A study by R.J. Reynolds has determined that smoking cigarettes significantly contributes to immortality.
What happened to Juan Valdez?
I personally experience at least three benefits from coffee:
(1) A strong cup of coffee is a great headache remedy.
(2) Coffee’s antioxidants are an immune system booster, helping to avoid and/or neutralize cold viruses, etc.
(3) Helping to stay alert on long drives. Don’t discount this one. How many auto-accident deaths have been avoided because of caffeine consumption? It’s certainly a non-zero number.
Is their cup size 4 oz or 8 oz?
Coffee is my addiction.
Here is a link to the organization that funded the study.
https://www.coffeeandscience.org/
Lots of good information at the link.
Association between coffee intake and skeletal muscle mass among U.S. adults: a population-based study
Frontiers in Nutrition
Conclusions:
In general, consumption of coffee and caffeine is positively associated with skeletal muscle mass. Therefore, an appropriate increase in coffee and caffeine intake may be advocated in populations at high risk for low skeletal muscle mass.
It IS a magical elixer but I’ve got a question for y’all.
What coffee are you drinking?
Over the past year the brands I usually get for different qualities and flavor profiles have become the same, bitter, foul-smelling, burnt Arabica.
And, I do use a percolater.
Granted, these are not top shelf but they’ve been reliable.
Anyone got a suggestion for medium roast perked that isn’t all burnt acid?
Two observations I have made with coffee.
1. When I drink too much dark roast coffee, especially Starbucks, it enlarges my prostate. A coffee shop opened adjoining a store I owned, and I had a bottomless cup. It took about a week of drinking dark roast until the symptoms appeared.
I love the taste of dark roast and have repeated this experiment many times with the same result.
2. Sometimes there are additives in coffee that they do not disclose. Several years ago I purchased “White House Coffee.” Every time I drank it, I would get an extreme headache. I real bad thumping pain within seconds of consumption.
I called the manufacturer and they stonewalled me, saying the process they used was secret.
I drink all kinds of coffee from all over the world. Vietnamese, Turkish, Colombian, Hawaiian,...
Usually I grind the beans and make a single serving in a press. The water temp at the beginning of the extraction is between 210 and 212 degrees. And, I use spring water to avoid the chlorine.
For years I used municipal water that had chloramines in it. I became concerned as unlike chlorine, chloramines are not filtered, or boiled out. They pass into your body with the coffee. There are several studies that link them to cancer.
It’s something that people enjoy so it MUST be harmful.
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More powerful antioxidant Americans regularly consume.
K cups and instant do not have nearly the advantage bTW.
Nicotine, safely delivered, shows much promise, too.
If coffee is the fountain of youth I’d be in kindergarten.
Home roasted Sumatra / Kenyan / Guatemala blend to Vienna Roast every morning in a French Press.
Three eggs in butter topped with Harissa in a cast iron pan covered to “over easy” with light salt.
Breakfast, every day. Yum!
“The research was funded by coffee industry companies illycaffè, JDE Peet’s, Lavazza, Nestlé, Paulig, and Tchibo”
Gawd, Lavazza sucks! I once bought a container off the shelf, and having got it home found it to be undrinkably OLD. I contacted the company, whose answer was basically, “tough s#*+, buddy.”
Awful.
“moderate coffee consumption (three cups per day)”
Three cups a day would have me wired up like a high-tension power line. Hardly moderate. One cup is enough for me.
The research was funded by coffee industry companies illycaffè, JDE Peet’s, Lavazza, Nestlé, Paulig, and Tchibo through their collective non-profit, the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC).
Wherever there is coffee, life is possible.
Wherever there is chocolate, it’s worth living...
Great news for this coffee drinker!