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2006-10-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Paging trailing wife to the beverage aisle!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-06 04:16|| 2006-10-06 04:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Tea with a Scotch chaser maybe but tea alone dont cut it.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-10-06 11:59|| 2006-10-06 11:59|| Front Page Top

#3 :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-06 12:37|| 2006-10-06 12:37|| Front Page Top

#4 And what about those of us who can't drink the caffine? Is that what is affecting the SHL, or is it something else in black tea? And if so, is that 'something else' present in other teas, like ginger tea (Yeech! Drink it anyway) or gunpowder green tea (Ymmmmm!)?

Oh and TW, please note that I took your advise. Hopefully the lack of numbers will elevate my standing in the eyes of the Rantburg ladies!

Posted by Chinter Flarong 2006-10-06 13:04|| 2006-10-06 13:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Can't drink caffeine? What? You are human?

Posted by Evil Elvis 2006-10-06 13:07|| 2006-10-06 13:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Unfortunately yes EE, I am a human with acid-reflux. Caffine is a major trigger, if you get my drift.
I am still waiting for the Rantburg ladies to chime in!

Posted by Chinter Flarong 2006-10-06 15:47|| 2006-10-06 15:47|| Front Page Top

#7 EE, some people are hyper-sensitive to caffeine, as in heart arrhythmia and elevated blood pressure. Others use medications that prohibit it.

I'm brewing a second mug of English breakfast right now.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-06 15:47|| 2006-10-06 15:47|| Front Page Top

#8 While I love a good cup of coffee, I find that over time my muscles tense up/get ropey if I drink it too often. So instead I drink herbal tea.

Posted by remoteman 2006-10-06 16:43|| 2006-10-06 16:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Chinter Flarong, without those numbers you are just too adorable for words! If only I hadn't met Mr. Wife first, my dear. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-06 17:50|| 2006-10-06 17:50|| Front Page Top

#10 from one of the study authors:

Professor Andrew Steptoe, UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, says: This is one of the first studies to assess tea in a double-blind placebo controlled design that is, neither we nor the participants knew whether they were drinking real or fake tea. This means that any differences were due to the biological ingredients of tea, and not to the relaxing situations in which people might drink tea, whether they were familiar with the taste and liked it, and so on.

We do not know what ingredients of tea were responsible for these effects on stress recovery and relaxation. Tea is chemically very complex, with many different ingredients. Ingredients such as catechins, polyphenols, flavonoids and amino acids have been found to have effects on neurotransmitters in the brain, but we cannot tell from this research which ones produced the differences.

Nevertheless, our study suggests that drinking black tea may speed up our recovery from the daily stresses in life. Although it does not appear to reduce the actual levels of stress we experience, tea does seem to have a greater effect in bringing stress hormone levels back to normal.

Green teas and herbal teas did not have the same effect.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-06 18:39|| 2006-10-06 18:39|| Front Page Top

#11 that's nice and all, but what of us who are nauseated by even the smell of tea?

(don't like taste of coffee, but love the smell of it brewing)

guess we're doomed to get our caffeine from diet coke.

hmmmm. think i'll go get some more caffeine. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-06 19:10|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-10-06 19:10|| Front Page Top

#12 There's a chocolate tea available on the web. got all the good flavinoids and none of the fat, IIRC.

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-10-06 19:16|| 2006-10-06 19:16|| Front Page Top

#13 lopt: Thank you for that post. Looks like I will have to stick to the ginger tea. Four cups of black at this point would make me climb the walls.
TW: You are making a grown man blush!

Posted by Chinter Flarong 2006-10-06 21:05|| 2006-10-06 21:05|| Front Page Top

#14 That would be lotp.
(*sighs, scruffs toe in dirt*)

Posted by Chinter Flarong 2006-10-06 21:07|| 2006-10-06 21:07|| Front Page Top

#15 TW's right - charming indeed. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2006-10-06 21:12|| 2006-10-06 21:12|| Front Page Top

#16 I stumbled upon Starbuck's "Sumatra" ground (coffee)taken black and unsweetened about a year ago; a skoshi pricey, but superb.

I like the rituals involved in brewing hot tea; but mostly it's just a bag dipped in some nucked H2O. That bag would be Twinnings Earl Grey (if on sale) and the standard brands of Green bagged teas, which are quite nice, but are probably just some high-elevation S.W. Asia warehouse floor-sweepings. That's OK. Still quite pleasent. I've read so much good stuff about the benefits of Green tea, that I'll take my anti-oxidant chances and swill at will! (at)

Posted by Asymmetrical Triangulation 2006-10-06 21:20|| 2006-10-06 21:20|| Front Page Top

#17 There are some lovely decaffeinated teas out there, for those of us who're sensitive to caffeine. Twinings does a nice decaf Earl Grey, and Celestial Seasonings has decaffeinated green tea, although lotp's excerpt says that green tea doesn't make the cut for de-stressing. ;-)

Poor Barbara. You'll just have to figure out another way to relax, I guess. Perhaps those lovely handicrafts you do. I definitely agree with you about the efficacy of diet Coke, though, taken medicinally of course.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-06 22:24|| 2006-10-06 22:24|| Front Page Top

#18 I've survived all these years, tw. Tho it has caused questions since I'm Southern (by the grace of God ;-p).

You'd be surprised (or maybe not) by the relaxation factor of a cat's purr. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-06 22:52|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-10-06 22:52|| Front Page Top

#19 Two words:

Barefoot Coffee. Look it up on Google. The absolute finest.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-06 23:58|| 2006-10-06 23:58|| Front Page Top

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