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"  Dude. F. M. L. While we can&amp;#039;t all indulge in the pricey &amp;quot;designer&amp;quot; healthy eating of Gwyneth &amp;quot;This $1,500 Blazer Is PERFECT For Everyday Wear&amp;quot; Paltrow, green tea has been one affordable healthy takeaway for years. If you&amp;#039;re anything like me, you&amp;#039;ve taken solace in the fact that the ONE thing it&amp;#039;s safe to drink in excess (besides water) is green tea. After a week of too much eating, too much partying and an embarassing amount of skipped yoga classes, nothing helps a detox along more than a few cups of the miracle-working stuff. Right? Wrong. Huffington Post reports the strange, scary case of a 47-year-old Michigan woman whose 20-year-long tea drinking addiction led to brittle bones and (guhhh) tooth extraction. It appears that U.S. tea companies brew their products with high amounts of fluoride, which our bodies are programmed to excrete and filter out appropriately. However, this woman was drinking a pitcher of tea a day (that&amp;#039;s 20 milligrams of fluoride), which is more than the human body can handle without the side effect of super-dense, unhealthy bones. Granted, I&amp;#039;m not drinking jugs of tea like this poor toothless lady, but I didn&amp;#039;t realize &amp;#039;everything in moderation&amp;#039; applies to green freaking tea. Tea isn&amp;#039;t the only homeopathic magic remedy that&amp;#039;s not good to overdose on: a metabolic bone disease specialist at Weill Cornell Medical College says that he once had a patient who took far too much fish oil\u2014known for improving mood and stopping alcohol cravings\u2014and began to develop symptoms of hemophilia due to an excess of Vitamin E in the blood. I feel so betrayed! I&amp;#039;ve almost completely quit coffee as a New Year&amp;#039;s Resolution and have no less than four different kinds of green tea in my cabinet. So much for that. Anyone else as freaked out as I am? Is it time to switch to coconut water for good? Maybe even straight from the coconut? Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslaw Image: istockphoto "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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