risk of cancer.
ToothlessFerret
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Tea shipped with sugar or sweetener added to it? How quaint. What a bizarre idea. I stopped taking sugar with tea when I was 12 years old. Once you force the habit, tea tastes absolutely disgusting with sugar.
its usually sold with the sodas - and it's served iced.. ya'all in europe haven't gotten on board with the iced tea concept yet and no self respecting southernor would drink unsweetened ice tea (at least from what i'm told In fact I think that's why the civil war was fought...
sweet tea is very common...
and no self respecting southernor would drink unsweetened ice tea (at least from what i'm told In fact I think that's why the civil war was fought... sweet tea is very common...
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brunettegoddess
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I think the protein water thing is c-r-a-p. crap. A bottle of the Special K protein water came with some cereal I bought and it's got a whopping 7 grams of protein!!! Ok, it might be six. But anyone who buys that, it goes to show they haven't a clue about anything. You could get that many grams in one slice of cheese, in some milk. Heck, a serving of any sort of meat usually has about 3 times that much. It's a gimmic. And some genius is out there getting rich off of all of the idiots
TomO
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Of course, in most cities in the US, bottled water itself is a ripoff. Generally, tap water is more regulated and better for you than bottled water. On top of that, a lot of bottled water is actually nothing more than bottled tap water! I think I read somewhere that Coke's bottled water is actually Detroit's tap water.
Sorry -- didn't mean to get off the subject so much!
Sorry -- didn't mean to get off the subject so much!
yeah but dasani water or of the filtered waters are just gross - there's a much better cleaner flavor to spring water...
What? You mean everyone else is not from Louisiana? J/K
I have practically lived on iced tea since I was little. Our frig is always stocked with 2 full jugs of sweetened iced tea (black tea) that I brew myself. I will drink maybe 8oz. of this each day since it is sweetened with real sugar. The diet green tea is a nice tea alternative for me when I want something besides water and milk.
J/KI have practically lived on iced tea since I was little. Our frig is always stocked with 2 full jugs of sweetened iced tea (black tea) that I brew myself. I will drink maybe 8oz. of this each day since it is sweetened with real sugar. The diet green tea is a nice tea alternative for me when I want something besides water and milk.
ToothlessFerret
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Ahhh iced tea....
Not quite true Mal, there are areas where ice tea is popular - Portugal for example - and as we have a large Portuguese community in my little town, iced tea is a popular concept - along would you believe with good coffee (Portuguese and Brazilian).
that's good to know when i get back to europe last time i was there the coffee was rancid and the ice was non-existant..
last time i was there the coffee was rancid and the ice was non-existant.. 
Venice girl
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that's good to know when i get back to europe
He he he, that's funny...last time I went to America coffee was watery and there was way too much ice in my soda... I guess we're just different.
sirant
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I don't think green tea suppressed hunger per say...
But it did work for me in getting over my prior late night binging and cravings. I have always had a problem of eating HEAPS of food at night and then not eating breakfast and sometimes lunch the next day. When I tried to stop that and get control over my binge eating, I had a hell of a time. But what actually cured me, (and I mean completely cured those late night cravings) was getting into the habit of drinking a big cup of green tea in the early evening. Of course green tea is very good for you, but it may have been more a matter of keeping my hands and mouth busy sipping a nice hot drink over an extended period that kept me from the cravings, more so than suppressing apetite. I prefer it to just drinking water, since when I am hungry I will tend to gulp down the water in order to fill up quickly, but then the hungry comes back just as quickly. Hot green tea (or other tea for that matter) kept my mouth and mind active enough to forget about eating. It made all the difference.
sirant
But it did work for me in getting over my prior late night binging and cravings. I have always had a problem of eating HEAPS of food at night and then not eating breakfast and sometimes lunch the next day. When I tried to stop that and get control over my binge eating, I had a hell of a time. But what actually cured me, (and I mean completely cured those late night cravings) was getting into the habit of drinking a big cup of green tea in the early evening. Of course green tea is very good for you, but it may have been more a matter of keeping my hands and mouth busy sipping a nice hot drink over an extended period that kept me from the cravings, more so than suppressing apetite. I prefer it to just drinking water, since when I am hungry I will tend to gulp down the water in order to fill up quickly, but then the hungry comes back just as quickly. Hot green tea (or other tea for that matter) kept my mouth and mind active enough to forget about eating. It made all the difference.
sirant