“Facts that don’t support the conclusion must be discarded.”

Any wonder there are as many factual positions as sponsors?

But stress and anxiety are bad for your health.

I follow the advice of Yogi Berra …
“ When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

Then pour myself a drink … or is that bad for me?

Cliff, we need a laughing emoji I think? Everything is bad until it's good until it's bad until it's good? Coffee bad, tea good? Study funded by the tea corporations? Butter bad, margarine good? Funded by the margarine corporations? Processed, manufactured, lab created food? Just label it light, healthy, low fat, lean? Never mind those chemicals? Always a Doctor to claim how healthy it is. Remember, 9 out of 10 Doctors preferred Camel cigarettes in the 50s? That one I believe EH? 😎

It may be impossible to eliminate chemicals from our diet, but I am trying! I gave up coffee and started to drink decaffeinated coffee, and then learned about the chemicals used to decaffeinate coffee; I immediately stopped drinking decaffeinated coffee! The USA uses food additives that are chemicals. European countries have stricter restrictions on food additives requiring manufacturers to prove that it is safe, whereas the United States allows manufacturers to use additives unless it is proven to be unsafe!

Hans Selye, endocrinologist, and author of The Stress of Life, did scientific studies on how stress causes endocrine changes that are harmful to the human body. I attended stress seminars in the 70’s and 80’s and there seemed to be a national consensus that stress was killing many people.

Any information on decaffeinating processes for tea (black, green, or other)?