Drinking water can help you lose weight, whether you're restricting your calories or not. Consuming 2 cups of water before a meal helped a group of obese adults lose 2 pounds over a 12-week period without making any other changes to their usual intake, according to a 2015 clinical study published in Obesity.
How many tea bags should you use to make a half gallon of iced tea? One gallon is about 128 ounces, so if one tea bag is good for 10 oz  of water, then about 10 teabags is good for a gallon. Start with 10  and adjust accordingly with water.
An explanation was finally found after the patient admitted to drinking 16 eight-ounce glasses of iced tea daily, Syed and Mena-Gutierrez said, adding that black tea, a rich source of oxalate, accounts for 84 percent of tea consumed in the U.S.mail. Doctors believe a man's excessive iced tea drinking -- about a gallon daily -- is what caused his previously unexplained kidney failure last year that's been keeping him on dialysis ever since.