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Potential Non-Medicinal Benefits of Tea
Something working in tea's favor is that there are several benefits of drinking tea that are unrelated to the medicinal qualities of the tea itself. In other words, the simple act of drinking nearly any kind of decaffeinated tea can have a fairly unique impact on your ability to reduce your anxiety. The following are very real benefits of drinking tea, even if the tea has zero medicinal value:

Hydration – Any excuse to drink more liquids is a good excuse. Your body needs to be hydrated when you have anxiety. Many people with anxiety don't drink enough water, and this always makes anxiety symptoms worse. Drinking any type of beverage can be helpful, but tea, especially, is a healthy drink that has no additives that can contribute to poorer health. That makes it a smart drink to add to your diet.
Calm Activity – Drinking tea is also a slow, calm activity. That is something more people with anxiety need. They need an opportunity to sit back and allow themselves to relax. You can't run around with your tea. The simple act of drinking tea is the type of naturally calming activity that can be very healthy for the spirit.
Routine – Finally, drinking tea becomes part of a routine, and routines themselves are naturally relaxing. Chances are you'll pour yourself a cup of tea regularly and sit down with a paper or the TV and simply enjoy your life. That routine may not be an anxiety cure on its own, but every little bit helps.
There are also the potential benefits of antioxidants that may be beneficial for overall health, and when your body is healthy your anxiety is less prone to extreme fluctuations.

None of these are medicinal in any way, and none of these are cures for anxiety. But every little bit helps, and these additional benefits of drinking tea are very real and beneficial for those that are suffering.

 

So, basically, normal tea is believed to be good for you.

But some people drink it with lots of sugar in it, though. That's believed to be really bad for you. Tooth decay, blood-sugar disease and all that.

Worst I've drank for my taste is in West Africa. It's excessively strong, and excessively sweet. They have the taste for it, so hey. They drink a lot of sugar in their Chai in India as well. That much sugar is a no-no for me, but I do like Indian spiced teas. They taste amazing to my taste buds!

 

I like Yorkshire Tea.

 

 

Talking of which, see here:

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...l#post11680133

 

To be perfectly honest, tea is a very personal thing. I don't like anyone making me my tea. I like my tea my way only. Some people have learnt my way for me, but when they sometimes made mistake with my first mug of tea in the morning, my whole day could have been spoilt had I not poured it down the sink and made a right one for myself.

I know you're hung up on the type of tea, and of course the preparation of it. For me, I don't mind Yorkshire tea. PG Tips and Assam Tea are fine, too. Earl Grey is occasionally good. English Breakfast tea should be banned. It has no kick to it, whatsoever! You might as well drink boiled water FFS! Tetley is also terrible in taste, with metallic taste to it. it can still be sold, and it can be bought to feed the unwanted guests.

About making of it, of course you should brew it properly first, before sticking some milk in it. That's a common sense! But I remember you and RA Dunk talking about 80 degree temp and stuff like that. That is going a bit too far, as no one sits around with a thermometer, gauging tea water temperature FFS!

 

This is an interesting read on the perfect cuppa and Yorkshire tea

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2...uppa_showdown/

 

I've just noticed another tea make in this^ article i.e. Typhoo tea. That's another very bad tasting tea imo. I'm sure some like Typhoo tea, and that's cool.

 

I hate Typhoo, no matter how hard I try to make a 'good' cuppa out of it, it's as weak as dishwater. Tetley is little better. Yet that is the free stuff work provide, so it has to do when I'm there, unless I take my own. Weird thing is, our own brand, Fairtrade tea is nicer, yet they don't get that?

 

I'm going off coffee lately , might take up chai flavoured tea

 

Strange, Lisa. Most stores take pride in promoting and selling fair trade consumables. Most workplaces take pride in having fair trade consumables in their staff rooms. I don't understand why your workplace do not provide and thus promote their own brand's fair trade tea in your work kitchen/staff room. Is it because the fair trade tea is more expensive than Typhoo, or is it to do with strictly ensuring the sale of the fair trade tea, rather than occasionally writing a pack off/down for staff use?

 

I honestly don't know. I think I will ask. Perhaps others are happy with the crappy tea. I think the FT is more expensive off the shelf, but I wouldn't have thought that would matter too much to us as a company, as obviously we don't pay shelf price for it. I know we obviously don't pay off the shelf price for branded goods either, but generally the profit margins for our own brands are bigger. Perhaps that is not the case for FT goods.

To be honest, I could quite easily believe this is something no other member of staff has given any thought to, hence we just get what we're given.

 

Hm. That could be it, then.

Charity begins at home. I'm sure you know my reason for applying this phrase here. Ideally, your workplace should drink FT tea themselves before they promote it among others. Perhaps your workplace has set targets to meet with FT tea sales in particular, and perhaps your area managers simply wants FT tea to be bought at the shelf price, end of. So buying it out of the petty cash for internal expenditure may mean reducing the number of loo rolls in the staff toilet. I knew of a workplace where the manager had put a notice up in the loo: " Strict Notice: Use maximum 4 sheets of loo roll per person only, to wipe your backside"!

Question it, Lisa. It will be interesting to know what they say. Food for Thought, as FT do-gooders say.

Mind you, just getting what you're given isn't fair trade either. And I do know that we don't live in utopia.

 

What do you mean by Chai flavoured tea?

If you're talking about those readymade Chai tea bags that some companies e.g. Twinings are selling, don't touch them even with your barge pole! They're horrible to taste. Just make your own Chai.

 

What an anus!