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Coffee is a "Health Drink"
WoodenRobot writes "Not that it would stop an Italian or a techie from drinking the stuff, but Chiara Trombetti, of the Humanitas Gavazzeni institute of Bergamo has reported that coffee, especially espresso, is good for you and provides numerous health benefits. All the more reason to tuck into a cup o' Joe - but no more than 3 or 4 cups a day."
For Good health - there's my first dose - nothing like a rich black brazilian coffee
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It's just as good as getting a hi-colonic (sp?) so keep on drinking those 4 cups a day and keep your colon clean as a whistle!
I'm shooting for 10 cups a day, maybe I can be the first self propelled man into space.
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Daily use prevents caffeine withdraw.
Just had my first double. Thanks, Krups!
The only health benifits I can see at my office would be for my co-workers.
Since it's their health that's in jeopardy if I dont get my coffee.
So you mean all these years when I thought I was being healthy and avoiding it... I've been hurting myself? Next you're going to tell me the large amounts of caffeine I don't ingest daily in the form of other beverages is also bad for me... if you'll excuse me though, it's 9:15 and I need to wait up before I get to work... while here at work.
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Ok - then what about caffiene soap? Will it make my arteries extra squeaky clean?
Ah... I've been waiting for an article just like this to ease that "I should drink less coffee" feeling. Now everytime I have such a foolish thought, I can remind myself that coffee is good for me, and I would be hurting myself if I didn't drink 2.5 gallons a day.
Dr Trombetti is adamant that a cup of milky coffee could make the ideal start for the next generation of coffee lovers - Italy's drowsy school kids - stimulating their brains ahead of a day that often lasts from 0830 until 1600.
When I wash their age, I wash in shcool from sheven pm the night before to nine pm every shingle day! And I tell you what, shonny, I liked it and didn't need no shtinkin' coffee, no siree! And we didn't have no shtinkin' 24-hour time neither!
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"Coffee is a health drink" my ass.
I eat my coffee with a fork.
Coffee (preferably espresso) is vital to my health. Of course, I'm thinking more along the lines of preventing a subdural hematoma caused by my forehead slamming onto my desk. Coffee is a great preventative for that.
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Quick! I haven't had my morning cup of "scientific study that 'proves' what I want to believe". I'm going to be a jittery wreck for the rest of the day if I can't get justification for my ridiculously bad nutritional habits!
Cool. Coffee is now good for you. Beer (and any other form of alcohol) is good for you. Now I just need to find out bacon is healthy too, and maybe I'll be less likely to get a heart attack!
Oh good, I'm in the clear! Wheh!
I usually stop at 3 pots a day myself.
Wait a minute, what's this? CUPS! CUPS!!
Shit! I thought they said POTS!
Damn rtfa stuff again...
No. That's just you getting old.
Seriously...if I make coffee or smell it, I can feel the dogs scratchin' at the door and I gotta let them out quick. It's amazing the power of coffee. Anyone else just SMELL the stuff and feel the need to take the browns to the super bowl?
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>It's really not good journalism to post material like that guys.
good journalism on slashdot? you must be new here
tannin and antioxidants and many health benefits, is it so wrong of me to mix the two and drink my espresso/wine drink approximately every fifteen minutes from the time I wake up to the time I ...try to go to sleep? Why won't my wife/ex-boss/judge understand I'm doing this for my health?!?
I don't want no stinkin' plants living in my body!
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So if you want to have the same results in the US, you can easily drink 3 times the amount mentioned in the Italian report.
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Well, I have red the same thing about smokers due to the effect that nicotine has on the dopamin levels.
;) ) a day. I also smoke about 6 small cigars a day. I'm pretty much Alzheimer free, the only drawback is that I have a higher chance to actually not reach the age when Alzheimer generally appears *sigh*.
Since I'm portuguese I drink about 5/6 coffees ("expressos", the only real coffee
Because you're not a plant?
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Is VERY VERY Healthy for everyONE IN MY OFFICE THAT I GET TO HAVE MY GODDAMN COFFEE, AND DON'T BUG ME TILL (sip) I'm done. Because I'm a much calmer reasonable person after I've had my little cup of happiness.
In an unprecedented move today, an international body of scientists declared in a press conference the findings of their latest array of studies. The scientists surprisingly came to a conclusion that they had finally managed to not find anything that is in any way detrimental to your health and stated that people should just live the way they like and not care about potential consequences to their health.
The results of the study have raised some rare disagreements amongst the community of scientists, but the consensus seems to be that all our health and nutrition related problems are over. The board of directors at the tobacco-giant Philip Morris, as well as CEOs of multinational food and beverage corporations such as Pepsi and McDonalds heralded the results as groundbreaking.
