HEALTH :: IS TEA THE NEW COFFEE, ASK BARACK
POST by NVus
The answer to this question may now be yes. As I grew up I was never a coffee drink, and to this day I’m no coffee drinker but lately have been more into tea. Being sick these last few days I have gained a different perspective about tea as before I thought it just tasted good but it is an alternative to medicine. I will try when I’m tired and wake up to drink some coffee and see it has the same type of effect as my often used tool to wake up, Pepsi.
from LA TIMES
There’s no doubt that coffee holds a unique place in our culture. You know the routine by now. A colleague wants to talk to you about a project — let’s have coffee. You want to catch up with an old friend — let’s have coffee. Someone wants to ask you out on a date, but is either too chicken or doesn’t really want to pony up that much cash — let’s go get coffee.
But tea — cold or hot — is giving coffee some competition. It is the second most widely consumed beverage in the world. (The first is water.) We’ve recently been bombarded with messages about the ancient drink’s health benefits. Starbucks is unveiling a new line of tea drinks — London Fog Latte, anyone? And as it turns out, bottled tea beverages are one of President-elect Barack Obama’s favorite things.
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