When I first moved to AZ about 40 years ago, I roomed with an English woman. She drank tea. A lot.
I had never drunk it, not iced, not hot, not tepid. When she found I never drank tea she was stunned.
Had I told her I tried it but didn't like it, she probably would have been appalled as well as stunned.
Anyway, I learned how to PROPERLY make tea (there is the correct way, and then all the other ways ).
And I found I liked it. A lot. So I drink water and unsweetened tea (and 2% milk on my cereal** )
And you know, 4 gallons per week is only a little more than 1/2 gallon per day... and that's not a whole lot.
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Last edited by Patty Hann; 01-29-2023 at 9:51 PM.
I drink it the way the Brits do...with a splash of milk**...(2% or full fat***)
And the milk offsets the oxalate in black tea which (in large amounts) can cause kidney stones.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12627177/.
Tea with milk better for you than tea without milk
Also I eat mostly low oxalate foods (except for Oreos, but if you dunk them in milk then it's OK )
So far no problems.... knock on (what else?) wood. '
**Except when I'm sick, and the thought of consuming any dairy makes me gag.
So I put rum or brandy in the tea instead.
*** I also learned from my Brit roomie that you don't put cream in tea...it's always milk.
Cream is so "flavor heavy" that it overwhelms the flavor of the tea.
Last edited by Patty Hann; 01-30-2023 at 4:51 AM.
Having had three painful kidney stones, and initially drinking lots of diet iced tea as my urologist had suggested drinking lots of liquid, after my third kidney stone he was appalled that I was drinking tea. He told me that the South is the kidney "Stone Belt" of the US (North Carolina residents have the most. A 15% chance for a white male to develop kidney stones in his lifetime, which is amazingly high).
Haven't had any tea since. And reading that study, it looks to me that just drinking milk and skipping the tea altogether would be better still if you had a history of oxalate kidney stones.
- After I ask a stranger if I can pet their dog and they say yes, I like to respond, "I'll keep that in mind" and walk off
- It's above my pay grade. Mongo only pawn in game of life.
Milk Labels: When did you last go to the beach and see at least one guy with two tattoos on his upper chest ? Sweet and Sour and Hot
and Cold were both popular.
Patty, I want to assure you that I didn’t make that up. Be assured the style is no longer popular ; but ,yes it could come back.
Wow, thanks SMC for the unintended education. I drink a lot of tea and had no idea that it is high in oxalate. I avoid spinach for that reason (well, not the only reason) but was cutting back on coffee and soda by drinking tea. Kidney stones scare the heck out of me.
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I had not heard that . I drink 8 tea-bags of oolong tea every day. When I was young , every time I drank a cup of coffee I got a heart-beat of 140.
Saw heart doctor and he told me to stop drinking coffee. That’s what I was thinking, but it’s good to get a “second opinion”.
So my Scoutmaster way back when, was from England and served in the British Navy during WWII. He said soldiers trying to dodge the draft there would pack tea leaves in their arm pits to create a higher than acceptable heart rate. I never heard or read that anywhere else though.