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Tea vs Coffee

I'm a freaking coffee addict. I have enjoyed coffee since I was about 16 years old. The stories your parents are told by doctors when 'kids' drink coffee is usually; they will have their growth stunted. Well I'm 6'2" and my parents were both well under 6' tall. So I don't think that played out. I'm trying to make a transition from coffee to tea. Coffee has been found to have some relatively good benefits to the heart in recent studies but the considerable levels of caffeine and inflammatory responders isn't so hot. Tea has outstanding properties literally across the spectrum of the human body. Everything from reducing cancer risks, increased cognitive capability, helping the heart to the intestines are all items encompassed by teas. The trick to teas are as follows: don't add milk, add citrus (lemon, etc), drink 4 minutes after pouring. I drink roughly 6 cups of coffee a day, my attempt is going to be to reduce that to maybe 1 cup a day by t...

Tea parties and what they are really representing

All this tea party jazz has liberals and the like that thought they owned marches, rallies, blogs, forums, YouTube and the like in a tizzy. They just can't believe that people would come out for causes other than; race relations, the environment or human rights. The concept that an event could happen that they haven't sanctioned is just mind numbing. On to the tea parties. I've followed a couple of liberal blogs and news reports essentially dissing anyone of the thousands involved in the tea parties as "useless", "unimportant" or "disrespecting history". Excuse me, ah what? Reminds me of the George Carlin statement: My Stuff: Have you ever noticed that your shit is stuff and someone else's stuff is shit? The idea that you can't use the term "tea party" without degrading its historical value is wrong. Historically it was used to represent taxation without representation. That is what we currently have when the majority of peopl...