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As I’ve said before, we here at McWoof Worldwide Enterprises make the mistakes so you don’t have to. Here’s one I didn’t see coming. I’m a tea drinker. Every morning, I sit with my husband and drink tea from our lovely tea set with pretty pink roses on it. The fact that we can’t even form sentences until halfway through our second cup doesn’t bother us in the least. After all, caffeine is everyone’s favorite addiction. It’s cute, harmless, vaguely intellectual. You can openly admit to being a zombie until you get your fix and no one will ever suggest rehab. I’m here to tell you, rehab may be in order. After years of drinking tea, recently I noticed something strange. Every afternoon around 2PM, I’d feel as if a helmet of doom had clamped itself onto my head. It was so unfamiliar I didn’t know what was happening. There was nothing particularly wrong in my life, so I couldn’t figure out why I was so sad and angry. I felt like I was becoming a different person, and not a person I wanted to be. Then one morning, as I’m vaccuuming my apartment, I realize I’m dancing around the living room like a lunatic. That’s when it hits me: I’m having mood swings. Well, this is new, think I. I’m an even-keel sort of gal. I don’t have mood swings. So I hit Google (as you do). After ruling out brain tumors, alien abduction, and several other slightly less likely culprits, I hit the motherlode. Caffeine. Turns out, countless people have found themselves in similar situations only to discover that caffeine was the bad guy. Yes, it sure does pick you up in the morning. And then it drops you off in the afternoon. I guess I’d upped my caffeine intake so much in the morning that my afternoon drop-off had become unbearable. I mean really unbearable. The very next day, I drank half my usual amount of tea (one cup instead of two) and whammo. No helmet of doom. I’m currently on my way down to no tea at all, and I haven’t seen the helmet since. So there. Caffeine. It’s not adorable after all. 10 Responses to “Mistake #476: Tea”Leave a Reply |
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hmm… i heard about the caffeine in tea, but never realized that it has that much of the effect ;0
weren’t there also studies about how good green tea or white tea are?
in any case, i do think they are healther than energy drinks, or anything sweetened
You should probably check for yourself, but I think black tea has as many anti-oxidants as green tea and approximately the same amount of caffeine. The true learning experience for me wasn’t that tea is bad for you, but how easy it is to get hooked on it and how profoundly it effected my moods.
This is why you need to have caffeine after lunch too stupid!
D’oh!
oh yea, i totally get what you mean about getting hooked on…
i actually don’t have the knowledgebase of the teas themselves other than from the wikipedia….. and yes, i probably should test myself.
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on a side note, i read on paper that a st*rbucks closed down some place near vancouver.. guess there’ll be lots of high-tension and unhappy people in that neighbourhood
I actually have this theory that the rise in stomach problems, insomnia, and diagnoses of bi-polar disorder probably coincides with the growth of Starbucks. But I haven’t done the research. It’s just a theory.
damo is a genius. 4-5 cups of day keeps me in that “dancing around the living room like a lunatic” mood all day. the answer isn’t less caffeine – it’s more.
The dancing I could take, egipsey. It’s the lunacy I can do without.
dude, i’ve been reading a lot of stuff lately about how coffee might be good for you. that’s mostly about the caffeine. here’s an article that lays it out. this doesn’t cancel out the downsides. it’s just about using it in moderation.
http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-food
Yeah, but the problem with moderation is that it’s a very difficult balance to maintain. And I think when you’ve gotten yourself to the point where you can’t wake up on your own, that’s not really moderation any more. I don’t know any coffee or tea drinkers who can wake up easily without it. It’s possible that caffeine has the medical benefits mentioned in that article, but often in these kinds of studies correlation is mistaken for causation.
At any rate, I’m definitely in the camp who can’t handle caffeine, no matter how much I like it.
Incidentally, I recently read that smoking decreases a woman’s chance of developing uterine cancer, but I’m not taking that up either.