I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age

The slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle.

I don't even drink coffee anymore. We studied it a lot and knew that for the health-conscious person, tea was a rapidly growing trend.

Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,/ But, as you by their faces see,/ All silent and all damned!

Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

No one knows if green-tea supplements have the same health benefits as drinking tea itself. Most scientists recommend consuming whole foods over supplements because of the possibility that other components within the foods are causing the positive outcome.