“Are you freaking kidding me? Coffee’s been consumed for centuries. Obesity on the scale that we see it now is a relatively contemporary development and is most likely due to the excessive amounts of sugar in our foods.”
Agree!! Also makes me wonder in whether this study included various types of high calorie coffee drinks (e.g. with cream, sugar, other flavorings, latte, etc).
I think obesity is more of a matter regarding entirely too much free time to eat mostly processed foods and quickie pasta dishes...
There was a time when we had to work pretty hard just to keep a roof over our heads and forage or grow gardens for winter food. Hopefully selling the excess for money to buy farm equipment and pay mortgages..Or is in the city, you worked your butt off 12 hours a day with no time for frivolities.
Today we spend all of that extra time sitting, eating, and drinking.....
So really, that’s the problem....and to deal with it is fairly easy or should be. But for most it is not. So they seek answers from people who don’t really understand the questions..
That’s my two cents...
This is a GREAT point, puzz. I personally drink my coffee black. I have no taste for coffee with cream or sugar or any other flavorings. It's intended to wake me up and get my day going, and for that I need something piping hot and bitter.
I admit I've dabbled in Gevalia coffees with flavorings, but I prefer the old standby of Dunkin Donuts whole bean coffee ground up just before it's brewed. Makes for a great cup and compliments a cigar perfectly.
As people are loading up their drinks with more crap (Hell, they can't even drink WATER without this Mio stuff), they are diluting the efficacy of the core drink. Plain water, plain milk, black coffee, plain tea: these are all exceptionally good liquids to consume on their own, each with some sort of biological benefit. If you add sucralose (Mio) to water, chocolate syrup to milk, creamer to coffee, or sugar to tea, you are fundamentally modifying the drink itself.