Posted on 09/17/2017 1:08:03 AM PDT by McGruff
Correlations alone are meaningless
Yeah, someone please correct me if I am wrong but I have been under the impression that the risk of death is 100% regardless of what you drink.
I treat myself to an iced coffee (machiotto (sp?) with a shot of caramel. I do this once a week and I LOVE it. On the receipt, I fill out a survey online that gives you a code... so the next time I go.. I get a free donut (which I don’t eat... I get it for my 11 year old). You can always try a small one to see if it is your thing.
Many years ago I read a report of a study which was done by interviewing people who were one hundred years or older. The conclusion was that the great majority of them were HEAVY coffee drinkers as well as MODERATE alcohol drinkers. The lady who taught me to swim lived to be 94.5 years old and I don’t think she ever drank a drop of alcohol even though she often joked about drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. She was definitely a major coffee drinker until quite old when she apparently stopped drinking coffee for some reason and she developed Alzheimer’s. She was amazing, she looked like “Minnie Pearl”, had the same sense of humor as Minnie, played the piano and had boundless energy. She and her husband would work hard all day until after ten or twelve hours he would be too exhausted to move and she would bring him a cup of coffee and keep right on going. I will miss her until I die.
I honestly don’t know of a reason to subscribe to AARP. I did so for a couple of years until I decided there was zero benefit to me and I was supporing an agenda with which I did not agree.
Full disclosure: I have 2-3 cups a day, and it helps me be peppy and optimistic. Without it I feel tired and don't do much except sit around. Butt-draggin' ain't my style, so I consider coffee an essential daily nutrient!
LOL!
On my third steel keep your coffee hot mug, and will have another when this one is done. Straight up Black coffee.
I am on the downward slide to 80 (78 in a short)
I used to ‘believe’ in the old
There are 24 hours in a day and 24 cans in a case of beer.
YOU do the math.
Figuring on a beer a day to keep one alive is a good rule of thumb.
Using the beer a day method, I figure I am good until 2090 and I haven’t had a beer/drink (alcohol) since 1990.
I always did walk around with a coffee and still drink quite a bit every day.
I walked into a country store one day and they had a 50 or so ounce coffee cup.
I filled it up and went by the denizens surrounding the owner/operator/chief bottle washer and loudly proclaimed that I was wondering how to cope since my Dr told me to stick to 3 cups of coffee a day and this new cup solved that problem.
I remember an ‘old’ saying I heard back in the 50s or 60s —
“Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening”
Been hearing PSA announcements recently saying one should put SALT in ones diet and the ‘govt’ was wrong by trying to eliminate it.
Would imagine the ‘author’ of the new study threw in with the idiots that wanted to ban salt in the first place.
Live long enough and everything that was illegal etc will become legal.
Remember when they billed margarine as the ‘new butter’ - it used to come in a sickly white color and eventually they put a capsule in it the squeeze and blend into a more ‘appealing’ color??? (Probably red dye #2...HA HA)
Am waiting for DDT to make a comeback, been banned about long enough and ‘we’ are visited by the trillions of ‘new’ bugs that have survived because it ‘died’.
Everything old is new again.
“Blessed are the sleepy ones, for they shall soon nod off” -Nietzsche
Since AARP screwed its subscribers with going all in with Obama and his healthcare program, I have not paid any attention to ANYTHING that they forward.
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AARP also pushed HILLARYSCARE— HARD....
They used to print about 5 or 6 letters in their monthly newsletter and it usually ran 3-2 AGAINST and they were pushing for it.
I questioned them on how could they possibly ‘push’ something that the ‘majority of THEIR subcribers’ didn’t agree with.
Got the hemming and hawing out of the way and I told them to CANCEL my memberships.
THEY did refund ALL my money...
Then I may live forever. Most mornings, after my 2-3 cups at home, I go to a local coffee house and get a “Bob Special” - a quintuple espresso (cold like they offer in Italy for those who don’t want it hot) and add 2 sugars and a little Half & Half to smooth it out. Makes for a very rich and satisfying booster cup. Fortunately, caffeine doesn’t make me jittery or keep me awake so I can repeat in the afternoon if I get the urge.
About 20 years ago my MD told me to switch to decaf.
I politely told her “Nope”
This happened again and again over the years-——and I gave the same reply.
I am sipping coffee right now and just celebrated my 85th birthday.
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Hope to be doing the same in 20 years - great to hear from a real “old timer”.
If coffee extends my life, then I’ll never die!
Thank God for Cuban coffee
Coffee in the morning with at night. :-)
The caffeine in coffee jerks my heart around. The acid in the coffee cooks my prostate.
So I stay away. A hard habit to break. As hard as quitting alcohol in my lat 30’s.
There’s an old saying, “with age comes wisdom”. You’re a good example. (that was meant as a compliment if it didn’t sound like it)
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