But how does it taste, compared to, say, diet pepsi?

Better.

I imagine there is a high correlation between green tea consumption and reading pornographic manga. This might explain the longevity ascribed to beverage imbibers.

The best thing about green tea is the theanine.

The Nipponese actually spike their soft drinks with it, which I'm sure is a huge relief to the parents.

I'm just gonna go ahead and die early since green tea is like sipping puddle scum. The Japanese drink stuff named Calpis and Pocari Sweat though so puddle scum probably sounds downright appetizing to them.

Guess I'm just gonna have to take an go git me some of that there stuff.
Is it any good as a mixer?

It's important for everyone to understand that increases of 15% (or even 50%) are not worthwhile. The standard for "relative risk" is 2 - which correlates to a 100% increase or decrease before you can even think about saying there's a correlation between what you're measuring and the effect you think you're seeing.

In other words, from an epidemiologic standpoint, probably 95% of the headlines of the day are meaningless. Thus the bizarre stories about eggs = BAD, then the next week eggs = good. Ad infinitum. Many (or most?) of the press releases you see are from studies in hot areas where the authors expect to be able to receive further grant money. Nothing says progress like a press release showing some correlation* (*as long as you don't analyze the study too much or ask about the biases).

It's important for everyone to understand that increases of 15% (or even 50%) are not worthwhile.

Given that presumption, you've indicted the anti-depressant formulary as placebos. (For example)

Mind you I'm not saying the results are definitively not correct, only that the studies are quoting less than epidemiologically significant results. It may be that they just haven't identified (and corrected) biases and confounding factors, but they're headed in the right direction. Unfortunately in this "publish it immediately" atmosphere, it's hard to say who is doing legit research and who is fishing for more grant $$$.

And it's not a presumption. Epidemiologic standards are written into the author guidelines of most (if not all) medical journals. Check out this link for an article written by Gary Taube about 10 years ago in Science: http://www.nasw.org/awards/1996/96Taubesarticle.htm

That's a good link.

Yeah, you're right, as my counter-example was thinking in terms of drug studies intended to treat a specific illness, not large epidemiologic studies trying to find associations.

if they also 'partoke' of the marijuana then cancer would not be a problem, at least 4 kinds would be eliminated.

so that makes it:
green tea
coffee
glass of red wine
marijuana,
then we can all live a long and healthy life.

also legalizing marijuana would resolve all the debt in the country. logic: no more billions to the drug war. almost half the prisons would be empty. we would start recieving taxes from the sales.

and caramella sensimellia is so very sweet, like eating cotton candy.

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