Do you add milk to your Green Tea?

Lead_Head said:
What are the benefits of green tea over normal tea??
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Wiki-blurb-dump said:
Green tea contains polyphenols which are thought to improve health, particularly catechins, the most abundant of which is epigallocatechin gallate. In vitro and animal studies as well as preliminary observational and clinical studies of humans suggest that green tea can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer as well as beneficially impact bone density, cognitive function, dental cavities, and kidney stones. However, the human studies are sometimes mixed and inconsistent.[5] Green tea also contains carotenoids, tocopherols, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), minerals such as chromium, manganese, selenium or zinc, and certain phytochemical compounds. It is a more potent antioxidant than black tea,[5] although black tea has substances which green tea does not such as theaflavin.
Green tea consumption is epidemiologically associated with reduced heart disease, and animal studies have found that it can reduce cholesterol. However, several small, brief human trials found that tea consumption did not reduce cholesterol in humans. In 2003 a randomized clinical trial found that a green tea extract with added theaflavin from black tea reduced cholesterol.[6]
In a study performed at Birmingham (UK) University, it was shown that average fat oxidation rates were 17% higher after ingestion of green tea Extract than after ingestion of a placebo.[7] Similarly the contribution of fat oxidation to total energy expenditure was also significantly higher by a similar percentage following ingestion of green tea extract. This implies that ingestion of green tea extract can not only increase fat oxidation during moderately intensive exercise but also improve insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in healthy young men.
A recent study looked at the effects of short term green tea consumption on a group of students between the ages of 19- 37. Participants were asked not to alter their diet and to drink 4 cups of green tea per day for 14 days. The results showed that short term consumption of commercial green tea reduces systolic and diastolic BP, fasting total cholesterol, body fat and body weight. These results suggest a role for green tea in decreasing established potential cardiovascular risk factors. This study also suggests that reductions may be more pronounced in the overweight population where a significant proportion are obese and have a high risk of cardiovascular disease.[8]
In a study performed at the Technion, it was shown that the main antioxidant polyphenol of green tea extract, EGCG, when fed to mice induced with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, helped to protect brain cells from dying, as well as 'rescuing' already damaged neurons in the brain, a phenomenon called neurorescue or neurorestoration. The findings of the study, led by Dr. Silvia Mandell, were presented at the Fourth International Scientific Symposium on Tea and Human Health in Washington D.C., in 2007. Resulting tests underway in China, under the auspices of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, are being held on early Parkinson's patients.[9]
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In short, there's a lot of unknowns but the anti-oxidants and protected-from-parkisons mice seem to be good points.
 
randal24 said:
In short, there's a lot of unknowns but the anti-oxidants and protected-from-parkisons mice seem to be good points.
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Let us be quite clear about this: antioxidants acquired from your diet have no protective benefit what-so-ever. None. Nada. Zip. The myth that they have was dubunked decades ago and it's still pedled by advertisers and pseudoscientific quacks.

I drink green tea because it's nice. I suggest you drink, or don't drink, green tea for the same reason.
 
Mr Jack said:
Let us be quite clear about this: antioxidants acquired from your diet have no protective benefit what-so-ever. None. Nada. Zip. The myth that they have was dubunked decades ago and it's still pedled by advertisers and pseudoscientific quacks.

I drink green tea because it's nice. I suggest you drink, or don't drink, green tea for the same reason.
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Hmm, didn't know that. Got a source?

Primary reason for drinking it is taste, and a welcome change from regular tea/coffee throughout the the day.
 
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