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Green Tea Pills - Are They As Effective As Drinking Green Tea?

InfoZen11 | Oct 27, 2009 |

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If you are signed up for health update emails or even watching the news you have heard and read stories about green tea and the health benefits it provides. The one that seems to get the most attention is the claim that it can help with weight loss -- weight loss claims always get a lot of attention -- but green tea has also proved to be beneficial for a number of other health-related issues.

The Benefits Of Green Tea

Green tea is being studied for anti-cancer properties, it is good for reducing inflammation, it can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and yes, it can help speed up your metabolism. It won't help you magically drop pounds but it will help you with weight loss, especially if you use it along with a sensible diet and regular exercise routine. One of the things I like about green tea is that it seems to bind with free radicals in you body and eliminate them. Free radicals are a contributor to a variety of health problems including degeneration and other problems related to aging.

Green Tea Pills

There is enough information available to make a compelling argument for drinking green tea. But to get the health benefits you need to drink more than one cup a day, in fact many sources say you need to drink multiple cups a day to get the benefits. This is where green tea pills come in to play for many people. Green tea pills offer the benefits of multiple cups of green tea in a single green tea capsule or tablet. That sounds pretty good, but do they work as well as drinking the tea?

Unfortunately it is hard to know for sure because many studies are based on cultures that regularly drink green tea, not on people taking green tea pills. Green tea pills isolate and concentrate the beneficial components of the tea so it seems like they would work, but it is hard to know for sure if there are synergistic effects between the beneficial components and other components in the green tea in its true form.

While there aren't any known significant side effects of taking pure green tea pills (unless you are really sensitive to caffeine), some caution it may not be healthful to increase the recommended dose. Some people taking these supplements think that more of a good thing is better, but that isn't always the case. Also be very careful when taking some green tea diet pills as they have added ingredients to promote weight loss that may cause some minor side effects.