Mega-T Green Tea Extract Pills Review
Can You Tell For Real?

According to CCA Industries, manufacturer of Mega-T Green Tea Extract supplements, their products work "around the clock to help your metabolism use calories for energy instead of storing them as fat".

They also promise that "over a period of time, you can lose up to 20lbs if you follow our enclosed diet plan to eat less and exercise properly". They also claim their products will:

• Help you lose weight

• Curb your appetite

• Burn more calories

• Help burn belly fat

In 2007, CCA Industries, offering a variety of health and beauty products, was ranked #143 by Forbes Magazine in their ‘200 Best Small Companies’.

For over twenty years, CCA Industries have strived to manufacture products that ‘solve the real needs of consumers, offering state-of-the-art formulations at a fraction of the cost of department store and specialty brands’.

The Mega-T Green Tea's tag line is ‘utilizes the latest advances in green tea formulations for weight-loss’.

Mega-T Green Tea line includes a wide range of products:

• Supplement pills

• Weight loss beverages

• Chewing gum

• Liquid drops that can be added to any drink

Interestingly, any products you purchased come with a weight loss plan that includes a complete high protein, low carbohydrate food plan and exercise program, which is reviewed below.

Mega Green Tea Diet Review

Each capsule contains 600 milligrams of green tea and other herbal extract. Here is the detailed breakdown:

• 300 milligrams of green tea extract containing 60 milligrams of caffeine

• 250 micrograms of Chromium

• 250 milligrams of Garcinia Cambogia fruit extract containing 125 milligrams of Hydroxycitric Acid

• 70 milligrams of Guarana seed extract containing 25 milligrams of caffeine

• 35 milligrams Eleuthero extract (0.8% eleutherosides)

• 20 milligrams Gotu Kola (whole plant)

• 35 milligrams Fo-Ti (root)

• 20 milligrams Bladderwrack (whole plant)

As you can see, Mega-T Green Tea extract contains a long list of herbal ingredients. Green tea occupies less than half of the total content.

Strictly speaking, this product should not be regarded as a green tea extract. It is an herbal blend in its own right.

The main ingredient is green tea, which we know help increase metabolism and burn fat.

Chromium is an effective appetite suppressant that help prevent food cravings..

Garcinia Cambogia claims to prevent the conversion of carbohydrates into fat. Contrary to scientific evidence, it is also widely regarded as an effective appetite suppressant.

Guarana seeds and caffeine raise energy levels and burn more calories.

Three other components: Gotu Kola, Fo-Ti and Bladderwrack help burn fat and eliminate excess fluids.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this herbal blend?

• An integrated "slow and steady" system that incorporates a meal plan and exercise program.

• Target of 20 pounds weight loss seems realistic for most people if they follow the program.

• Herbal blends exploits potential synergies, with each ingredient working better as a blend then it would on its own.

• Liquid drops are tasteless, odourless. Very convenient as they can be added to coffee or juice. Same for chewing gum.

• Motivational success stories in the site to keep you on track!

• The Mega-T Green Tea brand is misleading because green tea only occupies half of the total content.

• Manufacturer does not reveal how much EGCG each capsule contains, which is a concern because the extraction process typically destroys a high proportion of EGCG - the most potent green tea ingredient for weight loss and other health benefits.

• Product is not herbicide and fluoride free, which is another concern as crops may be grown in Asian countries and contaminated by environmental pollution and the overuse of pesticide.

• 250 micrograms of Chromium per capsule exceeds USDA daily recommendation of 50 to 200 micrograms daily. Long periods of use should be avoided as occupational exposure to inhalant Chromium IV is a known carcinogen.

• Although toxic levels of Chromium taken orally has not been shown to increase cancer rates in rats or humans, higher levels do put a strain on kidneys and liver with long term side effects unknown at this time.

• Impossible to substantiate the effectiveness of this product as the plan also includes food and exercise.

Many Mega-T Green Tea experts made the highly dubious claim that green tea is an appetite suppressant.

A 2000 study conducted by University of Chicago found that rats consumed less food only when they were injected with green tea extract, but not when they drank green tea.

Therefore, for green tea to act as appetite suppressant, you would have to drink green tea constantly and at levels much higher than what is found in any supplements in the market today.

The role of green tea is clear: it increases metabolism and promotes fat burning.

It is the other ingredients such as Chromium that plays the role of appetite suppressant.

That is the reason why if you want to lose weight, a quality herbal blend rather pure tea extract is your best bet.

Mega-T Green Tea with Hoodia supplements open up another can of worms.

Hoodia is on the endangered species list and only grows in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. It has been found almost impossible to cultivate making it a difficult and expensive product to sell in mass quantities.

Mike Adams of NewsTarget.com estimates that up to 80% of Hoodia on the market is fake with 60% of the products sold in the US failing laboratory verification.

This raises concerns about what it is that is in the Mega-T Green Tea with Hoodia supplements. To me, this lowers the credibility of all the ingredients including their quality.

Note: do not bother trying to order this product in Canada as it will be stopped at the border due to the fact it is illegal to export Hoodia out of South Africa.

Green Tea and Hoodia

The diet and exercise plan that Mega-T Green Tea suggests is indicative of steady, slow, healthy weight loss that will give the desired result.

However, the quality and potency of the product being in question leaves me to wonder if it is the safest or most effective green tea supplement on the market.

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