This went nowhere so I want to ask again about this- Green Tea and the various pills extracting & concentrating all the healthful substances therein.
A friend recently got a sample of a new product called Green Tea HP, the website for which is barely developed, and says that it does indeed boost her energy but
the cost for a month’s supply would be $70. However, it concentrates the good stuff so that it evens out to the cost of regular green tea.
SO generally I’m asking for both experiences & knowledge about green tea & its various other incarnations.
As I have often mentioned to my daughter regarding weight-loss supplements – if they actually worked, there wouldn’t be any fat people in the world. Trust me here – they’re all a joke. The only diet aids that have any validity (and only on a very limited basis) are the ones that a) are speed (which only helps if you use the speed to increase your activity level without also increasing your food intake) and the ones that b) make you feel full (I have heard some people having limited success with trimspa) but again, only if you use this effect to your advantage.
As far as green tea goes – I drink it all the time. Love green tea, even like white tea, can’t stand the normal stuff (gag!). I don’t lose weight any easier, I have no more energy with it than without and I am pretty sure I am not getting younger by the minute. Do I think it’s healthier than the regular, brown iced tea? Well, yeh, the way I drink it (without sugar, using splenda or honey to sweeten it). In pill form? Why bother – I have enough pills that actually do help my health that I have to take everyday.
You want to be healthier? Eat a balanced diet, eat less than you burn and get some exercise. No pill is going to do that for you. You know, I once gave a friend all of my sugar pills from my birth control packs and told her that they were “speed” – she was “high” for weeks on them. If you believe the pills will give you more energy, they will. I’m just sayin’…
I bet you those green tea pills have high amounts of caffeine in them and that is what is giving you that “high”. Many “weight-loss products” contain caffeine or some other stimulant in them.
I don’t recommend it. You’ll develop a caffeine dependence and its effects on your body could wear off over time as you develop a resistance.
I have two cups of green tea every morning - on weekdays, at least - and I’m always healthy. OTOH, I’ve been healthy my whole life, so this may have nothing to do with it. I think I didn’t miss a day of school from 7th grade to end of grad school, and have missed much less than one day a year since I’ve been working. I drink Tazo tea, Starbuck’s brand, love it. Seem to remember that it leads to less cancer and heart disease but I can’t remember. And I agree with the consensus of above posts on trying it in pill form. OTOH I take fish oil and calcium with vitamin D in pill form, but never expected a miracle from either. GL, stay healthy.
There is a new OTC weight loss pill coming out this month that is a half-strength version of prescription medication called Xenical. It works by limiting the amount of fat you absorb from the food you eat. Bad news is: if you don’t digest the fat, it just sort of slides…through…your digestive system. And straight into your pants. But evidently about 30-50% of test subjects reported a 5% loss in body mass, and only gained back 35% of what they lost, compared to 70% gained back by those in the placebo group.
With the unhappy side effects of a high fat diet, obviously there’s a conditioning effect that will force you to change what types of food you eat. So take that for what it’s worth, whether the pill actually helps you lose weight or just encourages you to eat less fat.
-foxy
I don’t see how that logically follows.
Mind you, I’m not trying to defend these weight-loss supplements. I’m sure that most, if not all of them, make overblown claims. However, I do think it’s inaccurate to state that if they truly worked, there would be no fat people in the world – or even that none of their users would be fat.