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Research continues to show health benefits of coffee, tea, and chocolate
- acvny 7y agoThis is fake news and BS. Coffee is very bad for your health and it is also a drug. They keep on advertizing coffee to keep this commodity price high.
- p1necone 7y agoCare to share any sources? Both for coffee being "very bad for your health", and for drugs being inherently bad.
- jsteemann 7y ago"Coffee is very bad" sounds like a very bold claim to me and should be backed by supporting facts. Pretty much every substance will have bad effects on your health when overdosing. But thats not to say that lower doses will produce these negative effects as well. Sola dosis facit venenum.
- 8bitsrule 7y ago"Everything in moderation ... including moderation."
- kerng 7y agoThere might benefits, but there are also drawbacks. Discussions around this always reminds me of this image showing short term impact. http://intentblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/481171_144914898996681_1672731324_n.jpeg http://intentblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/481171_1449... As with most things, overdoing consumption of any substance will have negative implications.
- swtrs 7y agoIve been drinking coffee for so long (since age 12 so, 14 years now) that I wonder if its effected my brain development any, if at all.
- Donald 7y agoHere's a study on pubescent rats in PLOS one. In short, caffeine disrupts sleep which impacts brain development. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0072539 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
- synthc 7y agoFood science is iffy, and different people may react differently to the same food. Personally, I think coffee is not healthy for me. I used to drink 4+ cups a day for the last years, but stopped last year. Since I stopped I feel much less stressed, have less problems getting up in the morning, and my sweat stinks less.
- AznHisoka 7y agoI totally agree. Coffee is also dangerous to anyone with acid reflux. everyone reacts differently and if you don’t feel right consuming something, you shouldn’t consume it, health science rules be damned.
- illnewsthat 7y ago> Studies have shown that the ideal daily dosage of coffee is about six to eight 8oz cups, ideally consumed prior to 2pm so that it doesn't disturb your sleep. I think this claim should have been backed up with a source for the studies that are suggesting people should drink 6-8 cups of coffee each day. Seems crazy to me! I personally don't drink coffee because I've seen lots of people develop dependency/addiction, even though I'm sure it's not too serious.
- masonic 7y agosix to eight 8oz cups 48oz is just 2.4 cups of Starbucks' venti size.
- losteric 7y ago48oz of just coffee, mind you ... no padding with ice, foam, milk, cream, water, sweeteners, etc. That's a lotta Joe.
- rendall 7y agoNot serious at all. Speaking as someone who has drunk coffee every day for decades, the worst that happens when you don't get your coffee fix is a persistent headache - that ends within ten minutes of drinking coffee.
- graeme 7y agoIt gets worse when you fully quit. For me it took two weeks: headaches, muscle fatigue, flu like symptoms, anxiety, lethargy, etc Then it was all gone. Not too serious. But, the headache you're describing is just the start of withdrawing. The literature suggests 4-14 days for withdrawal iirc. Less sure about the lower bound.
- cygaril 7y agoYes, me too - I had two weeks of constant headaches and both physical and mental exhaustion. I still went to work, but I got basically nothing done for the whole fortnight. Still, I'm glad I did it - it was definitely an unhealthy addiction for me. I'm now 15 or so years mostly caffeine-free.
- vneur 7y agoCan this clickbait title be fixed? This is a news article covering a review. The review suggests that the (small) cognitive effects of caffeine and other things present in chocolate have mechanisms that are starting to be understood, in rodents. Because it's a review it provides no new evidence unlike the implication in the title. Instead, it's suggesting possible neural pathways for why the cognitive effects might exist.
- dang 7y agoI've taken a crack at a more accurate and neutral title. If anyone suggests a better one, we can change it again.
- api 7y agoIf the coffee part is true I will soon be able to fold space like the navigators in Dune.
- 0-_-0 7y agoThe navigators in Dune don't fold space, they predict hazards and avoid them through prescience from the Spice. But I get your point.
