Posted on 10/21/2025 8:47:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Personally, I find staying away from salt a straw-man for lower BP and heart health.
More important is eliminating added sugars and keeping daily carb intake low.
I now add salt, plenty of it, and drink caffeinated tea daily, with a resulting average to low BP.
COFFEE GOOD!......this week..............
I am not a coffee drinker, but I do drink iced tea (brewed from black tea) most days. Usually about 16-24 oz, so roughly 100-150 mg in a day.
I have been drinking coffee ever since I was 5 years old.
I am now 70.
It would probably kill me if I stopped now...............
Pretty close to the same here.
Started drinking coffee in elementary school. Especially on cold winter mornings. Back when it was common for us to walk to school.
I find the caffeine from this tea to be very relaxing as opposed to my stimulating caffeine from my morning coffee.
Thanks for posting. A cup a day seems to work for me. Every individual is different. Take note of what you put in your body and understand what seems to help or hurt you.
Health/life BUMP
The only time I didn’t drink coffee was in Marine Corps boot camp.
I had no problem staying awake there...............
I now of lots of little old ladies who died in the 90s drinking tea on a daily basis... So I’ve always assumed the tea is good for you.
Ditto that.
I do Chemex brewing, and drink 4-6 mugs/day.
I thank the Lord for the coffee bean gift to mankind.
Coffee bad.
Coffee good.
Coffee bad.
Coffee good.
Coffee bad.
Coffee good.
Coffee bad.
Coffee good.
Coffee bad.
Coffee good.
Guess the needle stopped on good this week.
I should have another cup to celebrate.
I don’t care if it’s good or bad...if I quit coffee I’d probably die.
Carbs and processed foods are the culprits and if you can resist the temptation you will be better off for it. Just a couple of weeks of discipline from them will be felt, if you can manage it. Carbs in the form of sugars alone are in everything that comes from a box, they are all but unavoidable if you buy anything in a box or wrapper. If you just keep a tally through the day of the % of daily recommended allowance you will notice a positive change. It does not come naturally for me and is not an easy habit to stay with.
I go sparing on salt unless I sweat a lot in the summer and I am losing fluid by the bucket. Somehow the body knows what to do. I make up for salt with pepper though.
My coffee drinking went from probably 20 cups a day in my misspent youth to about 2 medium size mugs over the morning hours now 50 years later. Probably much better and my BP is well managed but not so much my sugar. Carbs are the culprit and they are hard to resist. My cats can’t even resist and will eat dry food even when offered good canned food in the case of a few of them and all of them munch dry food all day.
“a good way to do so is to replace a cup or two of coffee with black or green tea”
Gag me!
...I just made a pot of coffee.....not often, but sometimes a cup of coffee at mid-day helps my get-up-and-go get up and GO!
The keyword is “moderation”.
Bkmk
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