I need my morning coffee and between coffee and tea would consume about eight cups a day I figure.
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apparently some positive sides....
Don’t rush off to Starbucks just yet. While these findings are intriguing, they don’t prove cause and effect. The study was small and it wasn’t a randomized controlled trial, the gold standard of scientific evidence.
Even so, there are other data to support coffee’s potential to temper physical pain. Previous research has reported that consuming caffeine prior to exercise can diminish muscle pain during aerobic and strength exercise.
Even if your morning cup of java doesn’t help you cope with pain, it may have other upsides. It can make you feel more alert and help you work out harder at the gym.
When it comes to health, the most promising evidence for coffee drinking relates to type 2 diabetes. Numerous studies suggest that drinking four to six cups of coffee each day lowers the odds of developing the disease.
Coffee drinking has also been linked to protection from gallstones, asthma, stroke, liver cancer, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s.
Some of coffee’s benefits are linked to its antioxidants found in both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee. Coffee’s antioxidants are thought to dampen inflammation in the body, protect the liver from carcinogens and improve how the body uses insulin, the hormone that clears sugar from the bloodstream.
Coffee also contains magnesium, a mineral linked to blood-sugar regulation. Caffeine is also thought to exert certain health benefits.
But coffee isn’t for everyone. If you have heartburn or reflux disease (GERD), your morning brew – regular and decaf – can bring on symptoms.
If you’re pregnant, drinking too much coffee could increase the risk of miscarriage. That’s why Health Canada advises women of childbearing age to consume no more than 300 milligrams of caffeine per day, the amount found in roughly two eight-ounce cups of coffee.
It’s also prudent to limit your caffeine intake if you have low bone density or osteoporosis. Consuming more than 450 milligrams of caffeine a day can rob your bones of calcium if your diet’s lacking the mineral.
It’s also prudent to cut back on caffeine if you have high blood pressure or insomnia.
For the rest of us, drinking coffee in moderation may do more good than harm. For most healthy adults, a daily intake of 400 milligrams of caffeine – about three eight-ounce cups of coffee – is not associated with any adverse effects. (Some people, however, are sensitive to caffeine’s side effects such as irritability, sleep disturbances and headache.)
Keep your coffee simple. Black coffee and coffee with a splash of milk won’t break your diet. But a regular intake of high fat, sugary coffee drinks add more calories than you might think. Perhaps it’s time to downsize that large double-double (230 calories).
That morning cup of coffee can be good for you - The Globe and Mail
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My Borg implants simply refuse to function until that first mug of coffee is half consumed. It begins a chain of events which have proved unsuitable for further assimilation. Coffee, fag, dump.
I do realise that there should be a clear and distinct verb in that last sentence but bear with me. WE ARE BORG after all.
Can't live without it.
these days i keep a cup with me all day.
fred
Don't touch the stuff. Green tea for me!
Never drank it in Thailand. Probably because it was too hot there or it didn't go well with all the Leo. But here on the cool, sober California coast, I do at least three cups in the morn ...
The breakfast of champions has been my mainstay for over 20 years now. Coffee with a cigarette except for those times when I wasn't smoking. I don't eat anything until morning tea around 10am when I also have another coffee. I have a third in the latish evening to keep the brain turning over for those last few hours before sleep.
We could all sit outside on banana lounges discussing the best way to rebuild a 4WD transmission and agree, through shared stories of conquests supporting our assertions, that there is no basis to the proposition that those least assured of their persuasions are the first to condemn others for theirs.
I always thought the breakfast of champions was beer.Originally Posted by Umbuku
Two for the main course and one for desert.
I will drink up to five coffees in the morning. By eleven I switch to tea and ginger. Ten-twelve cups per day on a slow day.
I can't really start the day without coffee and a cig.
Right now I'm looking for one of those Turkish coffee makers.
If that's what they are called ?
The ones where you press/plunge the coffee to the bottom.
Sweet.
Thats horrible. Im guessing you are a fatty Russ? That kind of greed turns my stomache.
This is it... The apocalypse.
Why would you bother?
Surely you have more useful endeavors to pursue.
I don't try to speculate about people's weight based on some comments that have absolutely nothing to do with weight.
In any case....I'm exactly the weight I should be.
Now you can stop wondering
Yeah, you ain't heavy
Naw, I'm your brother.
I think I'm going to outlive everyone on this forum ... with the exception of Enclavean.
Yeah, coffee. I started drinking coffee at 33 and my teeth went from white to British in less than 6 years.
I have just been given a milk frother. It makes enough for two cups and can just heat and aerate the milk.
Works well with my espresso pot.
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