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# Tea rocks
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Tea is amazing. It tastes great. And works well to keep you awake if that's what you want from it.
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# There is tea for all tastes
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There are literally hundreds if not thousands of teas out there, each one tasting different
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according to the soil the leaves were cultivated on, the fermentation method of the leaves
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and its time span. And to add to the complexity, there is an infinite way of brewing each
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one of them regarding the teapot to use, the water to brew them with and its temperature.
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There is literally no one way to brew them and the subjective taste of each drinker is all
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that matters. That includes sugar and cream. I usually drink mine alone, but sometimes i
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add sugar and/or milk. I care about enjoying it, not maxing pointless supposed health benefits, see below.
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# It can be inexpensive
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Or as expensive as you want it to be. You only need a cup, a stove, water and tea in
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bag or loose leaf. Paradoxically, high quality tea can be cheaper than inexpensive tea
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at $/cup when bought at not-that-large quantities.
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# Tea doesn't cause jitters as much as coffee
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Sure it can if you go and drink 1 liter in one go. But tea doesn't have as much caffeine
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as coffee, with an average cup of tea having around half of that of an average cup of coffee.
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# There are alleged health benefits to drinking tea
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I don't think these matter much. Better to excercise and eat less sugar than any amount of tea
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you can drink before it becomes bad for you.
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Just don't overdo it close to meals. It seems some components hinder iron absorption.
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Plus, the nutrients in tea don't absorb well with food/fat in your stomach
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(thus no milk or cream if you care about that stuff). This goes for caffeine as well.
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