coffee that is. I mean if i dont drink my cup in the morning i cant wake up. But ive "heard" that coffee is quite unhealthy for ya so... Maybe i should start depending on tea? Is there anybody else who has had the urge to kick the java addiction?
HUMBUG! Only if you boil it, like the Norwegians. Or maybe it's the Brits Or some country full of stoopid people Over There who boil their coffee. When they pry it from my cold, dead hand!
I'm trying! So what if I just had a cup 2 minutes ago, get off my back. But yeah, I've been drinking way too much caffeine and I think it makes me really anxious, plus it screws up my sleep schedule. I've cut back a lot, drinking lemon tea instead of an entire pot of coffee. The first day without was hell, I got a migraine and felt like death. Now it's all good and this afternoon's was my first cup of joe in like two weeks.
PLEASE tell me you kids aren't on adderal, or ritalin, or some other prescription stimulant the docs have you on for what was called, when I was your age, "being a teenager", and is now considered to be some kind of treatable mental illness. Wouldn't want to be on pharmaceutical speed + caffeine.
Same. No mood stabilizers or amphetamine pills for me. Just sweet nicotine. And I've got my caffeine intake down to under 40mg's a day.
Keep drinking it. It's not that bad for you as long as you don't over do it. I assume one person can drink about half a pot of coffee a day and not have any problems. Of couse it would depend on weight and the size of the coffee pot.
Coffee Cuts Stroke Risk in Women Biggest Benefit Seen in Women Drinking 4 or More Cups of Coffee a Day By Caroline Wilbert WebMD Health News Reviewed by Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC Feb. 16, 2009 -- Coffee addicts: Your habit may actually be good for you. Regular coffee consumption reduces the risk of stroke in women, according to a new study. The study, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, shows that women who drank four or more cups of coffee a day had a 20% reduced risk of stroke compared to women who had less than one cup per month. Drinking two to three cups per day reduced risk by 19%. Drinking a cup five to seven times a week reduced risk by 12%. Researchers analyzed data on 83,076 women who participated in the Nurses' Health Study. Participants began the study in 1980 with no history of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, or cancer. Every two to four years, the women filled out food frequency questionnaires about their diets. During the study, which lasted 24 years, 2,280 strokes were documented. The benefits of coffee are much more significant for nonsmokers. For women who had never smoked or quit the habit, drinking four cups or more of coffee a day was associated with a 43% reduction in stroke risk. For women who smoked, drinking four cups or more was associated with only a 3% reduction in risk. “The potential benefits of coffee cannot counterbalance the detrimental effects smoking has on health,” Esther Lopez-Garcia, lead author of the study and assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, says in a news release. In addition to smoking, having high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol also neutralized the coffee effect. The benefits do not appear to come from caffeine. Participants who drank tea and caffeinated soft drinks did not experience the same reduction in stroke risk. “This finding supports the hypothesis that components in coffee other than caffeine may be responsible for the potential beneficial effect of coffee on stroke risk,” Lopez-Garcia says. “Antioxidants in coffee lower inflammation and improve blood vessel function. “The beneficial effects of coffee can only be applied to healthy people," she says. "Anyone with health problems that can be worsened by coffee ( insomnia, anxiety, hypertension, or heart problems) should talk to their doctor about their specific risk.” And the data suggest that women still need to pay attention to any stroke risk factors they may have. Drinking coffee will not make those risk factors go away.
Eh, I've never been a coffee fan. I drink tea once in a while, but not an overly huge fan of it either.
I will say that In moderation I don't think anything is overly bad for you. I am a cafine addict. If I don't have any I will get the headache from hell. I have stuck it out and it seems to last for three to four days. Nothing short of narcotics seem to touch it but after that all signs seem to go away. YMMV Storm
