Well there is a catch 22.................  coffee is not good for you due
to it being made from a bean, and the caffeine,  yet green tea is suppose
to be good for you, yet higher in caffeine.  My Dr told me tea had more
caffeine in it and it also leaches out iron form your diet/blood?? cant
remember which.  I am still drinking my decaff coffee.  I find it hard to
give up.  Baby steps I suppose.  I dropped sugar a year ago.  Now I've
dropped dairy and grains when starting paleo, coffee will be harder for
me. One thing I did try though,  and it has no caffeine,  is making tea
from pine needles.  It is very weak, but tasty.  * learned this trick
form 6 grade camp 28 years ago*  I am going to start adding a bit of pine
needle tea to my coffee and slowly dilute the coffee more and more with
the tea.  I stay away from caffeine all together. Cant stand the jitters
it gives me.

Trish

trish

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:59:22 -0400 Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:11:37 -0500, Nelson Bryson
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >I've just finished reading Ray's latest edition of Neanderthin,
> which
> >mentions the use of green tea as acceptable for its healthful
> benefits,
> >despite its low level of caffeine.
> >
>
> Green tea has *more* caffeine than coffe has.
> 1 cup of coffee has about 80mg,
> 1 cup of black tea        40mg,
> green tea has more than coffee.
> (Toxic are doses from 1 g on, deadly is a 11g coffeine dose).
>
> 4 cups of coffee have the day's amount of niacin, a B vitamin.
> If you try to abolish coffee I suggest not only to supplement
> and/or reduce caffeine, but also to make shure a very good supply
> of niacin (vitamin B3).
>
> regards
> Amadeus S.