Does iced tea hydrate or dehydrate the body?  Seems like the water more than offsets the caffeine.?
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Tea does not have enough caffiene to dehydrate the body. Strong coffee does.\nAlcohol too - Less than 10% alcohol hydrates more than dehydrates, while more than 10% dehydrates more than hydrates.
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Funny you should ask.  I am trying to drink more, well I'm trying to drink only water.  I brought a gallon of drinking water to work with me today, half is gone.  I noticed when I stopped drinking anything with caffeine, my joints didn't ache anymore.
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I'm no doctor, but I have read that drinking plain ol' water (not sodas which have sodium or other popular drinks) helps the body to not retain fluid. Sorry, don't know the mechanics or where I read it. Like the other person said that hope there is a doc involved in this as decreasing fluid intake could be hard on body and kidneys unless under medical supervision.
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I've been drinking G.T.'s Ginger Ade flavored Kombucha (which is what I thinking your talking about) and I really like it.  Got it at Henry's market (organic food store).  Could be just mental, but I feel as though it does give me just the right amount of energy.  Use to drink Monster but that made me crazy.  I also feel as though the Kombucha drink does have detoxifying/cleaning properties.  Does taste a bit like vinegar so if you can get over that you'll be ok.  I rather drink my Kombucha in the morning than coffee or the Monster.
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Tea as a whole can hinder the absorption of Iron, so be careful.  If you're taking a suppliment, a cup shouldn't be a problem, though.
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no, it's not true. \ntheir religious tenents state that they MAY not, but they are indeed capable of having caffiene. \n\nas for the tea, your friend was possibly just poorly informed, or perhaps it was herbal or decaf.
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It helps flush out your system frequently (gets rid of toxins and what have you - ensures good working kidneys - has no calories or refined sugars - hint hint. It hydrates your body, replenishes sweat loss and is essential since more than 75% of our body is made up of water. \n\nWater is required by every cell in the body as nourishment and to remove wastes. When water becomes scarce, the body tries to limit the amount it loses through breathing, mucous production, urination, perspiration and bowel movements.\n\nYOu lose water even when you breathe since the carbon dioxide you breathe out is humid. Coffee, tea and soda all contain caffeine which is a known diuretic and will actually accentuate the symptoms of fluid loss. Fruit juices are more concentrated in sugar than your body's fluids and so the body will attempt to dilute them in the gut thereby causing a loss of water from other areas of the body
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Tea isn't a fat burner, fat is burnt when your body needs energy, anyone who tells you otherwise is full of it.  Save your money and drink water and exercise.
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I have actually thought quite a bit about this.  I have come to believe that water is best before and after exercising as you are using it to keep yourself hydrated, and not for "energy".  I use Gatorade during the actual exercise to keep me hydrated AND keep my energy level at as close to peak as possible.  \n\nHave fun with your project.
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your dehydrated not drinking enough water. 2ltr a day at least of pure water not tea, coke, coffee, ect ect is needed to be healthy
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Tea provides antioxidants that help thwart cancer cells, but nothing can guarantee prevention.\n\nEveryone has cancer cells in their body.  They activate in some people and not in other people?  This is why it's a good idea to do what you can to lead a "healthy" life.\n\nFew people know that cancer cells cannot live without sugar.  Some think this is why low carb diets are healthier overall.\n\nYou're fine drinking tea instead of water.  Tea is water except for a few specks of tea leaf sediment.
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Diet, caffeine free, pepsi. Sure it's boring, but my beer days are over. Trying to cut down on the iced tea. By the way, do you notice how many people say ice tea and how many say iced tea?\nSeems about 50/50 to me. Might make a good question, your welcome to give it a try.
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Biologically speaking, caffeine impedes the speed of cell reproduction. So seeing as how thousands and thousands of dead skin cells are shed each day, we replenish our cells constantly. Caffeine also severely dehydrates you.\n\nBut as long as you watch your caffeine intake and hydrate, no problems should be too noticeable.
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Caffeine does NOT draw water from cells-it acts as a diuretic because of the specific effect it has on regulation of kidney function, not because it does anything to cellular water balance- One effect of caffeine it to cause release of internal stores of calcium, and may indirectly increase metabolic rate
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Tea is good for you anyways,  and if it has caffeine in it yes its gonna boost your metabolism. Which in turn will help you lose weight.
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Yes it is good to drink eight 8-oz glasses of water a day....it keeps you hydrated. Yes water is very good. You can swim in it, have water fights. The world would be like mars if not for the wonder of water. That should be enough convinving for you. You should not slam down a whole glass of ice cold water in the morning and figure you are good to go for the rest of the day though. This is not healthy for you.\n\nPops are diuretics, they make you pee. When you drink pops you end up peeing more than you drank in, so you actually loose water.\n\n(I think this was in the wrong catagory)
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"Coffee has more caffeine than tea" --> This is the general misconception among people.\n\nTEA actually holds a higher caffeine content than coffee. Note that the TEA i'm referring here is English tea.\n\nChinese tea and Green tea, however, holds a very small amount of caffeine. These 2 types are consider the most healthy form of tea (with caffeine amount in green tea the lowest)