Is it just me, or does 7 cups of tea sound like an obscenely high amount of daily intake to anyone else, too?

The lining of my stomach couldn't take 7.

I usually have 2 green teas.

I hate tea but know people that drink it by the gallon - daily.

No different than heavy coffee drinkers - 7 or 8 cups a day is not even enough to get my attention. When I was in an office environment, people would always ask why make a pot at 5pm, but it would often be empty before I could get back for my first cup from that pot.

When I worked in the UK, they drank as much tea as we drink coffee.

I was drinking about 5 cups of Green Tea a day, then my oncologist said something like, "Don't drink too much of that, I don't like the tannic acid." So I cut down.

But I've been taking supplements like Metabolic Synergy and Zyflamend and I noticed the other day they all have green tea extract in them!

All my anti-cancer nutrition books praise the roof on Green Tea so I'm a little confused now. I'm down to two cups a day plus the milligrams in the supplements.

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No different than heavy coffee drinkers - 7 or 8 cups a day is not even enough to get my attention. When I was in an office environment, people would always ask why make a pot at 5pm, but it would often be empty before I could get back for my first cup from that pot.


When I worked in the UK, they drank as much tea as we drink coffee.

That is exactly right. It was the same here. Growing up here in Oz we all drank tea much as the British. I actually never knew anybody who drank coffee till I was in my late teens. Children over about 10 often drank tea with their meals. When a meal was prepared and placed on the table so was a pot of tea. Most times you would have a second cup. When someone visited they would automatically be offered tea as a welcoming gesture. I have great memories of my grandfather who would tip his hot tea into the saucer, blow on it to cool it down, place the saucer to his lips and sip his brew contentedly. Mind you this was black tea and almost always was drunk with milk added (I have read this negates the effect of the tannins). Green tea was a different kettle of fish ------ never came across anybody apart from orientals who drank it. Green tea consumed at more than a couple of cups a day will really loosen your bowels, put your kidneys into overdrive and increase your desire to pee ---- it can dehydrate as it can cause you to lose more fluid than was in the brew. There is an art to making a fine cup of tea.
Bill

Absolutely Tony. Vegemite sandwich and a cup of tea ------- ah, such bliss.

whatscookingamerica.net/History/VegemiteHistory.htm

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yA98MujNeM

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Okay, so I did a search of "Green tea and PCa" and came up with a gazillion articles that says it helps to forestall PCa.

Then I searched "Green Tea Causes PCa".

Found this site that seems to be the source or reprint of the story that started this thread.

www.thehindu.com/health/medicine-and-research/article3547285.ece?textsize=large&test=1

These comments really caught my attention.

The researchers also found that the subjects who drank the most tea were often teetotal and led healthy lifestyles. As a result, they may have been at a lower risk of death from “competing causes”, effectively giving them more time to develop prostate cancer, they said.

“Most previous studies have shown either no relationship with prostate cancer for black tea, or some preventive effect of green tea,” lead study author Kashif Shafique was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.

“We don’t know whether tea itself is a risk factor or if tea-drinkers are generally healthier and live to an older age, when prostate cancer is more common anyway,” Dr Shafique said. “However, we did adjust for these differences in our analysis and still found that men who drank the most tea were at greater risk of prostate cancer,”he added.

AND:

Dr Kate Holmes, head of research at The Prostate Cancer Charity, said: “Whilst it does appear that those who drank seven or more cups of tea each day had an increased risk of developing prostate cancer, this did not take into consideration family history or any other dietary elements other than tea, coffee and alcohol intake.

So for me, I don't care for tea, don't drink much of it, and like others here I have PCa. And only recently with developing events have I started to mainline coffee like drugs. If I could I would just roll a medical tree around with me and take the coffee via IV. LOL But the coffee is helping me get through the days.

FWIW,

Sonny

yeah, i would hate a good painful pc death to be blown off by a mere heart attack. lol. all that suffering for nothing

Green tea was a different kettle of fish ------ never came across anybody apart from orientals who drank it.

Don't Orientals have a lower risk of Prostate Cancer?  I sense a lot of money is being spent on trials that aren't really worthwhile.

Seven cups of tea?  Really?

Thanks, Ed.  As I typed that word, I felt something was wrong.  Of course, Asians is the correct term!  I suspect this group have a lower cancer rate for several reasons.

You know, I really hate these PC cause reports. Honestly, what haven't we heard about causing PC?

Then we say that all men will probably get it at some point in their life.

I really don't care any more what might have caused my PC. I just want to know how to kick it in the a**.

Goodlife

If this true, most indians should have prostate cancer