Kidney Stones and Iced Tea

Recently I've read a number of articles that state drinking a lot of iced tea can give you kidney stones - a couple months ago my brother told me that he had kidney stones and the doctor asked him if he drank iced tea - my brother said that he does drink it quite a bit - there is evidence that the chemical oxalate which is in iced tea causes kidney stones to form - recently a guy in Arkansas almost died from kidney failure - he drank a lot of the stuff - for some reason they don't think hot tea has the same effect when you put some milk in the tea - also people usually don't drink the same amount of hot tea at one time -

So what do you drink when you are thirsty - water of course - but then I've never read of any bad effects from having a few beers either - soda and a lot of other soft drinks all have some bad effect on you - so unless you like having kidney stones you better drink iced tea very little - if at all -

I don't drink a whole lot of iced tea and six months ago tossed out the soda with the exception of the stuff in my whiskey.

Water for the most part sometimes with the flavored squirtie crap.
Beer on the weekends.
A coffee and cup of Chaga tea every morning.

I stick to good ol' Canadian on only two occassions--when I'm alone or with somebody.

Well if it isn't beer than I drink that nestle flavoured water

Red wine...only one glass at at time!! Water too...with my whiskey.

How many adult guys drink milk and how much would you drink in say a day ,,,,I drink a ton of chocolate milk way to much but I love it ,,I was reading about milk and humans are the only mammal that drinks milk as a adult .not to sure what to make of that ,should we be drinking milk as much as we do ....what you think ,,,D

I had very high cholesterol - gave up coffee & milk & sugar, drink only herbal tea. Cholesterol is down to normal.

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Originally Posted by dutchhunter

How many adult guys drink milk and how much would you drink in say a day ,,,,I drink a ton of chocolate milk way to much but I love it ,,I was reading about milk and humans are the only mammal that drinks milk as a adult .not to sure what to make of that ,should we be drinking milk as much as we do ....what you think ,,,D

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My older brother drank lots of milk, about 2 liters a day, developed kidney stones , doctor told him it was due to all the milk he drank, the human adult according to his doctor, cannot process the milk and all that calcium, hence the development of his kidney stones [painfull].

last summer I visited a buddy at his cottage, i'll be honest had more then the normal few they must have been the ones that broken the bank because the next day I thought I going to die!! I kid you not I worst pain I ever had in my life. There was a doctor at a neighbor cottage he said it is equal to child birth for a woman. I can say it isn't pleasant for sure.

Milk.... never.
Other than a shot in my coffee.

I've been told to reduce my milk intake because of its sugar content, the butterfat is ok. This means that there is no difference ( for me ) between skim or 10% cream in my coffee. Easiest way to lose weight is reduce sugar....

I am a diabetic, so I am limited as to what I can drink. No pop with sugar, so every night for dinner I have a Nestea Zero. For lunch I have a glass of diet ginger ale. I'm not much of a water drinker, but maybe I should be.

When you think of it, we are the only mammal on the planet that drinks milk way beyond the weening period. Something wrong there.

We're the only mammal that cooks its food, only mammal that makes cheese and butter from milk...and countless other things. Doesn't make any of it wrong. Bit of weird logic you have going there.

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Originally Posted by Pat32rf

I've been told to reduce my milk intake because of its sugar content, the butterfat is ok. This means that there is no difference ( for me ) between skim or 10% cream in my coffee. Easiest way to lose weight is reduce sugar....

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Yes - but if you are reducing sugar - make sure that you're not replacing it with artificial sweeteners like aspartame.

Have had 2 + big glasses of skim milk a day for 48 years , and now that I am OLD I still have great bone density. Fell HARD on the black ice cement in the laneway this winter . Big bruise on my hip but no fracture.

I drink a glass of milk with my lunch 2-3 times a week. Milk in my coffee, 3-4 cups a day. So far, so good.