Woman drinks tea made from 100 tea bags a day, gets rare bone disease...WHAT

100 teabags! Dang! Kind of an expensive habit too! I can’t imagine what that would taste like! Blech!

GAH! Now I’m slightly panicked… How much tea does it take to kill you from fluoride?

And 100 TEA BAGS? Gosh, that must have been BITTER!!!

I JUST heard about this. Incredible! 100 tea bags in one pitcher sounds revolting.

All things in moderation, folks :)

Yeah, I just panicked when I saw this on Yahoo…but even on my tea-heaviest days, think I top out at around 10 cups.

So weird!!! All I can think is that the pitcher of tea must have also had 2 cups of sugar to make it drinkable.

Don’t panic people. She did this everyday for seventeen years with at least 100 teabags. She’s probably the only person that’ll ever walk this earth that’ll get that disease from tea consumption because that’s extremely abnormal conditions.

I wonder what kind of tea it was?

It’s actually more common than you might think, there’s been multiple reported cases of this, but it’s always in situations where the person is drinking LOTS of low quality tea per day (usually in the realm of 2-3 gallons every day for years). The reason it’s more common in low quality teas is that it accumulates more and more as the leaves grow, so low quality tea made from really old leaves (especially those that naturally fell off the plant before being processed into tea) has a way higher concentration of flouride. Areas with high consumption of low-quality Pu-Erh have especially frequent occurrences of this disease.

Some links:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100714104059.htm
http://www.acneeinstein.com/fluoride-green-tea-concern/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh_tea#Health

Yeah, but it’s with abnormally high consumption. You still can’t panic about it, because of excess of anything is bad for you. Even plain water. You can die of water intoxication.

Consume reasonable amounts and it’s fine. Nothing to point a finger at tea about.