This is great! The Associated Press and various sundry news organizations reported today that the FDA rejected calls to endorse green tea as a naturopathic-wonder drug saying there “is no credible evidence to support qualified health claims for green tea or green tea extract and a reduction of a number of risk factors associated with CVD or cardiovascular disease”. Green teas are like vitamin supplements, more a marketing antidote to your ills than a real one. 

Hallalujah! From the beginning I always thought this was nothing more than the hard sell from the tea industry to market quasi-Eastern mysticism in a bottle. Now, all those Guatemalan-drawstring-pants-wearin’-NPR-listenin’-tree-huggin’-Ben-’n'-Jerry’s-eatin’-Upper-West-Side-and-West-L.A.-livin’-health food fanatics will have to drink Liptons and like it.