http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/01/us-tea-overdose-kidney-damage-idUSKBN0MS5FT20150401

4/2/2015 9:19:21 PM

i hope The Food Babe jumps on this

4/2/2015 9:33:54 PM

Nowhere in that article does it mention anything about if the tea was sweet or not.

4/2/2015 10:06:57 PM

shit's gross

4/2/2015 10:13:47 PM

Yes 1 case is enough to make a declaration.

4/2/2015 10:41:54 PM

i'd rather drink water than sweet tea

water of course can also kill you, if you drink as much as this fucke and don't replenish your minerals

4/2/2015 11:19:19 PM

Quote :

"It's being called iced-tea nephropathy by the New England Journal of Medicine, which published a letter describing the case."

Published by Yankees. My guess is unsweetened or some level of fruit added

His kidneys were reacting accordingly then.

4/3/2015 2:33:31 AM

Quote :

"Published by Yankees."

Brown water will kill you.

4/3/2015 6:07:41 AM

Five of my coworkers drink copious amounts of Bojangles tea every day, and all five have kidney stones with frequent "attacks." Sweet tea is tasty, but damn.

4/3/2015 7:12:56 AM

Quote :

"the man reported that he was drinking 16 nine-ounce glasses of iced tea each day"

uh wtf

4/3/2015 10:05:14 AM

sweet tea is good

4/3/2015 11:46:48 AM

You can also drink too much water and have complications.

dilutional hyponatremia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

4/3/2015 11:56:03 AM

You are supposed to drink around 2 liters of water a day, and this idiot was drinking 4.2 liters of black tea. Tea is relatively high in oxalic acid, so yeah, if you drink that much per day, or even half of that, you will mess up your kidneys. Certain foods are high in oxalic acid and you definitely don't want to over consume them.

I do wonder though, if it was sweetened or not, because if it was, he must be pre-diabetic or diabetic as well now.

ibtgtfowithdislitersshitdisismurrca

4/4/2015 4:34:38 AM

so will poppy tea. but it's so good.

4/4/2015 10:14:03 AM