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Beware that green tea supplements have been associated with very sever liver damage. Even though most survive, they often require prolonged intensive care, with attending complications, muscle wasting, etc. Good reference here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK547925/
Read this, seems A) rare and B) not clearly due to green tea extract. The data is basically anecdotal and there isn’t a lot of cases. And none of the cases were due to using green tea, they were herbal mixtures with many ingredients.
There are more cases that appears through cursory review of the literature, as most go unreported/unpublished. I have seen one case myself, and the person barely survived.
This is a weird thing to comment about, but maybe it's feedback for someone and might be informative. I love tea. I would love to read this article. But, the tall font is horrible, distracting and discouraging me to do so. This is probably the first time in my life that I closed a web page due to the font of the body text. (I have saved it for later is some readable format provided by my browser)
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Don't know any stats from the top of my head, but I recall that oesophageal cancer is caused by drinking _hot_ tea, not by drinking tea per sé.
> drinking hot tea, not by drinking tea per se. It is unclear to me that there is any way to drink tea than other than piping hot. I have heard horror stories that suggest people have attempted to drink cold tea but I figure such tales are merely intended to provoke disgust.
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Cold tea infusion my boy - a nice strong ice tea on a hot summer day is one of life’s little pleasures. Splash of lemonade optional. Sugar very much optional.
Sugar is optional in tea the way screaming is optional in a library.
Some people loathe the flavour of stevia leaf, but I am completely used to it by now.
I've been a dedicated tea drinker since my teens, so this is great news. OTOH what I worry about is oesophageal cancer. Not sure of the prevalence.
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Sugar is optional in tea the way screaming is optional in a library.
I love my morning infusion of green tea with stevia leaves. I take the first cup hot and then prepare a 2 litter jug with "cold infusion" and ice for the rest if the day . Some people loathe the flavour of stevia leaf, but I am completely used to it by now.
To each their own, it’s just so foreign I can’t imagine.
Black tea is consumed principally in Europe, North America, and North Africa. Totally left out East Africa,where Kenya is the world's 3rd largest producer of Tea,only a proportion of which gets exported.
Also in Central Asia. They told me there: green tea in summer, black tea in winter. And also, we keep the good one for us, we sell the bad one to Europe, we grind the very bad one and sell it to Europe to make tea bags. Luckily I almost never use tea bags.