People in some parts of the world like to drink black tea. The difference between green tea and black tea is the same as the difference between green bananas and black bananas: black bananas have more flavor, but they are dead. Black tea has twice the caffeine and one-tenth the health benefits and adding sugar and milk just gives even less health benefits. A little black tea now and then is fine, especially in the winter, but your staple should be green tea. White tea is also good and all herbal teas are fine in moderation.
One of the reasons that Asians tend to be thin is that they drink green tea with every meal. The tea helps to dissolve fat, which, as we have learned, is hard to digest. Lipitor and other statin drugs keep cholesterol levels down by blocking its absorption in the liver. Green tea can dissolve cholesterol in the stomach, before it even enters the blood stream.
In addition, green tea is warm and warm fluids facilitate the process of digestion, while cold fluids impede it. The enzymes in the stomach work in a limited temperature range. If you cool the stomach below a certain threshold, you essentially turn off your digestion. Of course it doesn't stay turned off for very long – just long enough for the body to warm up the environment, but forcing the body to have to do this is counter-productive.
We want to be able to process our food efficiently and send it on its way. Americans have ice-cold drinks with every meal and look at the shape of the average American. Keep your digestion moving and don't make things harder than they have to be. Fluids at body temperature are best and at room temperature are good, but ice-cold are the worst. Of course, the best guide is moderation and it is OK to have that cold lemonade on a nice summer day or sip a chilled white wine with your dinner once in a while. Where did we get this obsession over ice-cold drinks?
Historically, it was a show of wealth to be able to modify the temperature of foods and drinks. Nowadays, as refrigeration is widespread, restaurant owners have perpetuated the habit of adding ice to liquids; they like it because they can fill your glass three quarters full with ice (which is cheap) and then only have to give you a quarter of the product. It saves them a lot of money and robs you of that for which you have paid. To repeat, fruit juices are concentrates and violate the moderation principle and should be taken only in moderation. I usually water juice down and don't drink it very often.
Alcohol has a drying and sedating effect, and overuse can lead the body to produce phlegm. So again, you don't want to put too much alcohol into your body either; and if you have a problem controlling your drinking, or controlling your behavior when you have been drinking, please do us all a favor and abstain.Alcohol has been used medicinally for millennia and red wine has some real health benefits; and, like everything else, it is OK in moderation. If you can't keep it in moderation, too little is better than too much.
Energy drinks contain too many concentrates to be moderate in any way, so stay away from them. Gatorade® and other sport drinks are loaded with electrolytes that are needed if you are exerting yourself for an extended period of time. They can be thought of as a medication, but not as a beverage. I do wish that Gatorade would stop using high fructose corn syrup in their product.
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