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05-15-2014, 05:16 AM
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I think it's understood that too much of anything is bad (I mean drinking too much water will lead to hyponatremia).
Caffeine is a stimulant & stimulants come with effects that need to be acknowledged. But if there was something truly bad to drinking coffee, say the way smoking cigarettes is truly bad, we would have heard about it long before now. Mark Twain said: "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
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05-15-2014, 07:19 AM
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We have heard of it before. There may not be a ton of studies online to point to, but I've had a number of friends who've been told by doctors to cut down or completely quit drinking coffee for a number of reasons. Coffee is big business. Money tends to silence dissenting opinions.
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05-15-2014, 07:57 AM
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If an article is bad for a segment of a population and not the whole population, then the problem resides in the segment and not the article. That's my only point: since coffee is bad for some but not all, coffee is not the problem.
Now a universal detriment such as tar in lungs. No matter what your physiology is: cigarettes are guaranteed to impair it. There is no chart which shows the "pro's" of smoking weighed against the "con's". Money was a big factor for cigarette companies but the truth eventually surfaced. Coffee has been around far longer. As I've already said, the first English Coffee shop opened in 1653. So, I maintain we would have heard about it by now if something were truly bad about coffee. [As a side note I mean to say coffee today is basically the same as coffee from hundreds of years ago. Whereas, smoking from centuries past is much different than what it's become over the past, say, hundred years. Didn't want to imply coffee had been around longer than smoking tobacco.]
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I've been taking my book out for coffee for over forty years. Of course back then it was mostly the local drive-in and Denny's as the comfy chair coffee shop hadn't come to town yet. I'd sit for about an hour or an hour and a half and while I did see people read the newspaper fairly often and browse a magazine once in a while rarely did anyone sit with an actual book in their hands, at least while I was there. The first Starbucks in town didn't have cushy chairs but when I walked into a Seattle Starbucks for the first time I was afraid to sit figuring they were off limits like plinking a piano in a public place usually is. I've since adjusted.
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I love the smell of freshly brewed coffee and in Canada we have (besides Starbucks) Tim Hortons and their coffee is to die for. When I gave up smoking 25 years ago, I lost the tolerance for coffee and get a " car sick" feeling when I drink it. Just a tea girl now.
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05-16-2014, 05:47 AM
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I don't consider it a problem, but then I'm not a coffee freak that has to be forever drinking one.
Apparently here in Australia we're considered too snobby about coffee for starbucks, they came and tried to saturate the market with their "coffee" (which IMO was piss poor, though their cold drink creations were sometimes interesting) and their stores, and well, they've all but left now, even acknowledging that they didn't meet our discerning tastes  As for those that go out for coffee and/or sit with their work in coffee shops and cafes, yeah I don't really understand it myself - noise is all that would be, to me. I'd much prefer to grab mine in a takeaway and just walk with it or go sit someplace on my own. I actually prefer coffee at home, be it from a drip pot, or some of the excellent cold drip my friend makes from beans he sources, roasts, and blends himself...having coffee like that, really puts other coffee in perspective, and yes, the markup is astronomical when you buy it out. I don't know if I had much of a point here, but yeah there it is. Hi. Oh, and sometimes I'll shoot an espresso before gym in the belief it'll facilitate cardio. Probably a bad thing.
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Once at Target & dying of thirst, I went to their Starbucks. For the money I shelled out, I expected gourmet but got nothing better than gas station coffee - except I paid about six times as much for the same ounces of coffee. I live in a college town & I have yet to visit a B&N and not see darkly clothed "authors" in the coffee shop talking about their work & never typing it out. Their laptops are always positioned so everyone can see they're working on something but the font is always too small to read what's actually written there.
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