If I had a nickel for every time I heard thatâŚ
Green tea does contain caffeine and tannins, both of which have been shown in numerous studies to improve weight loss. I think youâd have to drink a lot of green tea to get enough of either to make a statistically significant impact though. I donât think you could ever drink enough to overcome a sedentary lifestyle with poor diet.
Obviously exercise and eating properly are the key.
One area that is actually really promising in regards to weight regulation is the studies in gut flora transplants. I think we are going to see some real tangible advances from those studies.
Why do you hate christmas?!?! 
Thatâs why God gave us two hands.
The study shows that, in whatever quantities they were giving it, green tea wasnât a substance that promoted weight loss, caffeine and tannins be damned.
I think a lot of comments here provide various reasons why we should all think that if we make a point of drinking more green tea, we might expect some kind of weight loss. Maybe drinking more water will make us less hungry, maybe weâll be drinking the tea instead of something else that was loaded with sugar, maybe just paying attention to what we are putting in our mouths will help. Behavioural changes, when actually sustained (they usually arenât) can make a difference, But choosing green tea over, say, black tea, doesnât (unless it turns out black tea promotes weight gain⌠wouldnât that be a twist).
Obviously its the rice not the tea! Duh! 
You caught me. I actually DO hate Christmas. Well, at least all the âChristmasâ that happens the entire gorram month of November.
Ha! You will also see a more active lifestyle, a family that mercilessly rags on you for being overweight and healthier food choices. To pick green tea as the deciding factor is ludicrous. Fat shaming is a thing, across China, Vietnam and Singapore at the least from my experience. There was a Vietnamese girl who participated in my high school foreign exchange program, she developed a little belly fat during her time living with a host family in the southwest. When she went to live with an uncle in another part of the US, they actually withheld food from her until she shrunk to her bones. Still true to this day, 12 years later. She moved off on her own to Florida for a time, gained weight, moved back in with the relatives, lost it again. My wifeâs mother rags her constantly to ânot swell up like those American women.â
The secret formula for Asian health is better food and an active lifestyle. Barring that, itâs anorexia.
Apparently green tea is not one of them; but we have ways of making you lose weight without dietary change. Yes, this isnât a terribly good idea; but making your metabolism less efficient will reduce the impact of calories consumed. It might also lead you to cook your brain, which would be bad; but itâd be a very slimming sort of coma.
âThe gods gave you two hands; and you use them both for your beverage. I can respect that.â
Water kills!
I hear death results in long term weight loss.
How else am I gonna drink two beers at the same time?
Every drink genmaicha? Itâs both rice and tea. Itâs lovely.
Geez, I only wish you the best of luck in treatment. That sucks. I have a similar reaction to bullshit. At my local organic co-op, they sell apricot seeds as a âsupplement.â Theyâre basically a source of amygdalin, and theyâre also basically poison. Someone is making a lot of money selling false hope while simultaneously injuring their customer. It pisses me off. The funny thing is that natural products are a major source of chemotherapy agents, and in nature, theyâre usually pretty toxic. Itâs after people get through improving on the substance that it starts to more selectively target cancer as opposed to wreaking wide havoc in your body. Yet people keep telling me, ânature heals.â
OMG so good! I keep a stash in my desk at all times! (Also you can reuse those tea bags for like a dozen cups!)
Still not knocking my theory thats it the rice and not the tea thoâŚ
Nature more often than not wants to kill our sorry bipedal hairless ape bodies. We have the ability to reason, make tools, and such to keep nature from doing that. Fuck nature. I will take indoor plumbing and electricity any day.
Sorry about the diagnoses, both of you. Crappy crap on a crap stick. The best science is
- the prescribed treatments by your oncologists
- maintain as healthy a lifestyle as you can
- do stuff that keeps your spirits up and pain at a minimum
If, for #3, thatâs using cannabis oil or apricot salve or green tea or what-have-you, then by all means do so. But, do it knowing that itâs category 3, possibly category 2, but not category 1. I have no problem with the placebo effect. Itâs real, even if people know itâs a placebo. So I say, have at it. But make sure that it doesnât conflict with some known things about cancer growth, such as antioxidants and sugars are promoters of cancer cell growth. Benign things like green tea or cannabis oil are probably non-factors in cancer cell growth.
(Itâs gut bacteria, i.e. Helicobacter, which is common in Asia and not common in Europe and North America.)
Sorry to learn you have cancer. Please keep us Happy Mutants informed as you go through treatment. My thoughts are with you.
