Break the Soda Habit with Alexander Green Sun Tea

Imagine it's hot outside, ninety-seven degrees in the shade, a clear day with very little wind. Your cloths quickly cling to your flesh as you begin mowing or fertilize the lawn Perhaps its time to fix that leaky roof or labour outside doing another very necessary deed. You heed the need for cool as your sweat glands bead up like leaky plumbing while you face the heat.

While most people are aware of drinking soda under such heat, some will grab that 64 oz Big Gulp and try to extinguish the growing hot flash until they nearly pass out from dehydration. Having witnessed a young man who had to work outside with a stubborn attachment to carbonated sweetness nearly pass out before seeking an alternative, made me aware that there are many people making the wrong beverage choice in the heat.

There are really only two major alternatives, one being good clean, fluoride-free and filtered water. The other option is the worlds greatest Alexander's Green Sun-Tea on ice. The recipe includes options for taste with certain preferences strongly endorsed.

First, Start with a Glass gallon jar, preferably with a spigot at the bottom of it for easy pouring.

Second, Determine which brand of Green Tea you like the best, those with the best taste are usually Japanese or Chinese, Lipton and instant teas really don't stack up. No matter where it comes from the Green Tea originates from the Camellia Sinensis bush.

You may also want to consider what has become a bit of a lost method, loose leaf tea which is usually put into a porous pouch or metal ball which allows water to seep in and out quickly tainting the water. If you are using tea bags, you'll need at least six, perhaps as many as twelve according to taste and how diluted it will become with the ice.

Third, avoid putting in sugar or syrup jar; get a tasty jar of locally grown honey. If you don't like honey, don't worry, you really won't notice anything more than just a subtle sweetness unless of course you are a honey-nut like me who puts more than the recommended ½ cup into the gallon jar. The nice thing about honey, is that it doesn't spoil and offers those males that consume a lot of honey benefits to their prostrates.

Allergies to pollens and mold in the area will be a bit relieved by eating locally grown honey. After all, the bees take pollen from local flowers; if you eat local honey you will get the immune system help from that honey. Naturally, when your two legged honey makes all this for you that is real sweetness. Ah, so many ways to enjoy your honey.
Pucker up now, you really should slice up at least one lemon into your brew, more lemons and slices are always up to your optional.

Now the main ingredients are falling into line, good water, good honey, great green tea and a place in your yard where the sun is unrelenting. Leave it brew for about an hour as you should always have it a little stronger than you need to allow for dilution by ice. Once prepared you will witness it drained quickly by that hard-working, fun loving crowd who needed a rehydrating boost.

The reason for this superior recipe is not just to quench the thirst but to give you a few of the following health benefits, which have been enjoyed by those who have found their way out of the soda trap.

Regarding hydration, Dr. Carrie Ruxton and her colleagues at King College in London actually say tea is healthier than pure water. "Drinking tea is actually better for you than drinking water. Water is essentially replacing fluid. Tea replaces fluids and contains antioxidants so it's got two things going for it," said Ruxton even very heavy doses of caffeine in the tea would still result in a net gain of fluid for the drinking according to Ruxton.

When it comes to antioxidants Green Tea is high on the list, Black Tea a bit lower.
Other reported health benefits includes:
Great against cancers, tumours. In spite of the adoption of heavy smoking in Japan, the heavy drinking of Green Tea is often credited for keeping the incidence of smoking related cancer down over 33% less than those in the United States.
Drinking green tea is also good for your liver, especially if you consume aspirins like some kind of candy. Healthcentral is among a growing number of groups providing studies about aspirin use, they report, "Excessive use of acetaminophen, whether it be a large single dose or long-term overuse, can lead to severe liver damage that may require a liver transplant or cause death. In fact, acetaminophen overdose is now the most common cause of acute liver failure in the United States."

This recipe has many twists, even adding a different flavor with peach tea or perhaps even a few shots of pineapple, orange or whatever is your favorite juice.

According to the ice tea experts the first recorded use of ice in tea was at a September 28, 1890 reunion of a group of former Confederate soldiers who lived in Missouri. The Nevada Noticer reported on the consumption of these civil war veterans. "The food was washed down by 2,200 gallons of coffee and 880 gallons of ICED tea.

Plan your Summer time beverages carefully. The benefits abound with Alexander's Green Sun-Tea, but the one you'll get the quickest when that mercury in the thermometer peaks, is that it's just plain good.