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Coffee is addictive, takes time to make and consume, and costs money. Even if you make it cheaply at home, this is still money and time you would not need to sp
by INTPnerd 11y ago
Coffee is addictive, takes time to make and consume, and costs money. Even if you make it cheaply at home, this is still money and time you would not need to spend if you were not addicted to it. The more often you drink it, the more you need to drink it every day in order to feel normal. You get to the point to where you need to make it a part of your morning routine. Our lives are complicated enough without it. What happens when you have one of those mornings where you simply don't have time to make coffee? You have to buy some somewhere, which is even more time consuming and expensive and typically creates temptation to buy a less healthy coffee. Coffee is acidic. It kills the good bacteria in your gut, which goes against the very core of taking care of your health. Because it quickly gives you an energy jolt, it is an addictive drug. Any time you introduce a drug like that into your body, your body adjusts to it. Whatever body function was necessary to achieve the affect the drug does for you starts doing less work, which always has bad side effects because it goes against how your body is designed. Caffeine consumption negatively affects your sleep, which is another key to health. Most people feel that as long as they don't consume it too late in the afternoon, it does not affect their sleep. But what happens when you regularly consume an addictive drug that gives you an energy jolt? Over time you need more and more of it to feel normal. Eventually you will need at least a small amount of it in the afternoon in order to not feel exhausted and be able to continue to be a productive, happy person into the late afternoon and evening. If want to, go ahead and believe these studies conducted by people you don't know, who haven't earned your trust. Believe that they conducted it in an intelligent and controlled way. Believe that they interpreted the results correctly. Believe that it is totally impossible that someone paid someone to get the results they wanted to publish. Or you can become in tune with your own body and reason about experiences you have had and will have.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoFortunately its relatively cheap, universally available, and extremely effective. It could be considered the best, simplest performance drug possible. As for emotional arguments about 'going against your body' that's religion. Your body was designed to resist constant parasitic infestation, never be washed and exercise hard every day, all day. Who wants to live that way? You could consider 3 meals a day as 'going against your body'.
- michaelborromeo 11y agoThe problem is we when live less and less in the way our bodies were designed. For example, we were built to receive all sorts of positive side effects from exercise. If you don't exercise at all you lose those benefits. It's doable -- many people don't exercise -- but it's a loss to be sure. Another example, using your three meals... We were not built to be eating as much as most of us do as consistently as we do. Take one look around you and see how many people are headed in the direction of obesity. When you combine the eating and the exercise you get a deadly combination. And there are other examples of "going against the grain," which when taken individually are not hugely detrimental but when you add them up they are harmful.
- davnicwil 11y agoI enjoy a good cup of coffee. I'm more than willing to spend the money on it. If I couldn't afford it one day, I'd just stop, and not have that enjoyment any more. Yes it's addictive, and that would be hard, but I'd just have to deal with it. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with enjoying something that's at least to some degree addictive (exercise, programming, watching series on netflix) so long as there are other reasons besides the addiction satisfaction that you enjoy it. That is certainly true for coffee.
- Roodgorf 11y ago> go ahead and believe these studies conducted by people you don't know By that logic, the majority of people would hardly be able to believe a single scientific fact. According to my own physical experience and reasoning independent of what I've gathered from others, I have come to the conclusion that the sun revolves around the Earth.
- brianbarker 11y ago"takes time to make and consume" Most gen-y humans I know make the same complaints about cooking at home. We should eat Chipotle every night.