• collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    The world leader is probably a 700 pound woman in Alabama drinking sweet tea. You can get type 2 just by being in a room with her.

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    Considering how much tea some people drink, the person who’s actually #1 probably knows they’re in the top 10, surely.

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      How do we define it? The volume of liquid, or the weight of tea used for brewing?
      I’ve seen to many people drinking what’s closer to milky brackish water than a tea

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        That’s true, and people steep it for varying lengths of time. Can such a thing be measured?

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          I’d argue yes. What people care about more is minimum steep time and minimum leaves by weight per mL water. You can use the brew ratio for this to actually define your tea to a standard like black tea. Though you’d have to define brew ratio which I trust the British to do.

          After you define those things though, you’d probably measure the amount of liquid and kind of ignore the weight of the tea and steep time, so long as they go over the minimum per serving. Unless you want to argue that adding more leaves/steep time means that you’re consuming more tea, which seems wrong.

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            Yup, if anyone can come up with an adequate measure for this, it’ll be the British. They’ll probably use some stupid units for it though, but fortunately online conversion tools are available.

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    I have about 4 pints / 2ish litres each day, so I reckon I’m placed high on that list.

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        That’s simply not true. If it was, the whole of Northern Ireland would be struck down with kidney stones. Tea is not great for you if you have them, but it doesn’t cause them in everyone.

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        From my quick searching I’ve seen pretty mixed answers. The studies I found seemed to say that it didn’t contribute to kidney stones, the extra water offset the extra oxalate and some even said the risk of kidney stones was lower. But that was for “moderate amounts”.

        Tea and coffee in moderation are not a problem. While tea and coffee do contain some oxalate, the extra fluid outweighs any possible disadvantage. In fact, some studies suggest that drinking moderate amounts of tea and coffee can actually lower the risk of kidney stones. In general, if you do drink caffeinated beverages, keep your daily amount of caffeine to no more than 400 milligrams. That’s equal to four or five cups of regular coffee.

        A meta-analysis based on 3 studies showed that the relationship between tea consumption and kidney stones was borderline nonlinear, with a 4% decrease in the risk of kidney stones for each 110 ml/day increase in tea consumption [15].

        Interesting.

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    I bet that same person leaves a bunch of half cups around. I want categories. Most tea drank when every cup is drank to the last drop.

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    You may not know that you’re at the TOP of the leaderboard, but you probably have a pretty good idea that you drink a lot of tea.

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      Err, no. No, it isn’t.

      Now I’m thinking about the poor toilet bowl, the mess in the toilet. And how it’s definitely gonna be left in the next toilet in a pub I have to visit 😥

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          Forget knives. In the UK, the police are so full of shit that they’re asking people to hand-in Zombie blades and Machetes. Those poor constipated bastards.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    Hmm, now I’m afraid to know what the most American individual would be. Sugar? Oil from deep fried foods? It’s probably simpler to just go based on BMI.

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      Well,

      A) logically someone has done the most X in Y so long as one person did X one time there. Like, not only would there also be someone in the US who drank the most tea, there’s also someone in the UK who shit the most this year too, and the US would have their own most-shitter, and then the most-shitter in the entire world may be one of those two guys, or they may be the most-shitter from China or even Luxembourg. Same for “playing volleyball” or “stubbing your toe,” ad nauseum.

      B) In the US the real question isn’t sugar but HFCS, we barely have real sugar here unfortunately due to a revenue generating scheme dating back to like the 50s or some shit.