good news for all you coffee heathens out there...

[quarterstaff]

apparently drinking about 3 or 4 cups of coffee a day can reduce the likelyhood of you developing late onset diabetes mellitis by nearly 30%!

well... tea still has anti-cancer effects due to its anti-oxidant content, so its still better, but... well done coffee!

[Prophet Tenebrae]

That's actually really good, as all the coffee I drink will probably cancel out all the sugary food that will give me diabetes.

[benedict]

i don't care

[Cosmo's Moon]

That upsets me. I drink coffee mainly in the hope that it is doing me damage.

[benedict]

'sugary food that will give me diabetes'

surgary food will only give you diabetes if you eat so much that you end up rather obese. i don't think there's any link between eating sugary foods & getting diabetes except in the above case.

[quarterstaff]

diabetes mellitis, is linked to diet, but also has important genetic links....


two identical twins - if one has early onset diabetes, then the other has 30% ish of having it;


if one has late onset, the other has 100% of getting it....

so as to late onset diabetes, dietary sugar is not the only factor to be aware of....


the study i mentioned above was done in sweden, so it may not hold for different ethnic groups.

[tintin]

Did you know that after drinking a cup of coffee, your arteries apparently remain hardened for up to 8 hours afterwards - which is the time it takes for the caffeine to leave your body?

[exnihilo]

Tintin, you are beginning to depress me.

[Non-medic]

[s]tintin wrote on 15:55, 10th Mar 2004:
Did you know that after drinking a cup of coffee, your arteries apparently remain hardened for up to 8 hours afterwards - which is the time it takes for the caffeine to leave your body?



What do you mean "hardened"? What does that mean?

[tintin]

I aim to please!

[iohannes]

Coffee also increases a man's fertility - the strength and endurance of sperm is far higher in moderate to heavy coffee drinkers than in those who abstain - but decreases a woman's fertility.

See number 3: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmont ... 24,00.html

[Chain Mailer]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm Coffee!!!!!!!........*blink blink* Oh wait ment to be concentrating! What was that? Must be tired, need more coffee...Mmmmmmmmmm...coffee!!!!!!

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[Maisha]

Coffee, coffee, coffee,...Cappuchino!!!!
'I like coffee, I like tea, I like the jibbajab and it likes me! Coffee and tea and an apple tree, a cupa, cupa, cupa, cupa, cofffffffeeeeeee'



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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

[felix]

Whats all this coffee madness! Give me a cup of tea any day! maybe a hot chocolate! mmmmmmmm chocolate!

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[Joesta]

[s]iohannes wrote on 19:04, 10th Mar 2004:
Coffee also increases a man's fertility - the strength and endurance of sperm is far higher in moderate to heavy coffee drinkers than in those who abstain - but decreases a woman's fertility.

See number 3: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmont ... 24,00.html


That is music to most male computer scientists ears. On second thoughts, does Irn Bru have the same effect?

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[Chain Mailer]

[s]felix wrote on 20:55, 10th Mar 2004:
Whats all this coffee madness! Give me a cup of tea any day! maybe a hot chocolate! mmmmmmmm chocolate!


Oh u would say that felix!!! Go and drink your millk like a good kitten and leave the addicts to their demise

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[Mr Comedy]

I much prefer tea to coffee, but that is not to say I don't regularly partake of a Costa to ease the passing of two hour lectures.
However, are there any detrimental effects to drinking, say 5-6 pots of tea a day, as is my custom?

[Bonnie]

I've given up coffee and tea and all caffienated drinks for Lent, and i do have to say, I don't mss it that much.
It was hard being over my friends' flats and not having the "essential" cup of tea, but after a few days, I seem to know when my body needs sleep now and when it doesn't rather than having false highs and lows.

[hr]I love cheese.

[tintin]

Sadly, there are side effects of excessive caffeine consumption, being an inability to sleep at night, irritability, jumpiness, etc.

I was reading a biography of Stalin recently, and his first wife, who suffered from anxiety and depression was prescribed by her doctors (who I guess didn't know better at the time) great amounts of caffeine...she eventually comitted suicide after having one too many panic attacks, brought on by her excessive caffeine consumption.

[Chain Mailer]

Wow u read some really cheery stuff doncha

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