begin quoting Todd Walton as of Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:00:00AM -0600: > On Jan 5, 2008 12:35 AM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yup. Turns out, if I drink a couple of caffeinated sodas today, tomorrow > > I will be mean. (Some might append an "-er", but don't pay attention to > > them.) Then the headaches will start. > > I always loved caffeine and I seem to hear nothing but good reports > about the health effects of coffee. So I just continued the > 3-cup-a-day habit I developed in the Navy.
I used to really enjoy my caffeinated sodas. :( But I hate the idea of having a chemical addiction more. > But I have started to > notice that there are incidental downsides. The clincher for me was > the G.I. Diet. It's an eating plan modelled similar to the way a > diabetic should eat. The idea is you eat only certain foods, but you > can eat as much as you want. The trick being that all the foods are > "low G.I.", meaning they metabolize slowly, and don't spike your blood > sugar, leaving you craving another blood sugar fix. Caffeinated > coffee, in this scheme, actually makes you hungry and is thus bad. Perhaps that's due to caffeine being a diuretic? How much sugar is in a cup of plain black coffee? > I only have a tiny bit of my-world data so far. I'd like to know if > that's true, but like I said, I'd been weaning myself off of coffee > for a while. (And I don't like soda anyway.) Avoiding soda is good. The easiest* 10 pounds I ever lost was from cutting out soda. I no longer have an absolutely-under-no-circumstances policy for soda, although I try not to keep any in the house, and I try REALLY hard to avoid caffeinated soda. I generally stick to lemonade (including lemonade-ish sodas) or root beer, or water. Moderation, etc. etc. [*] Aside from getting sick. I lose 10 pounds in a week without trying when I get bronchitis. Can't recommend it as a diet plan, though. > > As a kid, I was warned about getting addicted to all those evil drugs; > > nobody ever pointed out that caffeine was an addictive drug as well. > > My adults always told me that coffee would "stunt" my growth. I > believed them, and it served the purpose of making me not drink coffee > until I was fully grown and... in the Navy. I would think it would be REALLY hard to not drink coffee in the Navy. -- Churchill's Navy of sodomy, rum, and the lash Has been replaced by coffee, beer, and ash. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
