This essay sheds light on the dangers of drinking tea, demystifies why you should never drink, delineates the long term effects of drinking tea on your health, and elucidates why you should only drink distilled water. Moreover, how to optimize your overall health is expounded upon in this essay. Moreover, the myriad of simple to prepare and palatable healthy food recipes for longevity are demystified and the plethora of deadly disease causing foods that you should always desist from ever considering devouring are revealed in this essay. Furthermore, how to substantially mitigate risks for succumbing to contracting lethal chronic diseases by embracing a salubrious, wholesome, heart healthy, brain healthy, kidney healthy, anticancer, antidiabetic, nutrient dense, alkaline, antioxidant rich, anti-inflammatory, raw fruitarian diet is expounded upon in this essay. The grave dangers of drinking tea are often obscenely underestimated and blithely overlooked, especially since tea is often erroneously touted as a healthy beverage even though that could not be further from reality since teas are unhealthy, oxidized, non-alkaline, acidic, caffeinated beverages. Certain types of teas can also be laced with heavy metals, such as lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminum, and arsenic which are eminently deleterious to your overall health. "Aluminum and other heavy metals" which are also found in certain types of teas "have been linked to nerve, brain and kidney damage" Moreover, certain types of teas can also be replete with goitrogens with are detrimental to your thyroid health and can contribute to the development of hypothyroidism. Having hypothyroidism can cause muscle weakness, lethargy, chronic fatigue, a slow heart rate, and other health issues. Furthermore, certain types of teas can also be high in oxalates which can undermine kidney function and contribute to the development of kidney stones. Having kidney stones can induce severe damage kidneys and cause kidney failure. Teas that are high in caffeine for instance are also deleterious to your overall health, especially since they even induce irregular heartbeats, faster heartbeats, dizziness, and other health issues. The consumption of teas that are high in caffeine cannot only undermine cardiovascular system health, but can also adversely impact the body's ability to absorb certain nutrients. "Caffeine can lessen the absorption of some nutrients and causes the urinary excretion of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, and other useful minerals. Furthermore, caffeine increases gastric acid secretion and increases chances for gastro-esophageal reflux disease. Moreover, with people that have fairly common genetic mutation that slows the breakdown of caffeine in the body, two or more cups of coffee a day can increase the risk of a heart disease. Additionally, caffeine has an adverse effect in people with existing Type 2 diabetes" (Coffee Health Risks," n.d.) since it further undermines "the body's ability to metabolize blood sugar. As a mild diuretic" (Coffee Health Risks," n.d.), caffeine can elicit dehydration if profusely consumed (Coffee Health Risks," n.d.). Caffeine is also deemed "a mild addictive stimulant" (Coffee Health Risks," n.d.). Profuse caffeine consumption renders prospective mothers at "increased risks for miscarriages" (Coffee Health Risks," n.d.). The body was not designed to assimilate caffeine and the adverse effects of drinking caffeinated products can be devastating on your overall health. Even though people deem caffeinated products to be addictive, they should still nonetheless be eschewed and never consumed. The consumption of caffeine can eminently undermine your overall health and can elicit adverse effects even when it is consumed in low doses via caffeinated drinks. Caffeine can be found in caffeinated drinks, such as caffeinated teas, caffeinated coffees, caffeinated sodas, and caffeinated energy drinks. Caffeine can also be found in ample unhealthy products.