All these Tea's

What's up with this sudden fad of drinking tea to lose weight? My dad just bought bags upon bags of tea that supposedly "help you lose weight". It really urks my chain that he along with many others in this world dont even bother working out or eating right to lose weight the real way yet they invest in some tea they think will do miracles. I know tea is good for you and give you vitamins and energy but weight loss come on now other giving you dirrahea which is the way most teas' like these work

Yeah, I can't stand all of these fad diets, especially Atkins.  People are just too lazy and impatient.

haha i said the exact same thing the other day when my boss was talking about how you can get a 32oz drink of tea at mcdonalds now i was like ohh yea like thats going to erase the bigmac you just ate

tea doesn't even do anything as far as burning fat goes it's the Green tea leaf extract that does it. and thats basically like caffeine right.
 
Just a side not here I read an article about 10 dif. nurients/supps that aren't really thougt of or used for bodybuilding and one of them was some tea leaf extract. It's called Theanine(amino Acid) wich supposedly adds flavor and promotes mental and physical relaxation. Anyways taking 50-100mg of this 30-60min. before bed is supposed to boost GH levels while u sleep (helps build muscle simply enough) i'm not sure where u would get it though if u can get it pure(pill or powder) or just drink a strong tea i'm not sure
 
if anybody is interested in the other 9 just say so and i'll post about it. (M&F) readers from one '06's issues have probably seen this. 

Alot of M&F is debatable but please post