Tea W/ Milk Safer to Drink (from the "Here we go again" dept.)

The Herald Sun ^ | 14apr03 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Tea with milk 'safer'

From correspondents in Auckland
14apr03

SCIENTISTS have found that tea with milk is a safer drink than black tea, according to reports from New Zealand.

People who drink tea without milk have relatively high levels of oxalates, waste products that have to be passed out of the body in urine, the study at Lincoln University, near Christchurch, found. In a small number of people the oxalates accumulate to form kidney stones, the New Zealand Herald reported today.

Putting milk in the tea reduces the risk because the calcium in the milk combines with the oxalate and allows it to be excreted normally.

"So it's safer to drink tea with milk, or green tea," Lincoln food scientist Geoffrey Savage told the paper.

"I wouldn't ever say that tea is bad for you, but this is something in tea that needs some consideration."

[yankeedame]

(Sigh) How did any of us ever manage to live this long?

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[Natural Law]

There is a secondary benefit of milk in tea. Tea contains high levels of tannic acid which can lead to mouth and throat cancer. Milk raises the pH and reduces effects.

[annyokie]

[vollmond]

These guys didn't get the memo that milk is bad for you? Not to mention, an exploitation of our friend, the cow? (Or that bizarre cow-goat hybrid that half-and-half comes from.)

[T Minus Four]

You WATCHED someone! LOL! Ewwww!

[Poet Laureate]

Apparently those that live so long take milk with their tea....

[ijcr]

I passed a Dodge pick up this morning, did not feel a thing.

[Poet Laureate]

"tut tut" taking tea sans the milk
say the labs and their meddlesome ilk
better throats - no more stones
and its good for our bones
and whats more, it goes down just like silk

[w_over_w]

How did any of us ever manage to live this long?

Getting colonics?

[yankeedame]

"I passed a Dodge pick up this morning, did not feel a thing."

wacka-wacka-wacka...Isn't he great,folks?! Let's give him a big hand! Remember, he'll be playin' here all week!..And don't forget to tip the waitresses!

[T Minus Four]

Whew! :-)

[nothingnew]

Don't drink any kind of tea......Drink beer.

FMCDH

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Tea basically sucks, milk makes me sick.

If God didn't want us to be happy, he wouldn't have given us beer.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"So it's safer to drink tea with milk, or green tea,"

I do drink my tea with milk, to the great puzzlement of my family. But I prefer white tea to the green.

[pawdoggie]

I drank tea with milk when I was on TDY with a British Signal Regiment. I didn't think I'd like it, but it was great.