Many people believe that Coffee is bad for your nerves. It also supposedly dehydrates you rather quickly if you drink too much. Tea on the other hand is supposed to be much milder on the body, and cleans out your digestive system. I personally dont know of this is either fact or bullshit, but I would like to know more about the impact of both. Which is better for you, and why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee
Coffee is flavored water, how can drinking it dehydrate you? Both Tea and coffee have caffeine. Coffee is the only drink for breakfast, tea for breakfast is just a hate crime.
Even with the caffeine, drinking coffee or tea is still a net gain of fluid. They don't dehydrate you. I think the biggest difference between coffee and tea is the much higher caffeine content of coffee, that can make your heart race, mess up your sleeping schedule, raise blood pressure, and generally make you feel more stressed out. Plus, don't people tend to put more milk and/or sugar in their tea than in their coffee?
As someone who is diabetic and has high blood pressure, I'm always interested in finding natural ways to help my medication along. If drinking two cups of warm green tea a day would help in that area, I'm all for it!
It all depends on what type of coffee / tea and what you put in either of them. The question by itself is too open-ended for a simple answer. For me, tea used to always be the iced, sweet variety and coffee always hot and always something "old" people drank. Find out what you like and don't be afraid to try new things while being aware of the positives and negatives of what you take in.
There is more caffeine in tea than coffee...... .......but there is more caffeine in a cup of coffee than a cup of tea.
Yeah, I've heard that recent research has pretty much debunked the claim that drinking coffee dehydrates one.
Drinking one helps you build an empire spanning the globe. Drinking the other makes you a slack jawed faggot lugging your Macbook between diversity seminars. IMO.
I just cut the bullshit and take my stimulants in pill form these days. Spares me the trouble of learning to stomach vile concoctions like coffee.
I stopped drinking Coffee about two years ago thinking that I was doing myself a favor. I normally drank it like water, get all wound up on Caffiene, then suffer a major energy crash a few hours later. I also found myself to be really figgity at times too. Tea was suppose to be the "shoe in" replacement for it. I slowly started drinking tea a little at a time. Now I find myself drinking it as often as I did Coffee. I dont get the HIGH/LOW effects that coffee gave me, but I still fear that I have slowly developed an addiction to it! I'm thinking about going back to drinking coffee again, but Im not so sure that I should!
