Lan Barnes wrote:
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
snip...
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.
Futhermore, the change in heart rate observed by gulping down a strong
cup'a joe is roughly the same as that you'd get by lying down for a long
time and leaping to your feet suddenly, or the rush(?) you get when you
lean back in a chair until you almost fall but catch yourself. If that
runs you the risk of heart attack or other similar troubles, I suspect
that you've got heart or circulatory trouble, not a problem with the
overuse of coffee. I'm thinking that unless you have been diagnosed with
a prexisting heart condition or, perhaps, it runs in your family, most
of the admonitions against things like coffee and salt probably don't apply.
Robert Donovan
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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