For a while, I was drinking tea in the mornings. I'd say for about 4 or 5 months. I had a lot of energy during my day and I was sleeping better.
But lately, I have been drinking coffee in the mornings and I just feel dead tired by late afternoon and I can't seem to sleep at night.

Does either really affect your sleeping patterns? Any nutritionists out there?

I hate coffee but I drink a shitload of unsweetened tea. It's an acquired taste.

Used to drink coffee every morning but for the last year or so I have been having tea and only coffee once in a blue moon .....

I drink wayyy too much of both

I prefer tea. I like regular and chinese tea, not the shitty herbal stuff.

Milty said:

When I first started working in a coffee shop a few years back, I went from hating coffee to being addicted to it in a matter of weeks. At first it was impossible for me to sleep at night (cause I'd work closing shifts) and I had to have a 20 oz. coffee just to make it through my 8:30 class the next morning

but over time, my body got used to the caffine (and I cut back on it) and it doesn't bother me

Coffee has more caffine than tea, so maybe you should drinnk less, or try half-cafinated

Coffee

I LuuuUUrve tea.

this is my latest toy:


http://www.teavana.com/Fe...r-16oz.axd

i drink two pitchers of cold/room temp green tea a day.

i have about three times a week a few shots of espresso depending on what i feel i need

JerseyKRS said:

Ooooh, me want!

coffee coffee coffee coffee

I googled "which is better tea or coffee"
These sites were on the top....
http://ezinearticles.com/...&id=107983
http://www.vistage.com/fe...r-you.html
These compares green tea to coffee.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA...id=2123324

This one compares green tea, white tea, and coffee.

In all of these, there is meantion of coffee preventing Parkinson's disease, and preventing type two diabetes.

I'm not going to get into tea too much because there are many different types of teas, and they all do something different for the body. For example: Green tea and ginsing tea can both be used for energy, but mint tea and chamomile tea are good for relaxing.

You could make your own tea even. A lot of people make different herbal concoctions that have many health benefits ranging from immunity boost (I like echinacea) to even aphrodesiacs.

I usually begin the day with a cup of echinacea tea. At night, I usually drink chamomile tea (especially during that time of the month. Chamomile tea is good for when you want to chill. It soothes the nerves, and has evidence of also boosting immunity).

My favorite teas are: Oolong, chamomile, apple/chamomile, white tea, jasmine, and echinacea. I go to the Oriental market in town to try different types of teas.

I don't like brown rice and green tea. That's...kinda gross.
Green tea's ok, but I have to drink it weak because it's unpleasantly bitter to me.

I drink coffee seldomly.My family drinks percolated coffee like it's a religion. I don't care too much for it, and usually tone down the bitterness with half a cup of milk and a lot of sugar. Because of the large amt of sugar required to tone down the bitternes, I flat out converted to tea,

sapphiregirl said:

i feel like that bitterness of green tea is a large part of its activity drawing out impurities and killing viruses bacteria etc
it seems like it has a neutralizing effect, like its balances out over acidity.
when i get tired of the taste i may add a little OJ to my glass, but i know that my body likes it even if it doesnt taste the greatest.
but i dont tolerate super sweet sugary drinks anyway, if im forced to drink something like that i'll put water in it or just not drink it.
like those juices, i always water them down.
if i get any flavor in my coffee, i wont let them put all that stuff in my drink. I see them pump about 5 squirts of that shit then it doesnt taste like coffee anymore. one squirt tops, thats it.

Tea.

tea

herbal tea

missmad said:

oh, i thought maybe you liked tea made from ground bones

YUM

http://www.adagio.com/

I like both. Usually with tea I go for Green.

Coffee, I like it black or with skim milk and Splenda.

Hate coffee- can't stand the aftertaste.

I love tea.... had 2 switch 2 decaf, tho, because I started having binding headaches on the weekends.
I'm a big iced tea kick right now.

HI OCTANE whatever... it could be dirt, twigs and gravel for all I care, as long as it get's me going...

don't get me started on lychee bubble tea!

Guess!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

hmm.....now let me see....i really have nooooo ide-er.

Milty said:

I'm super caffeine sensitive, so no matter what it is, I can't have any after 10am if I don't want it to affect my falling asleep at a normal time at night.

Most mornings I drink tea, I have expresso maybe once a week.

i like both depending on what i feel like.

although coffee can sometimes (not always) have a bad effect on me, drained and irritable hours later.

Gotta have coffee every morning.I can even drink it at nite and still go right 2 sleep.

coffee all the way man! i've got to have it everyday, all day, i'm addicted!