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Anyone reading this and going "3 cups of coffee per day" ... how is that a lot?

by chvid 10y ago

cannonpr 10y ago
Leaving asides the heavy variability in metabolism rates of caffeine... yea I've been up to 18, at which point my most major water intake really was coffee... Not saying mine was healthy, more saying studies show variability in how much coffee is healthy per person.
beobab 10y ago
I was drinking 10 a day when someone offered me "Java" coffee. Oh my days. Pale, shaky, heart palpitations. I couldn't touch coffee for almost a year after that mug. Apparently, you're supposed to drink it in teensy cups. Who knew.
- huxley 10y ago
  Perhaps it was a Java espresso? Would explain the teensy cups, Java beans are normally middle of the road when it comes to caffeine content.
Moeg 10y ago
Finland average coffee consumption is almost 3 cups a day per person, but that's a bit misleading statistic because it includes children too, who in general don't drink the stuff.
frozenport 10y ago
No. I'm around 0-2 cups a day and am starting to worry about addiction. I was able to get through days with no coffee intake but now I'm sleepy without it. I was a nice boost but now my baseline has shifted.
unwind 10y ago
Yes, but I'm Swedish. The average here seems to be around 3 cups per day (or ~9 kg roasted coffee beans per person and year, haven't computed the cup size that renders).
Symmetry 10y ago
As far as I'm aware the best meta-analysis shows that life expectancy peaks somewhere between 2 to 4 cups per day. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/coffee-consumption-and-total-mortality-a-metaanalysis-of-twenty-prospective-cohort-studies/179C220445D97D63E02A5C9B9FEAFED8 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n... It would be crazy to think that that's strictly causal but I think it does show that people who care about their health can drink 3 cups a day happily.
jackmott 10y ago
Perhaps its the actual measurement cup vs a big mug cup.
isoprophlex 10y ago
I'm at 4-6 a day, which I don't consider to be an outrageous amount, at least I don't think I drink 'a lot of coffee'. But I'm not kidding myself, I'm an addict. Not drinking any in the weekend causes pretty bad headaches. Coffee to me gives the perfect "drug ambience": definitely there but easy to ignore... Pretty complicated stuff.

Anyone reading this and going "3 cups of coffee per day" ... how is that a lot?

by chvid 10y ago

Anyone reading this and going "3 cups of coffee per day" ... how is that a lot?

Leaving asides the heavy variability in metabolism rates of caffeine... yea I've been up to 18, at which point my most major water intake really was coffee... Not saying mine was healthy, more saying studies show variability in how much coffee is healthy per person.

beobab 10y ago

I was drinking 10 a day when someone offered me "Java" coffee. Oh my days. Pale, shaky, heart palpitations. I couldn't touch coffee for almost a year after that mug. Apparently, you're supposed to drink it in teensy cups. Who knew.

huxley 10y ago
Perhaps it was a Java espresso? Would explain the teensy cups, Java beans are normally middle of the road when it comes to caffeine content.

Moeg 10y ago

Finland average coffee consumption is almost 3 cups a day per person, but that's a bit misleading statistic because it includes children too, who in general don't drink the stuff.

frozenport 10y ago

No. I'm around 0-2 cups a day and am starting to worry about addiction. I was able to get through days with no coffee intake but now I'm sleepy without it. I was a nice boost but now my baseline has shifted.

unwind 10y ago

Yes, but I'm Swedish. The average here seems to be around 3 cups per day (or ~9 kg roasted coffee beans per person and year, haven't computed the cup size that renders).

Symmetry 10y ago

As far as I'm aware the best meta-analysis shows that life expectancy peaks somewhere between 2 to 4 cups per day. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/coffee-consumption-and-total-mortality-a-metaanalysis-of-twenty-prospective-cohort-studies/179C220445D97D63E02A5C9B9FEAFED8 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n... It would be crazy to think that that's strictly causal but I think it does show that people who care about their health can drink 3 cups a day happily.

jackmott 10y ago

Perhaps its the actual measurement cup vs a big mug cup.

isoprophlex 10y ago

I'm at 4-6 a day, which I don't consider to be an outrageous amount, at least I don't think I drink 'a lot of coffee'. But I'm not kidding myself, I'm an addict. Not drinking any in the weekend causes pretty bad headaches. Coffee to me gives the perfect "drug ambience": definitely there but easy to ignore... Pretty complicated stuff.