How four cups of coffee a day reduces a woman's chance of having a baby by 25%

DailyMail.co.uk ^ | 7/07/2008 | Fiona Macrae

[Oyarsa]

Please read the source in its entirety before commenting. Thank you.

[goldstategop]

Yeah really. And women have a better chance of becoming pregnant if they eat lots of arugula? Who writes this kind of junk science garbage? I guess drinking lots of caffeinated cola as a man over my lifetime has left me infertile.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Army Air Corps]

After four cups of coffee, she’s likely in the loo...

[rottndog]

Heck...after 4 cups of coffee, she wouldn’t be able to lie still enough for the requisite 30 seconds....

[Army Air Corps]

Ping

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

Society advances (medically) by the use of DOUBLE-BLIND studies. This is a LONGITUDINAL study, which is of questionable value.

In a double-blind study the researchers change ONE VARIABLE (without the testers and the testees knowing) and then check how many good results vs. bad results appear.

In a longitudinal study, someone studies history. This often results in a confusion of causes. People who take vitamins probably also drink tea over coffee, exercise instead of watch TV while drinking beer, and other traits which might be the one that causes the good result.

Only look at at DOUBLE-BLIND studies that have been repeated by multiple testers. One study alone doesn’t count.

Also, watch out for longitudinal studies sponsored by indsutry groups. For example, a study that shows daily oatmeal breakfasts drops cholesterol would be suspect if done by the Oatmeal Council (if one exists). Likewise blueberry studies by the Blueberry Council, or beer studies by the Budweiser, etc.

[exit82]

Four cups reduces the chance of pregnancy by 25%.

Then 16 cups a day will make her...impregnable.

No wonder El Exigente was always smiling!

[Gator113]

LMAO

[Gator113]

Perhaps it’s the coffee nowadays. I’m 59 and while I can’t attest to how many cups my mom drank before me, she went on to give birth to 6 of us brats. Maybe I’m special. ;>)

[Salvation]

Nonsense. I drank coffee and still had five children!

[Spok]

“How four cups of coffee a day reduces a woman’s chance of having a baby by 25%”

It’s her breath.

[Oyarsa]

Excellent points, Hop A Long Cassidy.

BTW, I do not always agree with articles I post, but I provide them that those who know more on a given topic than I (read: the vast majority of FreeRepublic) can winnow out the bad from the good.

[Caipirabob]

Please read the source in its entirety before commenting. Thank you.

Now those are some pretty high demands for some of us here! ; )

The comments are pretty funny. "It's been two whole weeks since they printed something bad about coffee..."

[Quick Shot]

And the results of testing after 4 beers is...

[trisham]

My mother drank coffee nonstop from the time she awoke in the morning until she went to bed at night, and she smoked. She had seven children, and we're all still here.

I don't buy it.

[sneakers]

My mom gave birth to five of us. She passed away last year. No lie - We had a small coffee cup engraved on her headstone. She’d get a kick out of that one! She loved her coffee!

[sportutegrl]

A few years back I remember a study showing that women who drank a lot of tea were more likely to become pregnant. I am a big coffee drinker, a pot a day, and got pregnant right off the bat two times. I have two healthy children, but when I was pregnant, I couldn't stand the smell of coffee, much less drink it.

[Maigrey]

Some of us don't drink leaded coffee, and still can't get pregnant.

Ijits....

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

Well, I come from a bigtime coffee-drinking family, and fertility was never an issue for the women.

In fact, the only infertile woman in the family drank tea-not coffee.

[rottndog]

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