| It seems as though every week a new articles | | | | drinking green tea can help you burn up to 80 |
| surfaces about the pros and cons of drinking | | | | calories a day. 80 calories? It seems as though |
| either coffee or tea. One week caffeine is a | | | | you would burn just as many calories lifting your |
| mortal enemy, the next a tolerable friend. | | | | coffee cup. |
| Likewise, green tea surfaces as a miracle cure all, | | | | So Which Is It... Coffee or Tea? |
| only to fade to a questionable metabolic stimulant. | | | | Most of the other information out there about the |
| If you enjoy either coffee or tea, here are some | | | | benefits of coffee and/or tea seem to say the |
| things to consider. | | | | same things: coffee is an antioxidant but high |
| According to an article released last year by ABC | | | | amounts of caffeine can be bad; tea also has |
| News, Study: Drinking Coffee Has Health Benefits, | | | | healing qualities, but is not the diet miracle the |
| coffee is America's number one source of | | | | headlines would like to suggest it is. Many studies |
| antioxidants, the agents that help protect you | | | | have mentioned that decaf coffee offers just as |
| from toxins, starve off cancer and heart disease. | | | | many antioxidants as regular coffee, which |
| But what about the barrage of information about | | | | removes any negative effects brought on by |
| the negative effects of caffeine that surface | | | | caffeine. |
| along side articles like this one from ABC News? | | | | When it comes down to it, drinking coffee or tea |
| Even this article from ABC points out that | | | | can be mutually beneficially in moderation. If you |
| caffeine does in fact raise your blood pressure. So | | | | prefer drinking coffee over tea, consider drinking |
| is tea a better source of antioxidants, since it | | | | less to limit your intake of caffeine, or switch to |
| contains less caffeine? | | | | decaf. If you prefer tea, great, but don't assume |
| Tea has less than one third the amount of | | | | that drinking high volumes of it will magically burn |
| caffeine than coffee, which can be great for | | | | off the donut you had for breakfast. |
| people who suffer from indigestion or headaches | | | | Sources |
| after drinking coffee (Grieger). Grieger goes on to | | | | ABC News Online. Study: Drinking Coffee Has |
| mention some additional benefits of drinking tea, | | | | Health Benefits. 28 August 2005. 31 August 2006. |
| such as an increased metabolism and disease | | | | abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=1074559 |
| fighting qualities. According to ABC News, coffee | | | | Grieger, Lynn. "Top 10 Health Benefits of Drinking |
| also helps prevent disease, so coffee and tea | | | | Tea" 5 April 2005. 31 August 2006. |
| seem to be on equal par there. And in reference | | | | health.ivillage.com/eating/0,,7kq79l90,00.html. |
| to an increased metabolism, Grieger mentions that | | | | |