"too much" green tea?

[Papa Deuce]

I have recently ( as of Jan. 2nd ) switched from drinking coffee, with cream and splenda, to drinking green tea with splenda.

I used to drink 20ish ounces of coffee a day. Now I drink about 40 - 50 ounces of the green tea per day. A friend of mine was telling me that aside from the good stuff you get in green tea, that I am having too much of a good thing....

I lost all those calories, and gain all the antioxidants of green tea.... what am I missing?

EDIT... she was mostly concerned about caffiene.

 

[mookie]

MMMM....I think you can buy decaf green tea? Am I right? If so, I would think that there wouldn't be many better things to drink besides water itself...

 

[nephthys43]

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there's a chemical in green tea that's a stimulant laxitive. with prolonged, excessive use it can make your colon stop working on it's own.

 

[Papa Deuce]

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there's a chemical in green tea that's a stimulant laxitive. with prolonged, excessive use it can make your colon stop working on it's own.

But I use about 6 tea bags a day. maybe 5? I wouldn't think that would be too many. Do you?

To the other poster above, I guess I could live w/o caffeine... but the stuff they provide at work has caffeine, and that is what I use.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

I have recently ( as of Jan. 2nd ) switched from drinking coffee, with cream and splenda, to drinking green tea with splenda.

I used to drink 20ish ounces of coffee a day. Now I drink about 40 - 50 ounces of the green tea per day. A friend of mine was telling me that aside from the good stuff you get in green tea, that I am having too much of a good thing....

I lost all those calories, and gain all the antioxidants of green tea.... what am I missing?

EDIT... she was mostly concerned about caffiene.

You can always but decaf green tea. I have to be careful with it because it can alter coumadin levels.........

 

[caitycaity]

drinking several cups of green tea/day can also prevent iron absorption.

 

[cybrkitn]

But I use about 6 tea bags a day. maybe 5? I wouldn't think that would be too many. Do you?

To the other poster above, I guess I could live w/o caffeine... but the stuff they provide at work has caffeine, and that is what I use.

Why not switch over to regular tea or decaf tea? They come in a variety of flavors.

I'm a tea drinker and found that one tea bag will last me the whole day at work. Once it gets down to a certain level, I'll go and add hot water to it and will normally get about 3-4 refills out of it. My great-grandmother used to do the same thing and I never could understand why. Now I do.

 

[nephthys43]

oh... and regular (black) tea has almost the exact same amount of antioxidents as green tea.

 

[luv2nascar]

green tea is supposed to help speed up metabolism for weight loss but it will cause the laxative affect eventually.

 

[Wishing on a star]

I would never ever drink green tea, or splenda.

The tea industry is heavily promoting these so called antioxidents trying to get people to drink gallons of the stuff.

Sorry but a little bit of antioxident does not begin to hide the fact that green tea is full of other things that are NOT good for you. There are better ways to get your antioxidents.

Read up on fluoride... It is a toxin. Flouridated areas show no decrease in dental caries over non-fluoridate areas. And even the ADA is finally admitting that infants should NOT have the stuff.

If you have any thyroid issues at all, you should not drink green tea (or black tea either)

And, don't get me started on chemical Splenda


Hey... Drink some juice or bottled water!!!!

 

[Wishing on a star]

I lost all those calories, and gain all the antioxidants of green tea.... what am I missing?

Well, for one thing you are missing the fact that, as long as your coffee was also sweetened with Splenda, like your tea, then you really have not cut out any calories.

edited to add: Ohhhh, I see that you have probably cut out the creamer. So, that is a few calories.

 

[DISUNC]

My Mom (who is late 70's) wound up in the Hospital a few weeks ago. She was deyhdrated.
She told the Doc that she drinks Green Tea all day, SHE RECENTLY STOPPED COFFEE!

HE FLIPPED & FORBIDS HER from ever drinking green tea AGAIN!
He said the caffeine in that is "off the boards"...His words 'horrible horrible stuff" Nothing will dehydrate you faster than green tea and its way more caffeniated then regular tea!



She went back to coffee! She is fine!

 

[Papa Deuce]

Well, for one thing you are missing the fact that, as long as your coffee was also sweetened with Splenda, like your tea, then you really have not cut out any calories.

edited to add: Ohhhh, I see that you have probably cut out the creamer. So, that is a few calories.

200 hundred a day... I used flavored creamer.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

My Mom (who is late 70's) wound up in the Hospital a few weeks ago. She was deyhdrated.
She told the Doc that she drinks Green Tea all day, SHE RECENTLY STOPPED COFFEE!

HE FLIPPED & FORBIDS HER from ever drinking green tea AGAIN!
He said the caffeine in that is "off the boards"...His words 'horrible horrible stuff" Nothing will dehydrate you faster than green tea and its way more caffeniated then regular tea!



She went back to coffee! She is fine!

Everything in moderation, that is the key!

 

[RickinNYC]

Too much green tea can have a laxative effect??

Wait a minute.... so explains a lot.

 

[DISUNC]

Everything in moderation, that is the key!

I agree!

But she has a host of other ailments too. But i never EVER seen her DR so ADAMANT about anything else before!!! he was seriously against Green tea!

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Well, for one thing you are missing the fact that, as long as your coffee was also sweetened with Splenda, like your tea, then you really have not cut out any calories.

edited to add: Ohhhh, I see that you have probably cut out the creamer. So, that is a few calories.

Splenda doesn't have any calories....

 

[Papa Deuce]

Splenda doesn't have any calories....

exactly... so what the poster was saying was that I wasn't losing sugar / sweetener calories, only cream calories.

 

[aprilgail2]

Splenda doesn't have any calories....

It doesn't but I still wouldn't ever use it. Its like putting pure chemicals into your food, nothing "natural" about it no matter what claims they make.
Why not just drink a few bottles of water a day instead of all that coffee/ tea crap?? Much healthier for you thats for sure!

 

[cybrkitn]

It doesn't but I still wouldn't ever use it. Its like putting pure chemicals into your food, nothing "natural" about it no matter what claims they make.
Why not just drink a few bottles of water a day instead of all that coffee/ tea crap?? Much healthier for you thats for sure!

I drink my tea without milk/creamer or sugar. I used to put sugar in it when I was younger, but stopped that (didn't like the bitter taste after awhile). I'll occassionally have green tea, but not much. I'm not a coffee drinker - can't stand the stuff.

As far as splenda, I don't use in it drinks, but I do use it for baking. DH is diabetic. It also is an option for me as well. When I was pregnant with DS4, I had gestational diabetes. The Splenda is a good substitute for me in foods b/c I get an upset stomach from aspartame. So I can't use the stuff. But I don't like the taste that Splenda has in drinks. So I opt for going with my tea. Hot or cold with a lot of ice.