Too Much Tea Causes Unusual Bone Disease

http://news.yahoo.com/too-much-tea-causes-unusual-bone-disease-222359924.html

by uladzislau • 13 years ago

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anigbrowl• 13 years ago

Oh no! I drink a lot of tea...

47 year old woman...drank a pitcher of tea made from at least 100 tea bags daily, for 17 years

Whew, not even close. Also, WTF. Glad to see that simply halting the excess consumption should allow her body to repair the imbalance over time.

droithomme• 13 years ago

Ha ha, I had the same thought and was coming to post the same excerpt. I drink a huge amount of tea... but not 100 bags a day. I already knew about the fluoride in tea. Also in some other things:

http://www.fortcollinscwa.org/pages/fluoride.htm

phaus2• 13 years ago

How much do you drink? The article said that there were other cases in the U.S., and that the typical patient was drinking about a gallon a day.

I myself on a typical day drink 2 32oz pots. That's half a gallon so I kind of wonder if I should cut back.

to3m• 13 years ago

They must have been some pretty nasty tea bags for that to be affordable. 100 half decent teabags each day would be barely cheaper than smoking.

dhissami3• 13 years ago

Tea is one area where I go for the expensive stuff. It has to be pure. Drinking green tea with impurities like fluoride may or may not be killing me, but the thought of it kills the experience.

Sadly, the woman likely believed she was gaining super health benefits from her daily ritual. That or she really loved her tea.

YokoZar• 13 years ago

At some point you wonder if putting more teabags into the same pitcher doesn't actually make it any stronger. There's gotta be a saturation point for tea solutes. Except maybe for the flouride in them.

eksith5• 13 years ago

It stops being stronger at some point I think. The water can only hold so much of the infusion. I have no scientific evidence other than my own observations -- and that's far from scientific.

"Too much" is generally a relative term depending on where you're from (although this lady didn't fit the customs of the locale) since people drink it both in the morning, evening and stometimes in the afternoon.

These cases also tend to show up in Sri Lanka, which has a tea culture as well. We also need to keep in mind that some areas have naturally high levels of fluoride in the groundwater. Without reading the detailed article (TBA), it's hard to tell if that played a part too.

Edit: Something smells fishy.

Pass it on: A 47-year-old U.S. woman developed a bone disease after drinking a pitcher of tea a day for 17 years.

The actual case hasn't been published in detail and the link to the case : http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1200995

But it mentions: Brewed tea has one of the highest fluoride contents among beverages in the United States. I'd like to see some actual backup of that with hard data.

lenazegher• 13 years ago

This is pure fluff.

acabal• 13 years ago

Too much of anything is going to mess with your body. I would have been surprised if drinking the equivalent of 100 tea bags daily for 17 years didn't mess this woman up.

advm• 13 years ago

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174

Daishiman• 13 years ago

Linkbait headline. You probably shouldn't each 50 packs of artificial sweetener a day either, or 5 pounds of ice cream.

OGinparadise• 13 years ago

after she drank a pitcher of tea made from at least 100 tea bags daily, for 17 years, researchers report.

Duh! Also 100 tea bags daily is a lot more than what people call "too much"!

Too much water will also cause death http://www.smh.com.au/national/bushwalker-died-from-drinking...

Shenglong• 13 years ago

I am disgusted that they chose to measure tea in bags.

/teasnob

eru6• 13 years ago

Yes. But it seems that lady made her tea from bags.

rbanffy• 13 years ago

"100 tea bags daily, for 17 years" almost qualifies as an OCD.

WayneDB• 13 years ago

Was there ever any proof that drinking fluoride prevents cavities? (As opposed to applying it directly to the teeth.)

Too Much Tea Causes Unusual Bone Disease

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