5 Things You Don't Know About Green Tea

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  Posted by Awotunsin Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:57am PDT

  yahoo is great,but more humours are required.

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  Posted by Cranberry Lips Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:35am PDT

  "1. It’s great for teeth"

  Fluoride just replaces the iodide in teeth and bones. The only beneficial element from the halides group (bromide, fluoride, chloride and iodide) is iodide. Fluoride can make bones brittle, can cause skeletal fluorosis, and can permanently yellow your teeth if you're exposed to it when you're little.

  Fluoride is a by-product of aluminum manufacture. It's cheaper to put it in our drinking water than to store it as a hazardous material. The only reason green and black tea have it is because they absorb it from the soil.

  Iodide is what should be in our water, not fluoride. Fluoride was first used by Hitler in the 1930's in concentration camps. Do you really think it was so the prisoners' teeth would be cavity free? The U.S didn't start using fluoride in water until 1945.

  So drink green tea for your health, but use the same precautions you use with fish and mercury.

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  Posted by CarolB Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:34am PDT

  Green tea is wonderful. It is also used in skin care. Green tea mixed with other herbs makes great skin toner to restore ph balance. Addtionally you can mix the green tea with the right herbs for your skin type.

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  Posted by Linan Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:25pm PDT

  What is the caffeine content of green tea? I know it is less, but how much less? Thank you

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  Posted by Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:35am PDT

  I never knew it was used for so much. I am gonna have to try using it more often.

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  Posted by Flo D Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:15pm PDT

  can you drink green tea if you are taking blood pressur medcine?

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  Posted by Anita Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:32pm PDT

  Diana B, you got it completely right. Floride was once used as a rat poison...do we really want to drink it?

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  Posted by Destiny Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:56am PDT

  I didn't know that Green Tea was good for tired feet! You know what i'll be soaking my feet in later, my green tea has cranberry in it i wonder what that will add to it, if anything?

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  Posted by Ickreeet! Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:49pm PDT

  My Asian gf thinks I need green tea and sushi and whatever other Eastern Culture stuff that drives us westerners crazy with our poppy fads.

  I'm sure there's plenty of ways our other daily foods and resources can do this stuff, and, personally, I have a feeling that I can clean my do most, if not all, of this with milk.

  (Dunno about air freshners... And maybe it isn't good to slosh milk around my teeth, but maybe it ain't so bad. Who knows. It isn't so bad though cuz I got a toothbrush. And I take the garbage out when it gets full. No worries.)

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  Posted by susan h Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:08am PDT

  I realize it's the hot thing but, it put me in the ER. I've been known to throw an irregular beat but, this scared me and I had it checked out. Had the EKG blood work etc.....answer..quit the green tea...go to Chai decaf or regular, There's also sleepytime tea Bye.

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