is it good for you or not? I hear soooo much conflicting advice about it, I don't know what's believable.

i've wondered this too...can you still benefit from green tea leaves used in cool/lukewarm water? are the leaves in tea bags not raw?
would be grateful for anyone's knowledge!

I don`t buy the idea that green tea is a miracle drink,If you like it, by all means go ahead and sip on it, it`s nice...you`re not missing out on anything if you don`t-I don`t think....

it looks like green tea is absolutely loaded with fluoride and aluminum.
it appears black tea has many many times the level of fluoride that is allowed in drinking water. green tea is said to have twice as much contamination as others.


[www.mercola.com]
"Tea leaves accumulate more fluoride (from pollution of soil and air) than any other edible plant (1,2,3). Fluoride content in tea has risen dramatically over the last 20 years, as has tea consumption (4).

While in 1976 a Belgian analysis showed content of between 50 and 125 ppm fluoride in 15 varieties of tea (3), a Polish study in 1995 found fluoride content of up to 340 ppm in 16 varieties of black tea (5). A major Canadian study published in 1995 reports average fluoride content in tea to be 4.57 mg/l in the 1980's.(6)

A website by a pro-fluoridation infant medical group lists a cup of black tea to contain 7.8 mgs of fluoride (7), which is roughly the same amount as if one were to drink 7.8 litres of water in an area fluoridated at 1ppm. It is well known that fluoride in tea gets absorbed by the body similarly as the fluoride in drinking water (1,8)."

-If YOU believe (as I certainly do) that non-processed fruits and vegetables are of a higher caliber of protient / nutrient / vitality content than processed foods.......then my suggestion is to consume more of those.

-David Mason