Green Tea in Complete Balanced Nutritional Supplements is a Good Place to Start
By: Valerie Rosenbaum
Submitted: 2009-04-08 03:50:26 | Word Count: 524
The way some reporters make it sound, green tea and health are synonymous. Some self proclaimed experts make it sound like a magic weight loss pill. One of them claims that coffee drinkers can lose 10 pounds in six weeks by switching to green tea. Another group says that five cups per day will help your burn 70 80 extra calories per day. That would work out to about a pound in six weeks.
There is some truth to the claims made by supplement manufacturers and tea distributors. But, the truth about weight loss is this. There are hundreds of different diet pills and weight loss drugs on the market, but none of them work on their own.
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If you are overweight, it probably has very little to do with how much you are eating, but with “what” you are eating. If you’re like most people, you are eating foods that are high in calories and low in nutritive value. If you suffer from cravings and tend to overeat, there are nutrients missing from your diet. You can benefit from a well designed multi nutritional supplement.
Of course, the research concerning green tea and health has not focused solely on weight loss. Like most of today’s research, the primary focus has been cancer. The catechins in the camellia sinensis plant, from which the tea leaves are taken, have been shown to have a variety of anti cancer activities. One of them is very interesting and completely contradicts what the media and the so called experts have said.
There is an enzyme that researchers refer to as fatty acid synthase N or FASN. FASN is suspected of being an “oncogene”, a gene that when mutated or present at high levels turns a normal cell into a cancer cell. Inhibiting FASN has been investigated as a component of chemotherapy, but the inhibitors have caused weight loss and anorexia, an undesirable side effect for the cancer patient.
In one study concerning green tea and health, researchers found that catechins inhibit FASN in animals, without inducing weight loss. Catechins have been shown to lower cholesterol levels, reduce the waist size of people with type II diabetes, improve the secretion of insulin and inhibit the formation of blood clots. They have anti inflammatory activity and in animals have been shown to prevent rheumatoid arthritis.
There is plenty of evidence from studies concerning green tea and health to make the following statement. It reduces your risk of prostate or breast cancer. There is not enough evidence to say much else about it “conclusively”. Even in the area of cancer prevention, the evidence is only “strong”, not conclusive.
It is safe to say that it is a good ingredient for a supplement to contain. But, there are other extracts that have much stronger evidence concerning the benefit of supplementation. Try to find a supplement that contains olive leaf, curcumin, grape seed, black cumin, bilberry, milk thistle, pine bark, ginger, gingko biloba and myrrh.
We may learn more about green tea and health, as time goes by, but one thing will not change. It’s only one important antioxidant. There are many others.
Author Resource:-
Valerie Rosenbaum has spent many years researching the many anti aging supplements on the market today. As a result of that effort she has found what she believes to be the best anti-aging supplements available. Learn about what she discovered at her website http://www.NaturalBalanceSupplements.com
