tea-and-hydration

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TEA AND HYDRATION

A healthy adult should try to drink 8 cups of fluid every day. That's about 2 litres. Did you know 2 or 3 cups of tea a day can help give your body the fluid it needs?

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Unsweetened tea brings you the purifying effect of water, which helps remove toxins from the body.  

Myth :

Some people think tea, or other drinks containing caffeine, have a diuretic effect (make you pass water more often) which would lower your body’s hydration level.

Truth :

Scientists have looked at how drinking caffeine affects fluid balance. Here's what they found: If you have a very large amount of caffeine in a single serving, the equivalent to the amount found in 5-8 cups of tea, you pass more water. If you have single servings of caffeine (at the levels you find in a cup of tea) it has little or no effect Regular caffeine users become habituated to the effects of caffeine, diminishing its action.

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