Coffee (advice from Dr. Oz)

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Read this article about coffee and caffeine in todays paper, Dr. Oz's advice...little more than I care to drink, my one to two cups in the morning is enough for me. :coffee:

Q: I'm desperate to find an energy drink that's good for me. What's out there?— Sandy H., Ocean Grove, N.J.

A: Black coffee is our favorite energy drink, because caffeine delivers many benefits (alertness is the least of them!). And if you stay with the basics, you'll dodge health problems that come from choosing energy drinks packed with risky additives. So here's how to choose smart drinks to power up your day.

1. Capture caffeine's power. Caffeine boosts energy, plus helps stave off heart disease, Parkinson's, diabetes, dementia and nine types of cancer! And it eases migraine, improves exercise performance, opens airways and steps up concentration, memory and reaction time.

Aim for around 300-600 mg of caffeine a day — stop before you get edgy or can't sleep. At-home brews deliver 100-180 mg in 12 ounces; chain coffee shops may double that dose; and 8 ounces of green or black tea contains 30-80 mg. (Skip caffeine if you have an irregular heartbeat or an enlarged prostate — and none for pregnant women; it will affect the fetus).

2. Brew secrets of success: Drink filtered coffee; a paper filter removes substances that raise LDL cholesterol. DO NOT add milk; it erases some of coffee's benefits. And you know what we say about added sugar — don't do it!

3. Consider caffeinated water. Looking for an alternative to coffee? Bottled waters with caffeine (45-90mg in 12-16 ounces) and NO SUGAR can do the trick.

4. Skip energy drinks with additives, sugar and extra vitamins. If it says lecithin, creatine, taurine, phenylalanine, citicoline, tyrosine or choline on the label, or if it says "amino acids" but doesn't list them individually (or if you simply can't understand what's on the label), say, "No thanks!" Such ingredients can cause inflammation and boost blood sugar. Get vitamins from eating five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables daily. And take a multivitamin — half in the morning and half in the evening. Skip energy drinks with added sugar; they'll pack on pounds and increase risk for dementia, impotence, cancer or a heart attack.
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I never drank coffee every morning until I retired, just on weekends. Now, I really look forward to my morning coffee to help me get going. Probably will never be able to drink it black though, so I guess no health bennies for me. I have to have fat-free half and half and a teaspoon of honey to make it palatable. I have a big mug that is probably equivalent to two cups, so one of those big hummers is just enough to get the blood pumping.

How do you like the trick I taught BuckBuckBuck...figured if he's going to wake me up at o'dark thirty in the morning he may as well make himself useful! Working on teaching him to feed the cats in the morning too!:playful:


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Well done OG! Wish the Plovers were big enough to handle that, they wake everybody up too and they're totally useless, not even edible.


I don't drink much coffee only a couple a week and then it wouldn't pass muster as 'coffee' by you real coffee drinkers. Just that prepacked sachet stuff with hazelnut flavour and some white substance that looks a bit like milk when you add hot water. Doubt it's ever going to have any beneficial health effect at all.

 

BuckBuckBuck is such a sweet boy, so nice of him to serve you. :) I drink my coffee with the poison Coffee Mate, no sugar. Those in my family never used sugar in their coffee, back to the days of the depression.
 
I've been a coffee-fueled maniac for most of my adult life.

My first "dealer" was my grandfather Louigi, who as you might surmise from the name introduced me to Little Italy's (NYC) version of coffee - basically it had the consistency of frozen maple syrup and the kick of a mule on cocaine. Later I adjusted my body to the lesser rush of regular java, until I started working for General Foods in my early twenties.

That's when I gained access to the GOOD stuff! Since we worked on the formulations we got plenty of free coffee, so I can truthfully say that GF turned me into the addict I am today.

My normal intake is as follows: I have a 2-cup travel mug that I use. My coffee maker is a baby model - only makes 4 cups. I go through approx. 6-7 pots a day, so that puts me at 12-14 cups daily.

Like Seabreeze I take it with Cremora and no sugar. Been doing this for about 35 years now and and and and and and and I'm still alive and kicking ...
 
My first "dealer" was my grandfather Louigi, who as you might surmise from the name introduced me to Little Italy's (NYC) version of coffee - basically it had the consistency of frozen maple syrup and the kick of a mule on cocaine.
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He may have been related to our next door neighbour Rino. He served up that same coffee flavored treacle!
He also made his own 'wine'. I know they only had one cat so I can't imagine where the rest of the batch came from. Gawwwwd it was awful stuff.
 
Diwundrin said:
He may have been related to our next door neighbour Rino. He served up that same coffee flavored treacle!
He also made his own 'wine'. I know they only had one cat so I can't imagine where the rest of the batch came from. Gawwwwd it was awful stuff.
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Yeah, the wine - I remember the dandelion wine him and Grandma used to make, but I never got the chance to taste it as they both passed when I was 10. Even in our family that was considered too young an age to start drinking. I also remember seeing bottles of "Guinea Red" laying on their side in the basement, which was quite an experience because the house they lived in was at one point used as a coffin-manufacturing facility and had showcase "niches" carved into the rock walls in the basement.

The wine was stacked in those niches, so I guess it was to die for ...
 
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I drink about 10 cups a day, black...unless I have toast, then I like milk & a bit of honey in the coffee. My dad let us have coffee when we were kids, but not a lot of it.
 
All good thanks for this advice.. I have about 6 cups a day and prob 4 teas .. I have to have coffee as
with my iron problem it stops my body absorbing iron from the meal, so basically have to have 1 after a meal.
and not worry too much about absorbing too much iron.. most people are low in iron but I am high ..too much
to be healthy if its not taken out each 3 months..
 
Rainee said:
All good thanks for this advice.. I have about 6 cups a day and prob 4 teas .. I have to have coffee as
with my iron problem it stops my body absorbing iron from the meal, so basically have to have 1 after a meal.
and not worry too much about absorbing too much iron.. most people are low in iron but I am high ..too much
to be healthy if its not taken out each 3 months..
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Being a blood donor is a useful tool for that reason... The local blood bank has me on a routine schedule.
You help yourself, while helping someone else...
I got a thank you note once for saving a small child's life. That was very inspiring.
 

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