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"NEW YORK -- While gulping down a can of Diet Coke, Susan Johnson, 45, found what she was really looking for -- Enviga green tea, the so-called health drink that claims to burn calories while you consume it."

""It's for my daughter Talia. She is always trying some new health drink or the other and is a lot into all this Gatorade and vitamin water stuff," Johnson said. With a look of satisfaction, she scooped up a can at a Manhattan store."

"The fizzy green tea drink has a yellow color. And the taste? Well, even the most passionate advocate describes it as "foul." But the beverage has been disappearing off shelves of drugstores since its launch in February. The reason? Claims by manufacturers that consuming three cans of Enviga a day -- at five calories a can -- helps burn up to 106 calories."

""I don't exercise, and I try drinking health drinks because they keep you fit," said one fan, Noelia Ramos, 22."

"Not everyone is buying Enviga, which is marketed by the Coca-Cola Co. and Nestle. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit consumer group in Washington, D.C., has sued the two companies for misleading consumers by making what it says are fraudulent claims."

""The company is being very crafty," said Ilene Heller, a senior staff attorney with the group."

"The Connecticut attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, has also begun an investigation into the company's assertions, which he calls "voodoo nutrition.""

"Some nutritionists agree with him. "It's an inappropriate assumption that the drink 'burns' calories and helps people lose weight. I do not believe that there is sufficient evidence for that claim," said Marion Nestle, a professor at the department of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University."

"A Center for Science in the Public Interest senior nutritionist, David Schardt, questioned a study conducted by Coke and Nestle to support their claim."

"The research in question involved 31 young men and women who ate strict calorie-controlled diets and drank the equivalent of three cans of Enviga each day for three days. They spent
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