I've not tried the green tea extracts, either. I believe they are to be added to bottled water, but I could be wrong.

Good one, NothingNew, about going to weddings and wanting to shoot someone!

And no, I don't know what the big news is. I'll go back and look. I'm only up to March 2006 in reading his blog.

Wait, he might have been referring to the coupld of studies that came out around that time that showed a low-carb diet beats a low-fat diet hands down. Here, try this link, and read from there: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/?p=207