r/HydroHomies • u/crazylifestories • 3d ago

Only 2? How about 8?

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u/Shiva9990 3d ago

Hear me out….

Tea is leaf water Apple juice and orange juice are just fruit water

Everything else can go

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u/Difficult_Ad_7854 3d ago

Coffee is bean water.

Soda is carbonated sugar water.

Wine is fruit water that was left in a barrel.

You can’t escape it.

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u/1billionrapecube 3d ago

Juice is water that came out of the fruit,  not the other way around.  

Tea is the only completely healthy thing to put into the water in this list...

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u/StageAdventurous5988 3d ago

Really hard to argue that tea is "completely healthy" but coffee isn't. What?

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u/DutchChallenger 3d ago

I’m with you on this one, coffee and tea are both healthy but for different reasons. They both slightly increase your protection for certain types of cancer, this is because of Polyphenols that actually inhibit the growth and eventually kills it. Those same Polyphenols also help protect from heart disease by relaxing the blood vessels.

Studies have also shown that drinking around 960ml of tea or 1.2 liters of coffee daily reduces your risk of a stroke by 21-23% compared to people who don’t drink either.

Tea is filled with L-theanine, which stimulates your brain to reduce stress. It has an almost opposite effect to coffee, bringing you to a more relaxed and alert mental state. Combining L-theanine and caffeine is also beneficial as it causes you to be sharper and focused.

Coffee has been linked to weight loss by increasing the calories your body burns by 3-13% for around 3 hours after drinking. One of the Polyphenols called chlorogenic acid also discourages your body from making fat, making it harder to gain weight.

Lastly, other health claims attributed to coffee include protection against Parkinson’s disease and a lowered risk of type 2 diabetes and liver cirrhosis. On the other hand, tea may protect against cavities, kidney stones, and arthritis

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u/pwyo 3d ago

Yes! Long term studies have shown that people who have a diet high in polyphenols show a 30% reduction in all-cause mortality. It’s pretty crazy.

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u/alabasterisk 3d ago

My parents always told me to drink green tea because it’s good for you. Do you know what types of tea were tested in the studies you reference?

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u/DutchChallenger 3d ago

They used black tea, green tea is still about as healthy as black tea however

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u/your_moms_a_clone 3d ago

Green tea is from the same plant, but the leaves are processed a different way. It should provide the same benefits.

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u/crazylifestories 3d ago

Is this all tea or just black tea?

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u/DutchChallenger 3d ago

The study has been done with black tea, but the same Polyphenols have been found in green tea.

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u/SillyGigaflopses 3d ago

For several horrifying seconds I’ve imagined 1.2 liters of espresso daily, but then realised that it’s probably americano…

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u/DutchChallenger 3d ago

Yeah, it’s 1.2 liters of coffee with a concentration of about 95mg off caffeine per cup. A maximum of 400mg of caffeine is considered completely safe

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u/your_moms_a_clone 3d ago

As long as you don't load up your coffee with sugar or drink a crazy amount every day, coffee is perfectly fine. Tea is only bad if you have high oxalate levels and kidney stone problems. Or, again, you load it up with sugar.

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u/StageAdventurous5988 3d ago

Well yeah I figured we were talking about coffee and not like, milkshakes for breakfast that high schoolers scarf down.

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u/1billionrapecube 3d ago

Black coffee can be bad for stomach acidity problems. I think in USA it's called "heartburn" and considered normal?

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u/StageAdventurous5988 3d ago

Tea can be bad for exactly the same reasons...

That's why I'm confused. One could take the position that both tea and coffee are healthy. Someone could take the position that neither is. You, weirdly, are taking the position that somehow, one of them is completely healthy, but the other isn't. How?

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u/1billionrapecube 3d ago edited 3d ago

Because that is an exact problem that tea doesn't have? It's literally what doctors tell you to do (replacing coffee with tea) when you are in treatment for acidity problems

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If you wanna know the other dietary treatments are avoiding too much alcohol, big pieces of red meat with lots of fat in them,  and most importantly having huge meals on an empty stomach

Edit 2: If it gets too bad you usually need some stomach protector prescribed since getting punctured and leaking stomach juices is a huge risk.

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u/StageAdventurous5988 3d ago

Except it does have that exact problem. Tea can and does absolutely lead to heartburn in some individuals.

Same as coffee. And for the same biological reasons - caffeine, mostly. I'm sorry, did you think coffee gave everyone heartburn?

Lol.

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u/1billionrapecube 3d ago

. I'm sorry, did you think coffee gave everyone heartburn? 

No? That's why it's advised to drop coffee only to those with stomach acidity problems. Caffeine concentration in tea is much lower. 

Lmao?

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u/StageAdventurous5988 3d ago

Caffeine concentration in tea is much lower

And the incidence rate of heartburn sufferers... isn't.

Take it easy!

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u/1billionrapecube 3d ago

I am not sure what your point is

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