Drinking Tea Leads To Stones

Iced tea contains high concentrations of oxalate and tannic
acid, two of the key chemicals that lead to the formation
of brain, breast, liver, gallbladder and kidney stones,
a common disorder of dietary and metabolic acidity that
also acidifies the urinary tract that affects over 50
percent of the population in the United States.

"For many people, iced tea is potentially one of the
worst things you can drink," said Dr. John Milner,
instructor, department of urology, Loyola University
Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill. "For
people who have a tendency to form kidney stones, it's
definitely one of the worst things you can drink."

The most common cause of stones is the failure to drink
enough alkaline fluids. During the summer, people are
generally more dehydrated due to sweating. The
dehydration combined with increase iced acid tea
(including green tea) consumption raises the risk of
brain, breast, liver, gallbladder, and kidney stones,
especially in people who are prone to develop them.

"People are told that in the summertime they should
drink more fluids," said. "A lot of people choose to
drink more iced tea, thinking it's a tastier
alternative. However, in terms of kidney stones,
they're getting it going and coming. They're
actually doing themselves a disservice."

Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH
Miracle Living Center said, "people concerned about
developing brain, breast, liver, gallbladder and
kidney stones should cut back on eating all acidic
foods that also contain high concentrations of
dietary acids such as dairy, chocolate, alcohol,
coffee, tea, animal protein, peanuts, corn, vinegar,
and soy sauce. They should increase chlorophyll rich
foods and drinks, healthy oils, drink 4 to 5 liters of
alkaline water and eat 10 to 12 grams of
unprocessed salt every day. If you want to be
healthy and strong you need to eat like a COW and
exercise like an OX at least one hour every day."