You need four cups a day for the health benefits? We’ve both quit for the past few months, but when I was drinking it, I could barely choke down two.
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You need four cups a day for the health benefits? We’ve both quit for the past few months, but when I was drinking it, I could barely choke down two.
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One cup of 4x concentrated cold brew might be an option. Or since some of the benefits of coffee are from the caffeine, caffeine pills.
I happen to like coffee. If I didn’t, the health benefits would have to be much clearer than they seem to be to get me to drink it. For the most part, consuming something you can’t stand seems to be a health hazard, not benefit.
Are you a rapid or slow caffeine metabolizer? 23 and Me will tell you. I have the rapid version of the liver enzyme and can drink a pot of coffee per day.
I don’t know. All I know is that caffeine has no discernible effect on me. I can’t tell whether or not I’ve had my coffee, and would often make it, get distracted, and forget to drink it.
Rand, have you tried taking it as a suppository?
Ummmmmm…No.
I’m of the opinion that the health benefits supposedly offered by coffee are not worth drinking 4 cups of it a day, if you don’t like coffee.
On the other hand, if you do like coffee, like I do, your post has just given me the excuse to have an extra cup a day. 🙂
I love coffee, and have since I was a kid. College was when I really got into it, and I drank two to three pots of it a day while in grad school. In retrospect, that is probably what allowed me to overcome my ADHD and dyslexia enough to finish my research project and thesis, and finally graduate.
It carried over into my professional career, though gradually I tapered off to one pot a day, and finally to about half a pot a day. I don’t drink it every day anymore. However, my younger son turned me on to burr grinders not too long ago. I bought one, and the improvement in the flavor of the coffee was nothing short of breathtaking. I make a full pot once in a while, and savor it – though I rarely finish the pot.
What I find remarkable is the anti-scientific attitude toward coffee research. Every study I’ve ever read about has the researchers starting to look for negative health effects of coffee. Not one ever finds any, and most find positive health effects. But they nevertheless warn against drinking “too much” coffee. It’s like the “research” into the health effects of eating eggs. Despite all of the fears of coronary disease due to cholesterol in eggs, no connection has ever been found. The last study I read about on eggs concluded that the frantic fears of the 1979s and 1980s regarding eggs are completely unfounded – but the lead author nevertheless concluded that eating one egg a day will shorten your life! No proof…but forget proof, no evidence was adduced. The entire study flatly contradicted that final statement. But she just couldn’t let that preconceived notion go.
There isn’t any science anymore, just as there isn’t any journalism.
I drink coffee every day because I like it. Based on the scale on my coffeemaker’s carafe, I drink about 6 cups a day. I drink basic coffee, not that fancy stuff (which can have more calories and fat than a Big Mac), just basic coffee. I used to work with a bunch of Navy retirees. They said that the Navy runs n bunker fuel and coffee, and if you can tell the difference, the coffee is too weak.
Huh? How on earth can a coffee have Big Mac level calories?
Nevermind – a search turns up the answer. Starbucks type stuff. (Not what I’d call fancy coffee, or even good coffee). High calories though, wow. I seriously had no idea. Some of them have 500+ calories, and over 70 (!!!) grams of sugar. I don’t think that’s even for a large, either.
The only time I go into a Starbucks is when I’m on the road and can’t find anywhere else that has coffee, so I’ve never really bothered with their menu before (I just get the brew of the day). I tried one of their cappuccinos once, and it was utterly awful.
As for Navy coffee, I heard, long ago (and have no idea if it’s true) that one way they make it is to add a pinch of salt to the grounds. I tried that, and liked it, especially in espresso.