An Email Hotline for Diabetes Info

From the ADA newsletter:

 

Since 1995, you have been able to reach the American Diabetes
Association's Diabetes Information Representatives was through our
hotline, 1-800-DIABETES to get answers to your questions regarding
diabetes and diabetes-related topics.  Now you can get that same high
level of service through email. With this new feature we are able to give
timely answers, in 24 hours or less. At AskADA@diabetes.org our goal is to
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FDA rejects green tea health claims

WASHINGTON - There is no credible scientific evidence that drinking green tea reduces the risk of heart disease, federal regulators said Tuesday in rejecting a petition that sought to allow tea labels to make that claim.

The Food and Drug Administration said it reviewed 105 articles and other publications submitted as part of the petition but could find no evidence to support claims of the beverage’s health benefits.

click here to read more at MSNBC

I have heard about articles, but I have not heard about blind studies, and just what the benefits may be.  I am weary when they say 105 articles have been reviewed but no one says just whom those articles belonged too.  This is clearly not how you evaluate a possible tea that "could" have some type of benefits.  I  feel as though the FDA has let us all down and the review was set up in a way to be sure it failed.