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Post by Clipper on Oct 9, 2015 8:17:22 GMT -5
www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/10-ways-coffee-can-save-your-life/ss-AAfg1z9?ocid=spartandhp#image=12Contrary to many articles that have been published recommending limited consumption of coffee, this article is quite encouraging to those of us that love our cup of joe. I have cut back on my coffee consumption over the last year or so because of the negative press that caffeine has gotten. I have limited my consumption to only a couple of cups in the morning. I used to drink a 10 or 12 cup pot through the morning as I went about my business. I used to take a large insulated travel mug outside with me to my workshop and would return to the kitchen refill it throughout the day. I am one of those strange critters that enjoys a hot cup of coffee even on the hottest of days. I am not a fan of cold or iced coffee. I DO occasionally brew a cup of flavored coffee in the evening and add cream and sweetener. While I am a black coffee drinker as a general rule, the flavored coffee is comforting sweet treat. The ability to enjoy a variety of brews without brewing entire pots is a luxury of using a Keurig. Yes, there are many drawbacks to the single cup brewer, including the cost of the Kcups, but it is a luxury that I enjoy. I don't drink alcoholic beverages, I don't smoke, and I don't drink a lot of soda, so with that in mind I consider a good cup of coffee a genuine pleasure that I can well afford. The benefits touted in the article are quite encouraging considering the fact that most articles about caffeine address the negative affects of drinking coffee. It is nice to know that coffee consumption has positive health benefits and is not necessarily the horrid toxic brew that is going to rot your gut and cause your heart to explode. Of course there is the option to drink decaffeinated coffee if one is worried about blood pressure. Personally I liken drinking decaf coffee to sun bathing in bib overalls and a long sleeve shirt.
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Post by dave on Oct 9, 2015 22:46:42 GMT -5
I drink hot black coffee to relieve Restless Leg Syndrome when I'm between doses of a more standard medicine. The calming effect of black coffee is almost immediate. It's pretty amazing. Effect lasts only an hour, but it's often enough to get me through. Like when I'm riding in a car and the medicine isn't helping, which sometimes happens. I pull into a fast food place, get a black coffee and continue on my trip in comfort.
Coffee is on the list of foods to avoid for RLS sufferers. So why it works for me and many other people I know is beyond me. May be a similar effect as with Ritalin calming some children when theoretically it should do the opposite.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 10, 2015 10:08:35 GMT -5
I drink a medium roast coffee. I was always under the mistaken impression that a dark roast contained more caffeine, and therefore used to purchase a cup of dark roast when I was driving a truck and needed a serious pick-me-up. I recently found out that dark roast actually has LESS caffeine as some of the caffeine is lost during the prolonged roasting process. I may have become somewhat immune to the effects of caffeine over the years. Coffee doesn't really have an overwhelming, eye opening effect on me. A cup of hot black coffee DOES perk me up and refresh me if I am driving and getting tired, but it does not keep me awake and wired like it used to when I was younger. I used to have a cup of coffee in the cup holder, and sipped as a drove, all day and all night. That doesn't work any more. As I age, the coffee stops are close enough together, but the rest room stops are too far apart to allow for too much coffee. ROFL.
