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Oh my.

HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts)      Wed Nov-10-10 07:49 PM
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Have sympathy for those who rely on the mainstream media

http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Dont-be-Fooled-by-...

Aging humans who rely on the media as a source for reliable health information are being dangerously misled.

Don’t be Fooled by Misleading Headlines

The media won’t stop posting attention-grabbing headlines that contradict the actual findings of positive scientific studies. On November 4, 2010, a news source stated:

“Beneficial Effects of Testosterone for Frailty in Older Men Are Short-Lived”

“Large Study Shows No Link between Green Tea and Reduced Risk of Breast Cancer”

A number of studies associate green tea consumption with reduced breast cancer risk.

A recent Japanese study, however, found that green tea drinkers did not have lower incidences of breast cancer based on food frequency questionnaires.

As Life Extension has previously published, the polyphenols from green tea beverages are not optimally absorbed even though many epidemiological studies show benefits in those who drink green tea.

While there is nothing wrong with drinking green tea, in order to have enough EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) and other polyphenols absorb into the bloodstream, they have to be taken as standardized extracts (which is what you obtain in high-quality supplements).

Green Tea Extracts vs. Green Tea Beverages

Mainstream doctors often advocate obtaining nutrients from foods rather than supplements. A problem with certain nutrients, however, is that they are bound so tightly to food that less-than-optimal amounts of the active constituents are absorbed into the bloodstream.

Examples of nutrients that are better absorbed from supplements than from food include vitamin K, folic acid, and chlorophyll.3-5 Lycopene, on the other hand, may be better absorbed from cooked tomato products6 than from supplements.

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, scientists sought to determine whether the active ingredients in green tea were better absorbed from green tea extract capsules or by drinking green tea. Thirty healthy test subjects were recruited and given either a specially prepared green tea beverage standardized for green tea’s most active constituents (such as EGCG and ECG) or equally standardized green tea extract capsules.

The results showed that subjects who received the green tea extract caps had a 60% greater increase in EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) and a 90% greater increase in ECG (epicatechin gallate) compared to those who drank the identical amounts of these green tea constituents in standardized beverage form. The antioxidant effects in those who swallowed the green tea caps were also greater than in the green tea drinkers.

The scientists concluded that when administered in the form of a green tea supplement, the active constituents (polyphenols) showed enhanced bioavailability compared to when identical amounts of polyphenols were provided in a green tea beverage.

Ooops.

Chemisse   (1000+ posts)        Wed Nov-10-10 08:52 PM
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This is posted as though it is health news but it is advertising from a commercial web site.

[JohnnyReb]

Put it in pill form and the DUmmies will swallow it.

[ExGeeEye]

*snerk*

I quite enjoyed reading my wife the story of the College-Degreed* Nutritionist** who was uncomfortably surprised to lose 27 pounds and improve his cholesterol numbers on a 30-day diet of Twinkies.

*If he paid more than $2.50 for that parchment, he got skrooood

**He reported that he wished he hadn't got such good results.  He might have "felt" better if this diet had actually damaged his health!  This tells me he's a "Nutritionist" because he believes quasi-religiously in "Nutritionism".