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Advice from a Tea Bag
A cup full of health and a tag full of encouragement.
Move over fortune cookies. There’s a new kid in town handing out advice and encouragement.
Tea bags!
Be fearless; know that all will be provided at the right time.
I’m not a coffee drinker. I never have been one. I abhor the taste of coffee. Although — in a funny twist, I adore the aroma of coffee. Go figure.
But I am a tea drinker.
Not in an English ‘sit down and have a cuppa’ fashion. I rarely drink it hot. Although tonight I’m having a cup of hot tea. Usually, it’s cold green tea. Every day — or most days — for the last twenty plus years.
It’s Dr. Weil’s fault. I’m blaming it on him. Yes, I’m pointing a finger in his direction.
In my quest to get healthier, and to avoid prescriptions for my sugar that was starting to run too high, and my cholesterol which was almost three times normal limits, I started looking at what I was putting in my mouth. I was reading Dr. Andrew Weil’s book, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health and he advised drinking two cups of green tea every day.
He wrote:
“Not only is green tea free of most of the stomach irritants in coffee, it…
