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Thoughts
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Written by Theresa
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 19:00 |
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We hear all about how good green tea is for you, how anti-oxidant rich and tummy slimming such a sip can be, but that’s not why I drink it. And drink it I do! 4 cups before I leave the house each morn. 2 of them while I check my emails and write my thoughts. It is my constant companion.
Yes, like you, I used to be a coffee freak but pregnancy changed all that. Cutting back was not only for the baby, when my hormones changed so did my reaction to caffeine. No medical explanation why I could no longer metabolize the stuff, it just happened. So sensitive I became that even a cup of decaf after lunch kept me up in my bed at night. So the search for an alternative ensued.I drink loose leaf, organic Jasmine tea. So, the same leaf that is in green tea (which is the same as black only unfermented) with the addition of Jasmine leaves.
So my morning smells like flowers. The same flowers that bloom in my friend Babs’ yard in South Carolina in May when we make a girls weekend there. The same jasmine that perfumed my childhood trips to
Florida each and every late winter/early spring. Its the memories of the smells that comfort me. Its primal, our connection to smells. Inviting within (consuming) that which comforts us in our surroundings is instinctive. That’s the good for you part…not the polyphenols, I’m sure of it.
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