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How much tea, is too much?

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  • #62
    MarkY91
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    My ma drinks about 8 cups per day with 3 sugars per cup

    I drink about 4 per week


  • #63
    faceman
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    I have about 4 a day, more if it's one of those days. I'm a tea snob. Don't like Barry's and prefer gold blends or certain black teas from David's Tea.

    Funnily enough the daily maximum guidelines differs from nutritional body to nutritional body. Some say 5 is max others say 5 is good for you. I've seen figures between 4 and 8 as the maximum amount of unsweetened cups of tea per day.


  • #64
    DareGod
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    Nigella Lawson says she drinks up to 12 mugs of tea per day & a big mug at that :eek: "On a day-to-day basis I just have my two mugs of tea and then I chain-drink tea throughout the day."
    You would'nt think it!
    Given that Irish people drink so much, how many mugs of tea do you have daily?



    Wait. Wtf does the bolded part mean. It says she has two cups of tea. Where is the 12 coming from?


  • #65
    DareGod
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    I have a cup of coffee in the morning and then no more caffeine at all. If I want tea after that I'll have decaff. A cup of tea is not worth getting ****ty sleep for. Also tea and coffee give me a stomach ache after the second cup.


  • #66
    Graces7
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    Tea?SHUDDERS! As a small child in Wigan nearly 8 decades ago they thought they had a changeling as there was NO WAY they could get me to like tea or drink it. When nescafe arrived, grand.. Tea also has some terrible associations. When the police came to my flat to tell me my mother had been in a road accident and my car was off the road, I finally got to the hospital over 6o miles away to be given the worst possible news, accompanied by a cup of stewed tea .. now I hate even the smell of it. Last cup I drank was when a kind stallholder at a rainy market presented me with a cup and kept watching to see if I was drinking it... now COFFEE! When I wake very early a big mug of strong Gold Blend with 2 sugars starts the day. Only recently I learned that people with M.E benefit from caffeine and have erratic blood sugar levels..


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  • #67
    Sprog 4
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    If there has been any long term studies done they probably weren't very condemning of tea. I'm sure some work must have been done given how many tea drinkers there are around here and the UK. I've heard reports that the heat from hot tea can increase the risk of throat/mouth cancer over time however. I'm a tea drinker myself but always let it cool significantly before drinking.


  • #68
    MonkstownHoop
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    Lights On wrote: »
    I don't drink tea or coffee. Horrible drinks!

    Weirdo


  • #69
    Fuzzytrooper
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    My blood is 10% blood, 90% tea. Yes I don't understand it either but thats science for you....


  • #70
    IvyTheTerrible
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    Sprog 4 wrote: »
    If there has been any long term studies done they probably weren't very condemning of tea. I'm sure some work must have been done given how many tea drinkers there are around here and the UK. I've heard reports that the heat from hot tea can increase the risk of throat/mouth cancer over time however. I'm a tea drinker myself but always let it cool significantly before drinking.
    I think that cancer risk is more for tea drunk in Turkey and North Africa, where they drink it extremely hot and with no milk.


  • #71
    kylith
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    Fuzzytrooper wrote: »
    My blood is 10% blood, 90% tea. Yes I don't understand it either but thats science for you....

    My blood type is Gold Blend


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  • #72
    Sprog 4
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    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    I think that cancer risk is more for tea drunk in Turkey and North Africa, where they drink it extremely hot and with no milk.


    Maybe it's more usual over there but hot tea is hot tea no matter where you are. I know some people here who start sipping their tea within seconds.


  • #73
    cashback
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    Ciderswigger wrote: »
    It's disgusting! You should see all the milk she goes through too. We'd be better off buying a cow!!!!

    So how many boxes of tea does she got through a week and how does that habit cost?!

    I drink a lot of tea and coffee, the tea probably just about wins the quantity battle.
    Bought my first tin of Campbell's loose leaf the other day as my cousin used to make it and its got a nice strong taste. Might have some now actually.


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