When interviewed after the press conference, one of the scientists involved in the study revealed that he had some misgivings about drawing such near-sighted and overtly optimistic conclusions, but also stressed that the benefits of letting people finally do what the fuck they want and slowly kill themselves in the process were much preferred to the endless bickering and whining about whether something is good for you or not. The scientists concluded his statement by saying that: "Every one of us has to leave this world at some point or other", but that "the fat pig over there munching Cheetos is gonna be one of the first ones to go".
Several other scientists were quoted as not giving a fuck about it either.
Identifying Starbucks as the pinnacle of coffee is like identifying Michael Jackson as the model of proper child care.
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Just reading your post is enough to have to send the Seals on a night mission, with only the moon for illumination. Or stock the pond with brown trout. Or dunk the Oompa Loompas at the Chocolate factory. Or make like the Cadbury bunny. Or start construction on my underwater theme park. Or bring the kids to the water slide. Or play the tuba backwards. Or eat a Snickers in reverse. Or deliver packages for UP-ass. Or give the pipes something to think about. Or take Billy Ruben to church. Or work my part-time job at Fanny Farmer. Or recreate Pangea. Or...ok thanks, I'm done.
I love coffee, and espresso is awesome! I drink like 12 big cups of espresso everyday and it's super super super super superrrrrrr....um...what was I saying? WHO CARES! Another sip!
I'm typing this on my treadmill right now while playing my guitar and espresso and coffee and espresso makes this happennnnning for meeeeee.
It givesss me so mucch time to work on thingz tooo since I don't have to worrry about sleeep anymore. I haven't slept since 1983 and looke at me! Alert! Perceptive! Razor sharp!
Have to go, working on my cure for cancer and have a roast in the oven while painting a self-portrait!
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Seriously folks, can the news possibly get any better for us Nerds?
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Anyway, it's nice to see that coffee is good for your liver. Even more reason that it's the perfect hangover fix -- takes away the headache AND fixes the damage you did to your liver the previous night... :)
Coffee drinking is like gambling or smoking -- if you don't develop a taste for it, you'll be better off and the only thing you'll miss out on is satisfying cravings you don't have in the first place.
As a gambling, smoking caffeine addict, I take offense to your (twitch) characterization of me as (tic) slave to my (cough) bad habits.
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It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning,
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
This guy is way out there
Dude.... That's a bong...
Don't forget your health insurance card. FYI, higher copay applies to all filled donuts.
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What you guys need is the new "Big Tim" cup from Tim Hortons.
This Coffee cup holds an entire pot of coffee and keeps it warm all day long. Also it has a big warning on it NOT TO DRINK FROM IT. But I do anyways. All it looks like is a giant coffee cup. For sure it would be a good gift for the coffee drinkers alike.
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And my personal favorite, being a techie... I'm going to go download some brownware!
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I'll enjoy a healthy pot of java while I enjoy my healthy bucket of KFC!
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I think that this study, coupled with some other recent research, pretty much conclusively proves that I will live forever.
That should read, "Go to your nearest independant place near a college campus" for cheap, strung-out coffee and obnoxious, pretentious patrons.
... go out on the highway ... drive to the middle of nowhere and stop at the dirtiest, dingiest truck stop you can find. When coffee is a neccessity for your livelihood and personal safety , you can be damn sure they'll do it right.
Such places *do* tend to be full of obnoxious, pretentious patrons, but the attraction of such places is that the coffee that they sell is supposed to be of very high quality, freshly roasted and with careful attention paid to serving. It's not always the case though, I'll admit.
Look at me, mama! I'm a college boy now! I drink 'expresso' with the girlies! w00t!
Heh. If *you* were a college boy, you'd know that the stuff was actually called 'espresso'. And don't knock it. He'll *still* be fucking those fine, perfumed college-educated girls when Mrs. Lambent is too worn out to give you any, because of her long day tendering the hogs.
If you want REALLY good coffee, get in your car
Don't talk crap. When did you ever find a dirty dingy truck stop that sold single estate arabicas and fine espresso blends that were roasted within the last few days and ground immediately before serving?
Of course, if your idea of 'doing it right' is serving up commercial swill that's grown in Vietnam and sold at $2 per ton to multinational companies, then you're absolutely correct. You'll find plenty of that in dingy truck stops.
Personally, I'd rather drink raw sewage than that crap, but if that's your favoured drink -- enjoy.
Perhaps the old slapper serving up the stuff may even become the future Mrs. Lambent?
Dammit, in my job I don't survive without 3 or 4 dozen.