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This morning before breakfast I was very thirsty and decided to have a glass of iced tea. My better half approached me saying it is not healthy on a empty stomach. I took this advice seriously but it made me thinking as well if any cold drinks have damaging effect on your stomach prior consuming the food first. Needless to say my grandma's stereotype (perhaps not as they knew their stuff very well) and she would react exact same way. As usual subject to discussion ...
Well, normally I would start morning from coffee in bedroom but my ever-growing love for iced tea made me do the opposite.
Again, sorry for this post being slightly OT..but I was an athlete back in the days...and it was essential for me to supply my body with fluids. You should always keep yourself hydrated. Feeling thirsty is the sign your body sends you, that you're lacking water. Sort of like the gas tank in your car when the sign comes on. However, feeling dehydrated early morning is not a good thing. There are 3 key reasons for that. Either, your apartment is too dry, your diet contains too much salt or something else in your body that is not balanced. I've used Chinese medicine in the past for multiple things and excessive thirst is a sign your body is telling you that something is wrong (doesn't have to be anything major). All I'm saying, that you may want to check it out.
I would vote for dryness in the room as a first possible scenario, salt & pepper are on my culinary list so culprits number two and eventually strenuous training yesterday could be another explanation. I'm multivitamin kind of person so I could exclude lack of other minerals in body. But I do sweat a lot during training and my better half hardly ever does. That's a huge difference between two of us. I just wonder if excessive sweating during workout with sweat literally pouring down is normal symptom. At my workplace GP told me it differed from individual to individual but I tend to look with disbelief when I see my shirt soaken wet after 1.5 hours of running around the tennis court.
Ah, in that case I'd assume, that it's just from training. Because of the nature of our bodies, women tend to have a harder time pushing themselves to the limit and therefore, tend to sweat less that men during workout. Make sure you drink plenty of electrolytes after working out (i.e Gatorade, Powerade etc.).
Tomorrow we have got the fourth and last round of the interclub with our team and I see myself playing 3-4 hours of tennis so I will need to stay in a good shape and hydrated. Four-pack of powarade is already waiting in the fridge
Back to Ice tea. Yesterday, I bought a couple lemon verbena plants, and so I made some tea by pouring boiling water over some lemon verbena, mint and a a couple sprigs of basil. Let it sit for a while and then pour over some ice. Quite yummy. If I want it sweet, I use a little stevia.
I had an Arizona Iced Tea at Terminal 5 heathrow and man was it good I was so thirsty and wanted something not only to quench my thirst but cool. How strange I find this thread and someone mentioning the brand.
Not that I want to get addicted to this stuff but would really like to buy some, so which shops stock it here in Switzerland?
Coop just started carrying three flavors of Arizona Tea. I've also seen it at Globus, but it's probably less expensive at Coop.
I will give a try to Arizona iced tea as soon as I see it on the shelves. Does Kaufland in DE sell them? Quenched my first on sugary mango flavour over weekend and it doesn't cut it for me as it is too sweet and too much kcal. Will start experimenting next week and see what I can come up with at best.
In few hours time I wiil be on the court to hit some balls for few hours and I will need combination of iced tea with still water to stay hydrated.
i grew up being told that drinking anything cold from the fridge is bad for your stomach. to this day i only drink cold thing when i absolutely have to but they are not that satisfying. i would much prefer adding a piece of ice to room temp.beverage than drinking a really cold drink from the fridge.
Excellent, it would be great if I can get hold of some. I should add that the waitress that served me, filled the glass full of ice with a couple of pieces of mint, it was just so good
Having taking several planes plus the underground and being de-hydrated a bit, this was heaven.
I'm not over-keen on over-chilled drinks, either but drinking something icy cold from the fridge first thing in the morning helps to err... shall we say "kick start" the system.
My doctor recommended this when I was pregnant and all things intestinal were a bit on the sluggish side.
It works, too.
ahh. but there is other ways of doing that too. i guess it's also part of a different life style, we drink homemade juices and concoctions a lot so that keeps everything moving well . a bit cool is ok actually, but really cold, cold from the fridge is a real shock to the system, much more than warmer things.
(anyway try papaya juice (with milk or water-yum!), it's a tasty way to keep everything running well.)
It is if you like papaya
Jacek, if you liked that bottled mango tea but found it too sweet, you may like the lipton's mango & peach pyramid bags. They have pieces of fruit in them to give the flavor (rather than artificial flavors) and are sweet enough just from the fruit that even hubby doesn't object to me using less-than-accustomed amounts of sugar in the tea when I make it.
Please keep the thread alive as we haven't discussed all the options for good iced tea yet
Really though, iced tea is one of those "as varied as your imagination" things. As sweet or not, as fruity or not, with white, green or black teas, these days there are a lot of options and even those change to some extent with the season and of course, whether or not you use fresh ingredients.
Explore the tea aisle at your local shops, there are lots and lots of different flavors of tea and a variety of teas that are great as the base to which you can add a flavored tea bag and / or some fresh fruit and other herbs.
The only thing I'd say though is to be careful about some of the teas if you've got health concerns as some have known properties, such as orange blossom tea helping with sleep, so if you know you've got a long drive ahead of you, you maybe want to avoid that particular tea.
Also, I think you'd be able to find some good looking ingredients for tea by checking out Jack's "What's' fresh" threads for a given month or season.
Peg A raises a very good point.
Artificial flavourings don't help quench your thirst over the long term.
They also leave you wanting more after the initial wash of fluid is gone. Of course, this is what the makers of these beverages want, so that you buy more and more and more....
One drink we sometimes have, is to chop up a cube of ginger from some ginger root (this is available cheaply from every coop and migros here normally. Add the juice of a lemon and boiled water (thats the way we do it) to a glass jug. Add a small amount of brown sugar if you wish. Wait to cool and drink either warm or cold. Tangy and refreshing, and easy, and no chemicals. If you want a little extra bitterness, take one half of the squeezed lemon and just throw it in the jar too!
Nice drink actually, recommend you to try that one.