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i make a large glass (equal to 2 cups) of COLD green tea with 4 packets of splenda. i drink this like 4 or 5 times a day, i just love how it tastes. is this bad for me, and could i gain weight from this?
i guess i could do w/o the sugar, but it just doesn't taste as good.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 shannondawn64 // Jul, 2008
It can increase your estrogen levels
2 El Numero Uno Cubano Bruno // Jul, 2008
Contrary to what a lot of places advertise, green tea will NOT help you lose weight. That is just a lie. It does have some caffeine that *may* speed up your metabolism a little, but not really anything you'll notice.
The great benefits in green tea are all the antioxidants. There's more antioxidants in green tea than most fruits or vegetables and most other teas, so keep on drinking all you'd like!
I do it too!
3 soothsayer // Jul, 2008
it supposedly burns cals, and it may make your biceps bigger, and you can drink 4+ cups with no problem, you wont gain weight.
4 Kelly M // Jul, 2008
Green tea actually has a lot of health benefits, most specifically antioxidants which can help prevent cancer. You can check around the internet but there are about a million studies on its benefits and it appears there are no major drawbacks. I'd be more worried about the Splenda, it sounds like a moderately high amount of artificial sweetener to be consuming on a daily basis, but that's probably fine anyway.
Green tea has a lot less caffeine than regular tea, which has less caffeine than coffee. (People argue with me about this all the time and tell me it's the opposite, but you can check with the FDA.)
In short, it's not bad, 4-5 cups of green tea per day may actually be good for you and maybe cut it down just a tad on the splenda. Have you tried a teaspoon of honey? That really isn't a ton of calories, especially compared to soda, and might be more enjoyable.
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