Posted on 02/17/2023 3:33:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
After the country’s health officials released new guidance that having over two drinks a week can be a health detriment, now research from the University of Toronto says heavy coffee consumption is cause for concern as well.
“These findings suggest that heavy coffee intake is associated with increases in the risk of kidney dysfunction among slow metabolizers of caffeine, who genetically comprise approximately half of the population,” an excerpt from the data read, adding that illnesses like hypertension could emerge.
“We made a discovery back in 2006 with a case control study, where we showed that coffee increases the risk of a heart attack, but only in those who have a particular version of a gene that makes them effectively slow metabolizers of caffeine,” Ahmed El-Sohemy, a professor of nutritional sciences at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, told the Toronto Star.
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“From my cold dead hands”...
I never liked coffee so never drank it for 60 plus years. I read about this a few years ago and since I have some heart issues decided to take it up. I forced myself to drink it. 1 to 2 cups in the morning and that’s it. I started out with instant since I didn’t have a discerning taste for the various varieties but then I read this only applies to ground coffee so off I go and get a grinder and drip coffee machine. I don’t hate coffee but I can certainly go without it. It’s now routine for me. Still can’t tell much difference from the various varieties of bean etc. so there is that.
CS Lewis wrote about this.
Pot is legal in Canada so they want everyone to use that I guess.
It’s all the banality of wealth.
Every government pronouncement of some harmful substance or product ought to have the required disclaimer,
“Living in Africa is far more dangerous for your health than...”
If this spreads to the US, I’ll give you my coffee when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
How many people were in the 2006 control study that showed coffee detrimental to those with the gene? I doubt it was enough to then assume half the population has that gene.
Try these 2 places, I buy from. You CAN tell the difference in beans and grinds (I always get Turkish or Espresso grinds = most flavor). Not cheap, but worth it, IMO. I buy Kona Hawaiian Volcano Estate and some of the other Arabica bean grinds.
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