Expanding a little on "nothing:"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apropos of Nothing - I have never drunk coffee. I drink water pretty exclusively.
Is that because you don't like the taste?
My wife loves the smell of freshly ground coffee, but hates the taste of a good cuppa!
She says, "If only it tasted as good as it smells!"
Although I am think of drinking green tea for its reported diet effects (helps one lose weight).
Uhhh, I'm not supporting that. I think it was an ad writer's pap. Green (or most any other) tea is a tasty brew of plant leaves, which have all manner of chemicals in them, among them caffeine, which is bitter.
But, the only diet advantage I can think of is, drink tea instead of eating fattening foods. And the addictive properties of caffeine keep you going back for more. Tea, that is...
http://home.howstuffworks.com/caffeine1.htm
Only I am not sure about the caffeine. I've never liked caffeine. OTOH, most chocolate has caffeine. I wonder how much green tea has in comparison to most chocolate bars?
The following is from a Google search on cafffeine:
* Typical drip-brewed coffee contains 100 mg per 6-ounce cup.
* Typical brewed tea contains 70 mg per 6-ounce cup.
* Typical colas (Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, etc.) contain 50 mg
per 12-ounce can. Things like Jolt contain 70 mg per 12-ounce can.* Typical milk chocolate contains 6 mg per ounce.
* Anacin contains 32 mg per tablet.
I am not contributing to this discussion, at all, am I? :-)
But maybe someone knows the answer to my question.
Marnie aka Doe
Hope that aids your knowledge of both caffeine and green tea. I just know you'll like the chocolate info! <g>
keith whaley
