I’m trying like mad to love green tea. It’s all Michael Moseley’s fault. (You know, the tv doctor?). Spend too long in his company and you end up revising your whole attitude to your own health. Ever since he did his original Horizon programme about the 5:2 diet (where you “fast” for two days a week), he’s regularly appeared on my Radio Berkshire programme talking about health issues. Even once telling us all how he swallowed a tapeworm to see if it would help him lose weight! Well, last week on The Wright Stuff, we were sitting alongside each other on the panel and we talked even more. For instance, he nearly got us all doing the programme standing up - because he reckons you burn four times more calories simply by standing rather than sitting to do anything.
So now he’s got me drinking green tea. He reckons the health benefits are enormous. But what if you really, really don’t like it? I have tried and tried to like green tea but I find it dry and tasteless. Others say it’s an acquired taste. But now I have found a way. You load it with slices of lemon. Suddenly it becomes lemon tea with all the health benefits of green.
Now Im getting through two mugs a day… but am I doing the right thing?
