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Personally, I really can't tell the difference the taste of green tea as opposed to black tea or any other kind of tea. I've had a little experience, not good, with using green tea for dieting. I'll relate my experience along with other details about green tea.
Green Tea for Dieting
A few years ago, I'd say at least eight, I was introduced to something called "Chinese weight loss tea". One of my wife's friends had lost a bit of weight by drinking it and explained to me how it works. She gave me a small cardboard box, colored green, covered with Chinese writing and with the words "diet tea" on one solitary flap.
This green tea came in teabags, not as tea leaves as depicted in the small picture I provided, and it was intended as a hot drink. Since I like hot tea almost as much as I like hot coffee, I tried it for a day. I knew it was supposed to act like a mild laxative, but I could not stay out of the bathroom after drinking it. At least, not until I was completely void of everything in my system.
That was the first and last time I ever messed with anything with the words "diet tea" on it.
Green Tea Detoxification Recipes
I've been reading various articles about green tea being used as the basic ingredient for detoxification. Various forms of "detox tea" can be used to detoxify your liver and your skin. I'm sure there are other detoxifying organs involved, but I haven't read about them yet. Of course, it takes more than green tea by itself to do the job intended.
Most of the detox teas that I've read about don't even include green tea, so it seems to be a bit of a misnomer to me, even if it is a legitimate use of the word "tea".
Green Tea and Old People
While traveling in the orient at various times in my life, I noticed the old folks tended to drink hot, green tea at least a day. I don't know if it contributed to their longevity (I met a Japanese man of over a hundred years old who could get around better than my 75 year-old mother and my 73 year-old mother-in-law), but why take chances?
If something as simple as having a hot cup of green tea every day could increase your lifespan and allow you to live a healthier life at the same time, wouldn't it be worth it to include it as part of your daily diet?
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Green Tea is so miraculously good for health, it makes me wonder why more and more people don't consume it. One cup of green tea a day is a must. I have really grown to love the taste now and prefer it to any other.
Green tea,Green tea!!I was recommended a while ago to drink this and see my weight go down. It's also nice in the mouth with a natural taste of tea. Thanks for sharing.
Just started taking green tea today, love the great taste, and some how feels refreshing. currently weigh 63kg, hope to loose additional 3kg, especially on the belly area. hoping it helps.
plan to take a cup daily and just watch to see if it helps, will give u guys some feedback in a couple of months.
Later
My use for tea is a substitute to coffee. Its a good alternative if you want to avoid coffee.
It seems that a lot of people who have commented here didn't actually read your post. Hearing a bad experience with green tea and then saying they'll try it seems a little strange to me.
I have heard that it can contribute to weight loss though, although I've never tried it. Whatever the truth it's hardly going to cause weight loss by itself. Along with a healthy lifestype maybe.