On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 01:48:08PM -0700, Todd Walton wrote:
> On 4/30/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been in and out on this one, having gone cold turkey in the 80s,
> > spent close to 20 years clean, and now recently having slipped in a big
> > way.
>
> But... but... that's not the computer nerd stereotype! I don't know
> what I'd do without coffee, which of course could be a reason I
> *should* do without it.
>
> -todd
Actually, among my many other obsessions/passions, I'm a scientifically
oriented health nut. I qualify myself because of the statements I'm
about to make ... I tread with trepidation into the area of
controversy.
Coffee drinking has been studied extensively from a health POV. People
have especially looked for associations with heart disease because, (1)
coffee makes the heart go faster, and (2) lots of people have heart
disease, and (3) well, dammit, it just makes sense.
I'm unaware of any study that has linked coffee with heart disease ("it
just makes sense" is a dangerous argument in physiology).
In fact, I'm unaware of any study linking coffee with any major disease
except for a remote statistical association with pancreatic cancer, not
one of the most common cancers. I betcha a bunch of donut holes that if
you went back and looked at those numbers again, splitting the decaf out
of the leaded, you'd find that the whole association was in the decaf
side, since much decaf is extracted in benzene which is a known
pancreatic carcinogen.
OTOH, everyone I know who gave up coffee after a long addiction:
1. felt better
2. slept sounder
3. regained flexibility and lost morning body stiffness
Your move ...
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