Posted on 07/07/2008 10:08:20 PM PDT by Oyarsa
Four cups of coffee a day seriously damage a woman’s chances of having a baby, research suggests.
The effect is almost as bad as the problems in pregnancy caused by alcohol, smoking or being overweight, a fertility conference heard.
Women drinking that much caffeine were 26 per cent less likely to have a baby — adding to evidence that it can harm fertility and the health of an unborn baby.
Earlier this year, it was claimed that just two cups of coffee a day could double the risk of miscarriage. Coffee has also been found to increase the risk of stillbirth and is linked to birth defects.
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After four cups of coffee, she’s likely in the loo...
Heck...after 4 cups of coffee, she wouldn’t be able to lie still enough for the requisite 30 seconds....
Ping
Society advances (medically) by the use of DOUBLE-BLIND studies. This is a LONGITUDINAL study, which is of questionable value.
In a double-blind study the researchers change ONE VARIABLE (without the testers and the testees knowing) and then check how many good results vs. bad results appear.
In a longitudinal study, someone studies history. This often results in a confusion of causes. People who take vitamins probably also drink tea over coffee, exercise instead of watch TV while drinking beer, and other traits which might be the one that causes the good result.
Only look at at DOUBLE-BLIND studies that have been repeated by multiple testers. One study alone doesn’t count.
Also, watch out for longitudinal studies sponsored by indsutry groups. For example, a study that shows daily oatmeal breakfasts drops cholesterol would be suspect if done by the Oatmeal Council (if one exists). Likewise blueberry studies by the Blueberry Council, or beer studies by the Budweiser, etc.
Four cups reduces the chance of pregnancy by 25%.
Then 16 cups a day will make her...impregnable.
No wonder El Exigente was always smiling!
LMAO
Perhaps it’s the coffee nowadays. I’m 59 and while I can’t attest to how many cups my mom drank before me, she went on to give birth to 6 of us brats. Maybe I’m special. ;>)
Nonsense. I drank coffee and still had five children!
“How four cups of coffee a day reduces a woman’s chance of having a baby by 25%”
It’s her breath.
Excellent points, Hop A Long Cassidy.
BTW, I do not always agree with articles I post, but I provide them that those who know more on a given topic than I (read: the vast majority of FreeRepublic) can winnow out the bad from the good.
Now those are some pretty high demands for some of us here! ; )
The comments are pretty funny. "It's been two whole weeks since they printed something bad about coffee..."
And the results of testing after 4 beers is...
I don't buy it.
My mom gave birth to five of us. She passed away last year. No lie - We had a small coffee cup engraved on her headstone. She’d get a kick out of that one! She loved her coffee!
Ijits....
Well, I come from a bigtime coffee-drinking family, and fertility was never an issue for the women.
In fact, the only infertile woman in the family drank tea-not coffee.
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