Drinking Too Much...

[sandyRoe]

...tea.
I always seem to have a cup to hand these days. Maybe 20 a day, more than a gallon of tea, which is probably too much. And I always seem to be running to the loo.
How much is enough?

[jd_1984]

Tea contains caffeine which should be consumed in moderation.
Caffeine can make you jumpy and edgy.
Some studies suggest excessive tea drinking can cause brittle bones and teeth (as well as staining teeth).
20 seems excessive. Some days I may have 3-4 cups, others I wont bother having one at all. But, I know for some people a "brew" is very comforting and part of their routine, I know people who have a cup every hour, at least.

[aelmpvw]

''I'll continue to take my tea orally.'' ... very wise sandy, you wouldn't want to be barred from lyons tea rooms

[DrFilth]

lol @ aelmpvw

[Khandro]

Do you have milk and sugar with it? If so you are taking on a lot of fat and carbohydrate.
I drink Chinese green tea without milk (natch!), 'Gunpowder', and if I can get it, one with the marvellous title 'Iron Bodhisattva of Mercy'.
There is also one called 'Duck ***'.

[Khandro]

I posted the vernacular for 'excrement', but it was robotically deleted. Hmmm. :-)

[Calibax]

Tony Benn 'Drank Enough Tea To Float The QE2' apparently and it didn't seem to do him too much harm.

[jomifl]

Sandy, cut down on the tea. Tea is a diuretic so you tend to pee more than you have drunk, so you get thirsty and have another cuppa. Drink something else and brake the cycle. Fruit juice is good as it contains potassium which helps reduce blood pressure. Plus not having to go to the loo so often will give you time to contemplate why god made the stuff and gave you the free will to drink too much.

[Sqad]

jomifl

\\\ Fruit juice is good as it contains potassium which helps reduce blood pressure\\

So do diuretics reduce BP which are present, as you mention, in .....tea.

Naaaah!...tea does you no harm.......

[treetops68]

Let's put it this way Sandy, I've never heard of anyone dying from teaitis!! :-)

[anneasquith]

worse things to drink than tea id say sandy :)

[Brinjal]

have the palms of your hands turned orange? If not then keep drinking.

[jomifl]

sqad, do you think that there is a linear relationship between amount of tea drunk and lowering of blood pressure? if so it would be a sight cheaper than statins etc. :o)

[Sqad]

jomifl........;-)

statins act on cholesterol, tea, as a diuretic may act on BP........different actions.

Nice point though.

[Ric.ror]

Now I stopped drinking tea as I thought it would affect my BP - I now drink hot water or de-caff Earl Grey

[McMouse]

//Tony Benn 'Drank Enough Tea To Float The QE2' apparently and it didn't seem to do him too much harm.//

This proves tea is dangerous because T. Benn was barking.

[sandyRoe]

The great brewer up above is kinder to us than we deserve, or imagine. He included Camellia Sinensis in the flora of the warmer regions, then gave us the wit to master fire so that we might eventually have the wherewital to mash a nice brew.
And yet there are some, ABers included, who pooh pooh the very idea of intelligent design.

[Khandro]

jordyboy; Doris id great, but my heart belongs to Anita;

[robofluff]

I would much rather drink tea than fruit juice which is full of sugar and acidic.