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I'd argue that coffee is connected to a rather unhealthy lifestyle of sitting in an office chair the whole day, eating unhealthy fast-/restaurant food instead o

by erikb 12y ago

I'd argue that coffee is connected to a rather unhealthy lifestyle of sitting in an office chair the whole day, eating unhealthy fast-/restaurant food instead of cooking for yourself, working long hours instead of a regular 7 to 5 schedule etc.

mseebach 12y ago
I'd argue that you're both middle-browing the f* out of an article that actually quotes several actual scientific studies.
- erikb 12y ago
  I love the term middle-browing. Both comments weren't about the immediate effects of coffee, though, but about their indirect benefits. At least I didn't want to say anything about the immediate facts at all. The position of the article and its beautiful quotes is kept virginly untouched.
jwcooper 12y ago
Coffee is ingrained into the culture of many professions, far beyond just office jobs. Nursing, landscaping, utility work, construction, you name it...it's a great way to kickstart the body when having to get up at 5am or, stay awake during an overnight shift serving tables at a restaurant.
- mhurron 12y ago
  > Coffee is ingrained into the culture of many professions, far beyond just office jobs. Exactly, so it could be very silly to claim that any benefits to coffee are actually because of it being a part of healthy lifestyles. I too, like the GP, don't exactly equate coffee to healthy lifestyles, because of my interactions with various people where coffee is used to extend the day far past where it is healthy to do so. > it's a great way to kickstart the body when having to get up at 5am or, stay awake during an overnight shift serving tables at a restaurant. These are not healthy activities, but I still think that coffee being a part of so many both healthy and unhealthy lifestyles makes trying to equate health benefits of coffee to being just a because it's part of some healthy lifestyles silly.
matwood 12y ago
There is a lot of writing about how coffee fueled the industrial revolution which happened way before people sat in office chairs all day. > http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2001/coffee/010908.caffeine.html http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2001/coffee/01090...
rubiquity 12y ago
> I'd argue that coffee is connected to a rather unhealthy [...] working long hours instead of a regular 7 to 5 schedule etc. Since when did 7-5 (which is 10 hours) become regular?

by erikb 12y ago

mseebach 12y ago

I'd argue that you're both middle-browing the f* out of an article that actually quotes several actual scientific studies.

erikb 12y ago
I love the term middle-browing. Both comments weren't about the immediate effects of coffee, though, but about their indirect benefits. At least I didn't want to say anything about the immediate facts at all. The position of the article and its beautiful quotes is kept virginly untouched.

jwcooper 12y ago

Coffee is ingrained into the culture of many professions, far beyond just office jobs. Nursing, landscaping, utility work, construction, you name it...it's a great way to kickstart the body when having to get up at 5am or, stay awake during an overnight shift serving tables at a restaurant.

mhurron 12y ago
> Coffee is ingrained into the culture of many professions, far beyond just office jobs. Exactly, so it could be very silly to claim that any benefits to coffee are actually because of it being a part of healthy lifestyles. I too, like the GP, don't exactly equate coffee to healthy lifestyles, because of my interactions with various people where coffee is used to extend the day far past where it is healthy to do so. > it's a great way to kickstart the body when having to get up at 5am or, stay awake during an overnight shift serving tables at a restaurant. These are not healthy activities, but I still think that coffee being a part of so many both healthy and unhealthy lifestyles makes trying to equate health benefits of coffee to being just a because it's part of some healthy lifestyles silly.

matwood 12y ago

There is a lot of writing about how coffee fueled the industrial revolution which happened way before people sat in office chairs all day. > http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2001/coffee/010908.caffeine.html http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2001/coffee/01090...

rubiquity 12y ago

> I'd argue that coffee is connected to a rather unhealthy [...] working long hours instead of a regular 7 to 5 schedule etc. Since when did 7-5 (which is 10 hours) become regular?