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At the army, I remember a doctor insisting on a very precise answer to the question if I was drinking alcohol "never" or "rarely". for coffee it's probably ver
by jokoon 2y ago
At the army, I remember a doctor insisting on a very precise answer to the question if I was drinking alcohol "never" or "rarely".
for coffee it's probably very similar
we say "the dose makes the poison" but it doesn't change that regularly drinking a low dose of poison is not good.
- ImHereToVote 2y agoYet coffee consumption is correlated with longer life. Probably the Quercetin and Trigonelline in coffee offsets the supposed damage.
- tssge 2y agoAnd ice cream consumption is correlated with drowning. Many times correlation just doesn't mean that much by itself.
- InvertedRhodium 2y agoThat’s just implies that there is a common causality - in the case of ice cream and drowning, I suspect that is nice weather. It also correlates with serial killers, because turns out no one likes to do their hobby in poor weather.
- tssge 2y agoYes, that was my point exactly. Due to nice weather, ice cream consumption and drowning begin to correlate and it's hard to draw conclusions from this correlation alone. As an example for coffee consumption it could just be that coffee is consumed more in countries with higher living standards and higher living standards lead to longer life. Coffee might not necessarily be healthy by itself, though of course it could very well be.
- iancmceachern 2y agoI suspect it may he a correlation not a causation. People who don't have access to Healthcare don't have the luxury of things like coffee, I bet that shows in the data.
- crazygringo 2y agoWhy do you think it would be similar for coffee? Lots of people have drunk themselves to death. I've never heard of anyone who was otherwise healthy coffee-ing themselves to death through regular consumption. (There are rare conditions that make caffeine fatal, but I'm talking about the general population.)
- cdrini 2y ago> we say "the dose makes the poison" but it doesn't change that regularly drinking a low dose of poison is not good. I'm not sure that's the right conclusion there. Vitamin A is a poison, because it's toxic in high doses. But that doesn't mean you should avoid vitamin A. The expression means that a poison cannot be defined independently of its dose. You need to know the chemical and the amount.
- tpoacher 2y agoWater at high doses is poison. I'm reasonably sure that regular drinking of water at non-toxic doses is good though. So it really does depend.