Urrrrrrrrrgh!
Decaf! BAAAAAAD!
Posted on 08/09/2008 9:53:36 PM PDT by neverdem
When Howard D. Schultz in 1985 founded the company that would become the wildly successful Starbucks chain, no financial adviser had to tell him that coffee was America’s leading beverage and caffeine its most widely used drug. The millions of customers who flock to Starbucks to order a double espresso, latte or coffee grande attest daily to his assessment of American passions.
Although the company might have overestimated consumer willingness to spend up to $4 for a cup of coffee — it recently announced that it would close hundreds of underperforming stores — scores of imitators that now sell coffee, tea and other products laced with caffeine reflect a society determined to run hard on as little sleep as possible.
But as with any product used to excess, consumers often wonder about the health consequences. And researchers readily oblige. Hardly a month goes by without a report that hails coffee, tea or caffeine as healthful or damns them as potential killers.
Can all these often contradictory reports be right? Yes. Coffee and tea, after all, are complex mixtures of chemicals, several of which may independently affect health.
Caffeine...
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For the active, caffeine enhances endurance in aerobic activities and performance in anaerobic ones, perhaps because it blunts the perception of pain and aids the ability to burn fat for fuel instead of its carbohydrates.
Recent disease-related findings can only add to coffee’s popularity. A review of 13 studies found that people who drank caffeinated coffee, but not decaf, had a 30 percent lower risk of Parkinson’s disease.
Another review found that compared with noncoffee drinkers, people who drank four to six cups of coffee a day, with or without caffeine, had a 28 percent lower risk of Type 2 diabetes. This benefit probably comes from coffee’s antioxidants and chlorogenic acid.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Caffeine: The Good, the Bad and the Maybe (Center for Science in the Public Interest) PDF link that I haven't checked
Coffee might spell heart trouble for some
Coffee, CYP1A2 Genotype, and Risk of Myocardial Infarction FReebie, I remember reading the abstract.
So am I going to die because I drink decaffeinated coffee?
Urrrrrrrrrgh!
Decaf! BAAAAAAD!
Nothing but nothing better be on the counter in the kitchen in front of the coffee maker, or the microwave in the morning. NOTHING.
That is the law here at the RQSR.
Who cares? Stop drinking coffee altogether. It tastes bad. Same goes for cigarettes.
I consider coffee a miracle drink given to us by God. It tastes good, perks you up, and is good for you. It makes many headaches go away. Plus, it’s not fattening like chocolate. What more could you ask?
Thanks Mom!
And why do we still give a damn what CSPI says? Bunch of food nazis...
“Who cares? Stop drinking coffee altogether. It tastes bad. Same goes for cigarettes”
It’s been known for awhile that smokers don’t get alzheimers and parkinsons. Now they say coffee drinkers are immune to parkinsons too. Excuse me while I get a cup of joe and a smoke
Thanks Mom!
couldn’t have said it better
Just to clarify, I don’t care about fascistic nanny-state health concerns either. Nor would I care about statistics proving a link between the consumption of cigarettes and coffee and an increase in mental acuity and attractivness to the opposite sex. They taste bad.
As a home-roaster, I'd simply state that Coffee is God's way of telling us he loves us and wants us to be awake to appreciate it.
I’m drinking a cup of high-test right now! :)
According to one study or another just about anything can kill you. Imagine if you were to live your life according to all these studies...drinking only distilled water, hiding from the sun; wearing only unbleached and undyed cotton or linen clothes; not consuming any coffee, tea, sugar, salt, trans fats, saturated fats, red meat and fish that may contain mercury; avoiding all second hand smoke, smog, diesel exhausts, and paint fumes; and living in a house without carpet, a basement where radon may lurk, non formaldehyde producing insulation and free from all dusts, mold and fungus....etc.
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