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Post by dave on Oct 13, 2015 7:12:46 GMT -5
I seem no longer affected very much by caffeine either. But I have wondered if that is only the effect I remember. It seemed to me after drinking black coffee at night for my legs (see above) before happening on the right medication, after a year the caffeine no longer kept me awake. But recent events have shown me that although I may not remember being awake, I definitely feel less refreshed by my sleep if it followed a cup or two of coffee before getting into bed. So maybe I'm just not conscious of the caffeine keeping me from sleeping well.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 13, 2015 8:27:16 GMT -5
Coffee may have interrupted REM sleep, causing you to toss and turn without realizing it. I don't sleep as well as I used to. I wake up several times during the night and take a few minutes getting back to sleep. I don't awaken refreshed and energetic. I am still somewhat fatigued in the morning and it takes a while for me to really wake up and get with the program. I am drinking a cup of black coffee as we speak. I have gotten into the habit of booting up the computer and checking the news before I get moving and cook breakfast for Kathy and myself. Her terribly painful back confines her to her chair at the table for the first half hour or so before she is able navigate relatively comfortably.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2015 8:38:43 GMT -5
I have a small cup of expresso in the evening before bed. Well actually a couple hours before bed. Apparently coffee has an 11th way of saving your life. It is said that it can relieve constipation. I am not sure if that is up there with saving a person's life but the end result feels so good. Interestingly the caffeine in expresso doesn't bother me. By that I mean jittery and nervous or wired sensation's. However if I drink regular coffee in the morning I get that on- edge and jittery feeling. Odd isn't it! So I always drink decaf in the morning. I tried that 1/2 decaf but that also stimulated me in the morning. I don't like being stimulated. I like mellow much better. Dave I was thinking that if you brewed an extra strong cup of black coffee and instead of drinking it try rubbing it on you legs during an RLS attack. Gee that or drinking the coffee could be a 12th way that coffee can save our lives.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 13, 2015 11:24:50 GMT -5
I suppose rubbing the coffee on your legs is not as far fetched as it may seem. Just be glad that rubbing your legs with honey is not the recommendation. That would make for some pretty sticky bed linen.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 13, 2015 16:52:24 GMT -5
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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 14, 2015 5:16:35 GMT -5
I bring Barb a cup of cup of coffee and put it on her bedside stand before she wakes up each morning. I've been doing it since 1973. So far it's kept her from killing me in my sleep.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 14, 2015 8:05:40 GMT -5
A man after my own heart Clarence. I don't place it on the nightstand but when I hear her stirring about I make her coffee, pour her juice and put them on the table. I then cook breakfast while she drinks her coffee and watches the Today Show. Cooking breakfast is but a small way spoil her a little bit and show my appreciation for the things she does for ME as the day goes on. After all, I have been up for an hour or so and have had MY time to drink my coffee and peruse the news outlets on-line. Everyone deserves that quiet transition from a night's sleep to starting their day. The early morning peace and quiet as well as a good cup of coffee are a couple of my favorite parts of the day.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2015 9:11:03 GMT -5
Clipper said, Everyone deserves that quiet transition from a night's sleep to starting their day. The early morning peace and quiet as well as a good cup of coffee are a couple of my favorite parts of the day.
How so very true. It is difficult where I live though. CABVI, the blind sheltered workplace, makes a lot of noise in the morning. Especially at 7AM. A very noisy organization what with early morning trucks arriving and the yelling that goes on in their garage. I have called them several times complaining that they are way to loud in the morning so can't someone close the garage door. But nothing is done. I'll find a way to get even though, hahaha.
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Post by kit on Oct 14, 2015 9:14:46 GMT -5
I'm enjoying reading various people's reasons for drinking coffee and to be honest I'm just as guilty as the next person. I have 32 oz of fresh 'high test' coffee every morning and realize that for me and many others, coffee (like alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gambling, wealth accumulation, political power, etc.) is an addiction rather than just a habit. Give up one addiction and the ingestion of caffeine is simply a substitute for it... e.g. a different addiction. It's pretty much a second cousin of OCD.
I suppose that if caffeine wasn't available, many of us would resort to nail-biting, junk-picking, nose-picking, fanny-picking, attending all known garage sales, or some other form of personal gratification and then attempt to justify it in a more palatable way to make us and others accept it as 'normal'. It's pretty much human nature when addiction is involved. Please understand that I'm not condoning any form of addiction... just seeing it for what it is. I'm afflicted just like many others. When we're 'hooked,' we're hooked - on one thing or another.
So... are you ready for a refill? Cream and sugar?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2015 15:25:11 GMT -5
Kit I noticed that when I was attending AA meeting's. Those addicted to alcohol were drinking copious amount of coffee. It struck me as odd. The same was true while I was living at Rescue Mission's Parker House in their Alcohol recovery program. And the same was true when I attended programs at CAR. No sugar just 1/2 and 1/2 for me.
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Post by dave on Oct 16, 2015 7:46:32 GMT -5
That's one of those articles, where before I invest the time in reading it, I ask myself, "Do I know anyone like that or have I ever heard of anyone like that from my home town?" |
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Post by Clipper on Oct 16, 2015 8:43:30 GMT -5
It is probably one of those things that received a couple million federal dollars to perform a long and tedious, but well funded study and release a two or three hundred page report. I would suppose that if a person is found popping fresh radishes and washing them down with hot black coffee they should immediately be confined to a mental institution before they harm someone. I guess I would be classified as very dangerous. I not only drink my coffee black, but also love a good relish tray that includes celery sticks, radishes, dill pickles spears and assorted olives. One never knows when that one bright red, extra bitter radish will push me over the edge.
You are correct Dave. It IS one of those articles you describe. I find articles like that to be of limited interest only because they are so asinine that they pique my curiosity and suck me in.
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