Well, I'll be damned.
Jan. 6th, 2004 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarrick
Turns out drinking 6 or more cups of coffee a day (which is about what I drink) reduces the risk of adult-onset diabetes in men by 50%. That's what killed my father. Note that my LJ Profile says "All Dressed in Black and Addicted to Caffeine". Huzzah!
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Date: 2004-01-07 12:11 am (UTC)all i can say is
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Date: 2004-01-07 07:29 am (UTC)The Perils of Cafe
Date: 2004-01-07 09:06 am (UTC)Coffee is a wierd drink: Sometimes it's good for you, sometimes it's not - the dietary braintrust can never seem to decide.
The last I read - which was sometime last year in the Globe & Mail - too much coffee (more than 2 cups a day) shrank your blood vessels and could thus bring on cholesteral problems and ultimatly heart problems (not counting the caffiene making your heart beat more).
But then again, in the same article, it went on saying that people who drank regular, vast ammounts on a daily basis were no worse off in health threats as those that drank the same amount but not every day.
Coffee is much like the common cold - the scientists will probably never know what makes it tick.
Re: The Perils of Cafe
Date: 2004-01-07 12:25 pm (UTC)Like religion no one diet is "the true path" for everyone and the passionate defence of one diet over another is more a matter of faith and belief than fact. Studies that validate these faiths are quoted like gospel and those that are contrary are blasted like blasphemous fictions.
In fact the article explicitly says that they don't understand the correlation. For all they know it may not even be a direct physiological cause and affect relationship. It may be that coffee drinkers don't drink as much pop and the sugar in the pop is a causal agent for type-2 diabetes. Maybe people who drink a lot of coffee as a result of a generally where they eat less and work more and tend not to get fat enough to get type-2 diabetes.
It's a "97% of violent criminals eat bread" statistic.
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Date: 2004-01-07 12:27 pm (UTC)Should be:
as a result of a lifestyle where
Re: The Perils of Cafe
Date: 2004-01-07 12:36 pm (UTC)"97% of violent criminals eat bread" statistic
Yes, but are they eatting whole grain or white bleached...?
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Date: 2004-01-07 12:41 pm (UTC)Re: The Perils of Cafe
Date: 2004-01-07 12:48 pm (UTC)Only God's people eat white bread.
Re: The Perils of Cafe
Date: 2004-01-07 12:58 pm (UTC)God's people are white bread - further going to show "you are what you eat".
(OK, this is getting silly)
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Date: 2004-01-07 03:46 pm (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2004-01-07 09:54 pm (UTC)Peace and make mine mocha grande single skinny with a shot of fr vanilla