Tea! Feh!

A story about tea, from the Brits of course, extols its health benefits and rehydrative properties, but, so what? All it's supposed benefits come the health catch-all du jour: antioxidants. And it rehydrates because, get this, it's made of mostly water! Wow! Just more debunking of caffeine as a diuretic in the small amounts that exist in a cup of coffee or tea. But here's the quote that made me almost spit out my liver cirrhosis preventing, diabetes kicking, rich loam-colored sip of coffee: "'Also, a cup of tea contains fluoride, which is good for the teeth,' she [Dr. Carrie Ruxton] added." Brits need to drink more tea because it has fluoride? We already know that the British water system does not add fluoride like we do here in America. Some say it's a stereotype, but others say it's a generalization that the Brits have bad teeth. I'm just glad I do my coffee swilling here in America, well, at least California.