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1st Cup Of Coffee: Hardening Your Arteries

Posted by Hemos on from the caffiene-is-gud! dept.

mikewhittaker writes "A recent article on The Times refer to a report which indicates that the intake of caffeine from a single coffee can have adverse effects on your arteries and heart." Actually, it goes so far to say that the first cup of coffee is the worst. Of course, basically, anything you do is bad for at some level, so I guess it's choosing your poisons.

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  1. Easy fix by geophile · · Score: 5, Funny

    So skip the first cup of coffee and go right to the second.

  2. Glad I switched! by pgpckt · · Score: 5, Funny

    a single coffee can have adverse effects on your arteries and heart.

    Whew. That was close. Glad I switched to espresso!

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    Lawrence Lessig is my personal hero.
  3. coffee quotes by FarHat · · Score: 5, Funny

    * Turkish Proverb: "Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death,
    and sweet as love."
    * Sheikh Abd-al-Kadir (1587): "No one can understand the truth until
    he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness."
    * Sir James MacKintosh (18th century philosopher): "The powers of a
    man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he
    drank."
    * Johann Sebastian Bach (1732, an aria from his 'Kaffee-Kantate'):
    "Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovlier than a thousand kisses,
    sweeter than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee..."
    * David Letterman (Esquire Interview Fall '94): "If it wasn't for
    coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all."
    * Chris Egolf (1993): "This damn pot is too fucking slow!"
    * Wise New York City Homeless Man (1996, to Chris Egolf): "Son, you
    need to get some coffee in you so people know you're alive!"

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    At the intersection of computation and biology.
  4. Play: Caffiene and Quake by leonbrooks · · Score: 5, Funny
    Scene opens with a programmer at his keyboard, with adjacent coffee pot producing delicious, stimulating caffienated mud.

    • Begin: 100 health
    • Drink 1st coffee: 90 health
    • Drink 2nd coffee: 80 health
    • Drink 3rd coffee: 71 health (decimals omitted for simplicity)
    • Drink 4th coffee: 62 health
    • Drink 5th coffee: 53 health
    • Drink 6th coffee: 44 health
    • Drink 7th coffee: 35 health
    • Drink 8th coffee: 26 health
    • Drink 9th coffee: 17 health
    • Drink 10th coffee: 8 health
    • Drink 11th coffee: -1 health, get sideways view of the floor.

    Drink up! Yippeee...! Er...

    • Enter a tall, thin chap in a black cloak and bearing a huge white feather, who sets about banishing you to the IPT.

    Scene closes with programmer's workmates, each with coffee in hand, shaking their heads sadly as paramedics bear away a sheet-covered object on a stretcher.

    My point: less harmful is not the same as harmless.

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  5. misparsing? by merlyn · · Score: 4, Funny
    I had to read

    the intake of caffeine from a single coffee can

    three times before I figured out that it didn't mean "a coffee can", because I was trying to figure out how to drink from multiple cans instead.
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  6. deadly donut by mudflat · · Score: 4, Funny

    'The findings showed that the first cup had the most significant effect because caffeine levels in the blood had dropped during the night.'

    There's a no-brainer. Drink a maintenance dose when you get up to pee in the middle of the night.