The prophet Joseph Smith said it was and it turns out it is after all:

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/04/02/arkansas-man-kidney-failures-stemmed-from-too-much-iced-tea/?intcmp=latestnews

Moderation in all things..........

Once heard of an Indian who drank so much iced tea that he was found dead in his teepee.

That's an old one!

Overconsumption of water can be deadly too.

Agree, moderation in all things.

Joe didn't say tea was harmful. Joe said hot drinks were.

That can include a litany of beverages, not only tea.

Truth be told, tea is one of the healthiest substances on earth for human consumption.

The more we know about things, the more we find out Joe had it all backwards.

Thank heaven for small favors! ;)

Don't drink a gallon of tea a day. A gallon of milk would make you sick, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't drink it all.

I have 2-3 glasses of tea a day, iced or hot. 8 seems like an lot of tea.

Hmm, the key ingredient in the black tea he'd been drinking heavily for years is oxylate. According to article, that is also found in 'spinach, rhubarb, nuts, wheat bran and chocolate.'

So although rare, is not only black tea where this substance is in our food we ingest.

If it's only in black teas, and not all teas, and is same whether in cold or hot drinks, it wasn't from drinking it hot that caused his kidneys to fail; rather it was he was compulsive about it.

What's not to like about tea? Honestly, nothing.

:)

amyjo Wrote:
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> Hmm, the key ingredient in the black tea he'd been
> drinking heavily for years is oxylate. According
> to article, that is also found in 'spinach,
> rhubarb, nuts, wheat bran and chocolate.'
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Goodness, I must be more circumspect on my spinach consumption! Just finished my second plate of sauteed spinach in two days.

Didn't know could go overboard on spinach lol. But now I do.

H'mmmm. Southern U.S.

That wouldn't be Sweet Tea would it? Maybe sugar was the main culprit?

I have noticed bottled and canned teas often sweetened with high fructise corn syrup, as well as at soda fountains tea on tap between soda. Some reseach indicates high fructose corn syrup is having side effects (besides it tastes good, and is apparently cheaper to grow + refine for the flavor than cane or beet sugar.)

Then there was the runner who died from overconsumption of water.

Moderation--what a concept!

No one should drink a gallon of tea a day. 2-3 glasses is more than enough.