Posted on 10/21/2025 8:47:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One thing I am not clear on is whether it is OK to drink coffee before giving blood, so on days when I donate I generally avoid drinking any coffee beforehand...but would like to do so if I was sure that it would not cause any problems (especially for the blood recipients).
Same here except I am 80! I admit my consumption is much lower today than when I was half my age. But I need my 1-2 cps each morning or the day seems to lag.
Gee, maybe the old folks at the farm knew more than I realized when they used to say: “All things in moderation.”
“More important is eliminating added sugars “
^^^THIS. I love sugary stuff but it’s inflammatory as hell. After hundreds of thousands of years as hunter-gatherers eating meats, berries and nuts, our bodies just can’t “mainline” massive quantities of purified glucose/fructose.
As one raised and addicted to sugar for way WAY too long, years and years, and now off it, I’ve more recently found a sweetener that looks quite promising.
Allulose is a natural “rare” sugar, that is 2/3 to 3/4 as sweet as table sugar. It is a powder with texture like table sugar, and can be used like it in making food stuffs.
My favorite so far, Cocoa Butter Bark: tiny amount of carbs: 8 oz of cocoa butter, half-cup unsweetened cocoa, half-cup of allulose, bit o’ vanilla, some pecans. The small amount of carbs is from the pecans. I usually use 40 to 80g of pecans. 3g net carbs, 6g fiber. This is mostly fat, which is great keto, and not for anybody still hanging onto the Big Food lie that Fat will kill us.
Interesting!
“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.”
People who actually studied salt found a classic “U-curve” in which the lowest death rates were at TWICE the level recommended by the ‘experts’ and going twice-again in level had only a minor effect on death rates. So, too much salt is simply one of many medical myths that won’t go away.
For carbs (including sugars), some were marginally healthy for our grandparents, now NONE are healthy thanks to all the modifications, so you’re on the right track there, look at them as a slow-acting poison, because they are.
Woo hoo! I am already at four cups a day. I should live forever.
“ A cup a day seems to work for me.”
I do a cup of regular and a cup of half-caff in the morning and a decaf green tea in the afternoon.
Wink, wink, so am I (and other inquiring minds) to believe that he United States Marine Corps, kept your undivided attention, again WINK, WINK, I find that very suspect, with warm loving R. Lee Ermey types "Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the film Full Metal Jacket (1987.)"
If you replace just one cup of coffee with green tea you can reduce the remaining joy you have in life by up to 48%.
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