How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

by Michael Greger

How can you tell if you’re dehydrated? Just ask your body. If you chug some water and pee most of it out soon after, this would be your body’s way of saying it was all topped off.

They determined that if you drink three cups and urinate less than one cup within that hour, there’s a good chance you were dehydrated.

Drinking more than six cups of coffee daily was found to increase the risk of death. “Hence,” the researchers concluded, “it may be appropriate to recommend that younger people, in particular, avoid heavy coffee consumption (less than 28 cups per week or less than 4 cups in a typical day).”

Indeed, drinking a dozen highly caffeinated energy drinks within a few hours could cause a lethal caffeine overdose.53 That

shown that drinking about three cups of Japanese Benifuuki green tea per day starting six70 to ten71 weeks before pollen season significantly reduces allergy symptoms.

Alpha, however, is where you want to be—fully alert and focused, yet calm. How do you get there? If you relax in a pleasant, peaceful place, after about ninety minutes, you can start to generate some significant alpha activity (though such practicing meditators as Buddhist monks can achieve

Within minutes of tea consumption, anyone may be able to attain that same relaxed but alert brain-wave pattern.73

If you drink your tea without lemon, green tea appears preferable to white tea. But if you add lemon, white tea jumps ahead.75 The reason is that while there are more phytonutrients in white tea, they may only be released at a certain pH level.76

Cold-steeping is a popular way to prepare tea in Taiwan, especially during the summer months. Cold-steeped tea is not like conventional iced tea, in which you brew your tea hot and then cool it down. Rather, cold-steeping involves tossing the tea in cold water and letting it sit at room temperature or in the fridge for at least two hours.

no longer brew my tea; I just let it sit overnight in the fridge. Cold-steeping saves prep time and energy, and may even be healthier.

For essentially zero calories, you can drink dark-green leafies all day.

The World Health Organization considers up to 1.8 mg of stevia compounds per pound of body weight to be a safe amount.

If we know 90 minutes of exercise a day is better than 60 minutes is better than 30 minutes, why is the recommendation only