Posted on 12/28/2020 10:46:04 AM PST by mylife
t's one of the most elegant and environmentally responsible ways to prepare your morning cup of coffee, but if you're regularly using a French press, you could be doing serious damage to your body in the long run, according to a study published in The European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
"Unfiltered coffee contains substances which increase blood cholesterol," explains study author Dag Thelle, a senior professor in the public health and community medicine department of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. "Using a filter removes these and makes heart attacks and premature death less likely."
(Excerpt) Read more at eatthis.com ...
Yes, it’s much better to run your coffee through a paper filter...
List of Chemicals used in Papermaking
Optical brightening agent – Paper that is derived from both natural or synthetic fiber pulp is not completely naturally white, so manufacturers often add agents that increase its fluorescence. This is done for majority of paper used today.
Pigment – Coloring of paper is common, and it is done to all papers that have their specific purpose (wrapping paper for example). Most common pigments are violet and blue.
Retention agent – Paper mix is has not only fibers, but also a lot of filler material that sometimes does not want to bind to the fibers. For that purpose, retention agents need to be introduced to the recipe. Most commonly used retention agents are calcium carbonate, polyethyleneimine and polyacrylamide.
Ultramarine Pigment
Caustic soda – Used to increase pH State of the pulping mix. Higher pH mix enables creation of the smoother fibers, which is useful before its cutting to smaller pieces.
Sizing agent – Added to the paper recipe to enabler paper to not to size in the presence of water. Before introduction of these agents into paper production, paper was very sensitive to the water
Wet strength additive – Chemicals such as epichlorohydrin, melamine, urea formaldehyde and polyimines had to be added to the paper to enable it to retain strength when it’s wet.
Dry strength additive – Cationic starch and polyacrylamide (PAM) derivatives are added to give general strength to the paper in non-wet conditions (compression strength, tensile breaking strength, bursting strength, delamination resistance and more).
Mineral Fillers – They enhance internal structure of the paper, most commonly used substances are calcium carbonate and china clay.
Coating binders – Added to provide paper with the surface that will increase water retention, and thus make paper more durable. Most commonly used agents are dextrin, oxidized starch, styrene butadiene latex, and styrene acrylic.
Pulping chemicals – They are used in three kinds of processes for creation of chemical pulp from wood chips (Kraft process, Sulfite process and Soda pulping).
Bleaching chemicals – Sodium dithionite, Ozone, hlorine dioxide and Hydrogen peroxide.
Stopped reading at “science.”
Probably not as dangerous as drinking coffee with a loaded gun pointed at your head.
I have used many steel filters that work fine
Yer talkin Waffle House
Filter? What filter? My Keurig doesn’t support that
I think that is why buttered coffee is so popular. If the oils in coffee are so dangerous then I imagine buttered coffee is considered a death sentence.
Probably where Lori Loflin stopped on the way home after Prison now that she’s all streetwise.
Oh hell, oils? and bacon grease!!
Hey, she be bad.
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Pour some cold water through the spout, and on top of the coffee. It forces the grounds to the bottom...you won’t have to worry about “mud” until near the bottom of the pot.
And yes...”cowboy” or “caboose” coffee is GOOD.
The #1 killer of skinny people is making jokes about fat people 😁
What about the type of coffee? Are darker roasts more lethal? What about heredity? Were some of the test subjects predisposed to heart disease? This is a junk study.
Even a basic Mokapot works well. Two double espressos before 0900 and I’m set for the rest of the day...not even a thought of caffeine.
I dislike most coffees as too strong so I use instant for a little coffee-flavored water. I wonder if Folger’s Crystals are pre-filtered?
Like I said--A more dangerous way to drink coffee would be....
Ping
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