Well, I'll be damned.

[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!

Comments

[sleeplessknight.livejournal.com]

Dude! You're gonna live forever! ^_~

all i can say is

[drunkpunk.livejournal.com]

FU FUCKIN WAH! I guess there is hope! My father is suffering from extreme diabetes right now and has already "lost" some toes. I know it runs in my family, so I think I may just have to invest in starfucks!

[evilyn13.livejournal.com]

That's crazy! If it doesn't kill ya, it just makes yuo stronger... this could be a good excuse for everyone to start drinking more coffee! Now if only I was a man... :P

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

It works for women, too. Just not as well.

The Perils of Cafe

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

Any word about increase in heart attacks?

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.

[keki.livejournal.com]

can't be having you keel over on us or anything. Hook up that IV already!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Today I really need it (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mbarrick/472788.html).

Re: The Perils of Cafe

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

It's all absurd, really. Look at the vehement arguments that spring up in the Smoke Pit whenever diet ends up the subject.

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.

Correction

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

> as a result of a generally where
Should be:
as a result of a lifestyle where

Re: The Perils of Cafe

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

Yes - the diet arguments on the SP are truly classic!

"97% of violent criminals eat bread" statistic

Yes, but are they eatting whole grain or white bleached...?

Re: The Perils of Cafe

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

The violent criminals must be eating white bleached — everyone knows white bread is evil, whereas whole-grain bread eaters are all lazy, pot-smoking, hippie peaceniks. ;-)

Re: The Perils of Cafe

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

A god-fearing Republican would disagree and say violent criminals must be eating whole grain as well because all lazy, pot-smoking, hippie peaceniks themselves are criminally inclined.

Only God's people eat white bread.

Re: The Perils of Cafe

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's the violent part that is key. Even an Imperialist... er... Republican would agree that lazy, pot-smoking, hippie peaceniks aren't violent.

God's people are white bread - further going to show "you are what you eat".

(OK, this is getting silly)

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

Swear to god, man, I was just sitting here debating whether or not to put another pot on. Only two cups to go and I'll be at my quota before dinner!

Re: PS

[edbook.livejournal.com]

damn, and I just quit coffee... sleeping more and stomach feels so much better... maybe I should go back.

Peace and make mine mocha grande single skinny with a shot of fr vanilla