The teaderboard
The world leader is probably a 700 pound woman in Alabama drinking sweet tea. You can get type 2 just by being in a room with her.
Can confirm. I drank basically nothing but sweet tea from the ages of like 10 until I was in my mid twenties, only supplementing with mountain dew.
Yes, I am diabetic, and my teeth have suffered. I drink almost exclusively water now. But Jesus, if you grew up in the south in the 90s and 00s, I don’t remember anyone but my mom ever drinking water, and even she drank almost exclusively coke.
Considering how much tea some people drink, the person who’s actually #1 probably knows they’re in the top 10, surely.
How do we define it? The volume of liquid, or the weight of tea used for brewing?
I’ve seen to many people drinking what’s closer to milky brackish water than a tea
That’s true, and people steep it for varying lengths of time. Can such a thing be measured?
I’d argue yes. What people care about more is minimum steep time and minimum leaves by weight per mL water. You can use the brew ratio for this to actually define your tea to a standard like black tea. Though you’d have to define brew ratio which I trust the British to do.
After you define those things though, you’d probably measure the amount of liquid and kind of ignore the weight of the tea and steep time, so long as they go over the minimum per serving. Unless you want to argue that adding more leaves/steep time means that you’re consuming more tea, which seems wrong.
I have about 4 pints / 2ish litres each day, so I reckon I’m placed high on that list.
From my quick searching I’ve seen pretty mixed answers. The studies I found seemed to say that it didn’t contribute to kidney stones, the extra water offset the extra oxalate and some even said the risk of kidney stones was lower. But that was for “moderate amounts”.
Tea and coffee in moderation are not a problem. While tea and coffee do contain some oxalate, the extra fluid outweighs any possible disadvantage. In fact, some studies suggest that drinking moderate amounts of tea and coffee can actually lower the risk of kidney stones. In general, if you do drink caffeinated beverages, keep your daily amount of caffeine to no more than 400 milligrams. That’s equal to four or five cups of regular coffee.
A meta-analysis based on 3 studies showed that the relationship between tea consumption and kidney stones was borderline nonlinear, with a 4% decrease in the risk of kidney stones for each 110 ml/day increase in tea consumption [15].
Interesting.
