Posted on 05/15/2019 5:48:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In fact, drinking six or more cups per day will increase your risk of heart disease by up to 22 percent, the report published May 10 finds. The link between caffeine and heart disease stems from the risks associated with high blood pressure, which can be triggered by excessive caffeine consumption.
“Most people would agree that if you drink a lot of coffee, you might feel jittery, irritable or perhaps even nauseous – that’s because caffeine helps your body work faster and harder, but it is also likely to suggest that you may have reached your limit for the time being," Professor Elina Hyppönen of the Australian Centre for Precision Health said of findings.
Hyppönen called six cups of coffee "the tipping point," leading to adverse health effects, even among people who are carriers of the quicker variation of human caffeine-metabolizing gene. The results of the study were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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Heard a “doctor” (chiropractor, actually) on the radio the other day saying that all cholesterol is good. So there’s no such thing as “bad cholesterol”.
He also said that most people who are tired have lime disease. Those chiropractors sure are a wacky bunch.
That’s good because I’m down to two pots a day.
I like the book that says that Americans get most of their anti oxidants form COFFEE!! I accept that study.
I guess I died a few years ago then. When I was contracting overseas a few years ago, my daily intake of caffeine started off with a MOAC (Mother Of All Coffeess, large coffee with 2 shots of espresso), followed 2-3 pots of coffee the rest of the day. :-)
Coffee is a funny one. You can google its health benefits and literally find an article that posts whatever position you want to take on it regarding health benefits or hazards.
Bingo
Bulletproof coffee is my favorite. Butter, coconut oil, heavy whipping cream, liquid Splenda. All blended.
He: (sips coffee) Must be. I've been drinking it for over fifty years.
I know! That’s why I drink 8 cups a day!
My only gripe about coffee is that it was invented by Muslims. It was probably some kind of fatwa or something. They planned to slowly poison their enemies with it.
Yea, that’s the ticket.
They needed a study to determine that? It was obvious. 6 cups a day is not the tipping point. It varies by individual. If they mean “on average” they know how to speak English - they should have said it.
The opposite studies - you know, the ones that say that coffee is wonderful and that you should drink 5 cups a day - those studies are equally worthless.
Besides, there is no standard definition for “cup” as it is commonly used in ordinary language. Cups vary. The standard cup is 8 fluid ounces, a measure of volume, not weight. Furthermore, the way it is brewed affects the amount of caffeine.
So this is all bull$hit. An excess of anything is harmful. A moderate amount of coffee is harmless.
yada yada yada
TBH I typically only have one large cup of coffee in the morning. On the weekends it can be a little more.
Too much of any one thing is almost always going to be bad.
“Everything in moderation”
Your physiology was designed to adapt to almost any kind of stressors and get better at dealing with it, but chronic over-exposure to any particular thing is going to cause issues.
Whenever I see a study like this, my first question is;”Who paid for it?” It always amazes me what the study’s findings are (eye roll)
I’m doomed...
Excellent!
There are worse sins than coffee.
Six cups a day of ANYTHING isn’t good for you.
Survey is full of crap, I’m and example at 81 YO I grew up on coffee drink at least 4cups a day and still cranking.
But since I was a college kid in the 60s, these so-called experts have gone back and forth on how coffee is bad for you to swinging the pendulum the other direction and claiming it is good for you. Which is it?
If people want to live their lives based on some paid experts opinion, have at it.
I say if you like coffee, enjoy it, experts be damned. It's not your life they are living.
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