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- _iyig 7y agoTo be fair, this wasn't explained in detail until the Brian Herbert prequels. The movie and miniseries also left the nature of Guild Navigator travel rather ambiguous.
- 0-_-0 7y agoIt was explained, I'm reading the 3rd book right now! I think it was explained in the 2nd...
- jjtheblunt 7y agotrue!
- fpgaminer 7y agoI've wondered if the stained mouths of the Mentats in Dune was inspired by betel nuts. They're a common chewed stimulant throughout Eastern Asia and have a tendency to stain the mouth red. Not sure what inspired the glowing eyes of spice users though...
- api 7y agoIt is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of coffee that thoughts acquire speed. The teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning.
- dahart 7y agoFrom the brain cancer study: “Findings from this study suggested that higher consumption of coffee may contribute to the lower development of brain cancer in Asian populations. Tea consumption had an inverse association for the risk of brain cancer in American populations, instead of other populations.” That’s a pretty important footnote that might mean the causal factor here in this study is not coffee or tea, but other foods in the diet. It’s certainly a good reason to pause and question whether to dive into an 8 cups/day routine.
- ip26 7y agoCould also be a two-variable effect. For example, American diet or environment contains something hazardous that tea protects from.
- pazimzadeh 7y agoApparently, in some people smoking cigarettes promotes caffeine breakdown. So 6-8 cups of coffee recommended by this article may not be for everyone. https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.55.5.491 https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.55....
- manjana 7y ago> It’s certainly a good reason to pause and question whether to dive into an 8 cups/day routine. You say this, like 8 cups/day is a bad thing? Care to elaborate on that?
- dahart 7y agoSure! More than 400mg is not recommended and may lead to overdose symptoms. (Less for teenagers and pregnant women.) With strong coffee, 8 cups can easily total more than 1000mg of caffeine. Mild over consumption of caffeine causes known problems like dizziness, anxiety, and headaches. More severe overdose is things like irregular heartbeat and vomiting. https://www.healthline.com/health/caffeine-overdose https://www.healthline.com/health/caffeine-overdose The other problem with large coffee intake is that the acidity of coffee long term can be bad for your stomach and lead to or contribute to heartburn and ulcers. https://www.manhattangastroenterology.com/coffee-digestion/ https://www.manhattangastroenterology.com/coffee-digestion/ Those two links are just from super quick first Google result searches, but these downsides of caffeine & coffee are pretty well known. Possibly unrelated tangent, but I read once that 70 cups of coffee is expected to be in the vicinity of a fatal overdose. First Google result, this article even suggests maybe ~25 cups: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exmwka/how-much-caffeine-will-kill-you-127 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exmwka/how-much-caffeine-...
- xellisx 7y agoI have coffee and cocoa every day, and I'm only slightly smarter than a rock.
- ratsmack 7y agoWith the amount of coffee and chocolate I consume, I would have expected my hat size to increase, but that isn't the case.
- chadlavi 7y agoWell, twist my arm then
- lorriman 7y agoLow-level anxiety, procrastination, jittery energy useless for humdrum work, bad overall energy levels if you consume alot of strong coffee, painful wakeup in the morning, adrenalised brain geared to snap decisions rather than measured reasoning. Or Bounce out of bed at 100% energy, fluid easy reasoning, easier learning, relaxed, enjoy slow movies, good overall energy, fine with humdrum activities, far less procrastination. Less impatient with people. The caffeine-energy thing is pretty bogus. The problem for me is that I find it fun. Just realise that giving up caffine means tapering for many people as the migrained a heavy coffee drinker can get form cold-turkey can be the worst, worse than anything I;ve ever had before. Also, even decaf and cocoa have too much caffeine, and with the reduction in tolerance as you come down in dose, so you become more sensitive. You really have to give it up completely, which is a shame. But the upside is massive.
- t0ughcritic 7y agoThe best way to anecdotally see if it works for you would be track consumption using a simple app (https://careclinic.io https://careclinic.io) then measuring productivity with rescuetime and seeing correlations.