Hi, yes i have.
But only drinking green tea regularly and not maintaining a proper diet won't help.

I was at 74 kgs before starting with green tea and then with 2 large cups of plain green tea with lemon ( no sugar or honey). Took it for 2 months and now i have a reduced belly and fat content on my body. I am at 67 kgs.

see this site, I knew matcha here http://www.matchatea10.com/2016/05/matcha-tea.html

I maimtain a proper diet plus i also workout regularly but still i feel that most of weightloss was due to green tea because other things were followed by me for more than a year now. So, have patience and drink green tea.

Any recommendations on where to buy proper matcha online? The view I've tried on Amazon are all eh... I've learned that any matcha powder that sieves easily are probably very cheap or very good (unlikely).

There are some sites that might sell true Japanese vs the cheap imports from China. Trust is an issue, though - which is why I've been buying up cans of powder at NRT during layovers. Have you tried a Google search? There must be some legitimate importers.

How would I know if it's legitimately imported from Japan? Can you trust the "made in Japan" claims you see online?

Honestly, that's why I stock up at Narita or in-town Tokyo. I never need to worry. An experienced matcha drinker can tell the difference, but for a newer aficionado, it might be hard to tell a cheap imitation from the real thing - just check the online reviews carefully.

Another option, are you near any Japanese grocery stores?

In China, it seems drinking Maccha tee is very popular for young girls.

I own a matcha company, 3 Leaf Tea (threeleaftea.com) and have personally studied matcha before even started the company.

Basically, the tea leaves are ground up into a fine powder, so because you are consuming the whole leaf, you get much more nutritional value than other teas. One thing in specific is the combination of caffeine with amino acids. L-Theanine helped produce alpha brain waves which promote a state of relaxation. Paired with caffeine, helps keep you calm but alert. Also it's been studied that matcha contains more antioxidants then goji berries or blueberries.

It's pretty amazing stuff.

Anyone in Australia should check out Elixirlite, they're fairly new but they offer free shipping. Shame they aren't international though :rolleyes:
(elixirlite.com.au)

The stuff is very popular is southern Brasil, and has been linked to statistically the higher incidents of stomach cancer in that particular geographic region of the country.

Matcha tea is green tea powder from Japan - where it has been consumed for centuries without causing cancer, if anything, it helps guard against it.

Maybe they are drinking something else in Brazil? Given that part of the world, it could be anything - although my guess is they are drinking powdered tea spiked with an alphabet soup of chemicals, pesticides, and fertilizers, any or all of which could cause stomach cancer.

The statistics of green tea drinking being linked to higher incidences of gastric cancer make sense.

Japan has (along with South Korea and Mongolia) the highest rates of gastric cancer in the world.
When Japanese people leave Japan to live elsewhere, they usually become less likely to succumb to gastric cancer, particularly when they adopt the new country’s diet.
The reduced chances of getting gastric cancer are striking for those who emigrated to the USA, but less so for those who went to Brazil (Brazil has a significant ethnic Japanese population, they started moving there 125 years ago).
Green tea is linked to the Japanese diet. Despite many Japanese scientists arguing that it can have a mitigating effect on gastric cancer, it is still going to be statistically linked with a population within Brazil who are more prone to stomach cancer than other groups.

Personally, I don’t think there is anything to worry about UNLESS you are one of these people who want to take matcha several times a day. Anything in excess is potentially bad for you, and matcha is a particularly potent form of green tea where every part (except the pre-discarded leaf veins and stalks) is ingested.

Drinking it multiple times per day is exactly what occurs in southern Brasil.

Is matcha (ground and de-veined leaf consumed whole) being drunk several times a day?
Or are you talking about green tea (where the leaves are steeped (often several times) and then discarded?

A cite would be good here.
I can only find this study which associates the drinking of (yerba) maté with increased incidences of cancers of the head and neck - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12808663

The first example.

Two of my best friends are 20+ year Brasilian GI specialists which is where I am referencing my post.

Already well known is that people with Japanese ancestry are more likely to develop gastric cancer than other Brasilians. But you haven't addressed this at all. Have your GI specialist friends discussed this aspect with you?

I cannot drink large quantities of matcha. I find it is way too strong and only need a small quantity to feel a "buzz". Doesn't surprise me that people who would choose to drink copious quantities (far more than what would be considered normal either in Japan or elsewhere) would suffer unexpected consequences. Also, it would be interesting to know what passes for Matcha in Southern Brazil.
Green tea used to be the tea of choice when it was originally introduced in Europe. Unfortunately, it developed a reputation for becoming meddled with (copper filings and other impurities were often mixed in to increase profit margins) and black fermented tea took over as the number one choice. Sealed bags eventually brought total confidence in tea.

I can't help but be suspicious of what people who aren't from one of the world's richest countries are actually drinking when they are taking such vast amounts of a famously expensive commodity.