Too many cuppas of green tea can cause liver and kidney damage

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Too many cuppas of green tea can cause liver and kidney damage

By ANI
Monday May 7, 12:01 PM

London, May 7 (ANI): Green tea will only help keep you healthy if it is taken in moderation, warn boffins.

The drink is credited with keeping cancer and heart disease at bay, but too many cuppas a day could cause liver and kidney damage, say experts who conducted a review of studies into the toxicity of polyphenols present in green tea.

Lead author Chung Yang of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, insists that though up to 10 small cups of green tea a day won't do you any harm, it is people who take supplements, which can contain up to 50 times as much polyphenol as a single cup of tea, that are at risk.

"People shouldn't be too alarmed by this, but those taking supplements may experience problems," the New Scientist quoted Prof Yang, as saying.

As a part of his review Prof Yang's looked at experiments in which rats and dogs died from liver poisoning after being given very large doses of polyphenols.

He also found that there were reported cases of people with liver toxicity after overdosing on green-tea-based supplements.

Though the symptoms of liver toxicity stopped around the same time as when these people stopped taking the pills, they returned once the subjects started taking the supplement pills again.

[goofynina]

I dont get it, first they say it's good for you because of the antioxidants and stuff, and now this?? Geeze people, MAKE UP YOUR FREAKEN MINDS ALREADY!!  Aye yi yi 

[kitkatz]

I'm dead already, then. Hubby makes me a cuppa tea every morning.  Think he is trying to get rid of me? 

[Wattle]

I'm dead already, then. Hubby makes me a cuppa tea every morning.  Think he is trying to get rid of me? 

OH crap!! Yep that must be how he was going to finally bump me off. Tea me to death 

[Sara]

As with everything else, it's all about moderation.   

[livecam]

They were passing out samples of green tea at Sam's Club yesterday...it looked good but then I remembered this thread.  No thank you!

[thegrammalady]

did i read something here that others didn't? i could have sworn it said, drinking a few cups of the tea is ok, the problem comes when you take the green tea supplements which have 50 times the whatever it was than the tea itself. to me that says don't drink 50 cups of tea a day. or am i just crazy as usual.

[Sara]

You're crazy  but I read the same thing as you, only when you start the mega doses is when it's a problem.