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Everything in moderation, nothing to excess

Those have always been good words to live by, and now there is one more piece of evidence to support that thought.

The Mayo Clinic has just released a report Fluoride-Related Bone Disease Associated With Habitual Tea Consumption

Everything we've been reading lately has indicated tea, especially green tea, has great antioxidant properties, and even though, I have now come to the belief that over indulging in vitamins and supplements, played a contributory role to my contraction of MCL (for which there is increasing evidence), I didn't believe that to be the case with green tea.

Unfortunately I'm not able to access the entire report, so I don't know what the Mayo Clinic considers an excessive amount. At most I drink on average 4 to 5 bags worth of green tea per day, so whether I am prone to bone disease is still in question. (Maybe a doctor, or someone else who has a subscription to the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, can read the entire study, and report back to everyone.)

And the fact drinking tea is a problem because it contains fluoride, raises another question. Don't many/most cities and municipalities add fluoride to the drinking water? Does that mean drinking water to excess can cause bone disease? That would really be frightening! Does it matter how long you let the tea brew? And does the same go for green tea extract?

Up until now, there hasn't been any evidence drinking green tea was harmful, but neither has there been any evidence it is helpful. Of course in moderation it likely isn't harmful, and may actually be helpful.

Still, now I am left with something else to think about.

Oh well, if nothing else, this story reminds me of the immortal words of Gilda Radner's father,
It's always something. If it's not one thing, it's another
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