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Study Says Coffee Protects Against Cirrhosis
An anonymous reader writes "Good news for those who like both coffee and alcohol. In a recent study of more than 125,000 people an Oakland, CA medical team found that consuming coffee seems to help protect against alcoholic cirrhosis. The study was done based on people enrolled in a private northern California health care plan between 1978 and 1985." From the article: "People drinking one cup of coffee per day were, on average, 20% less likely to develop alcoholic cirrhosis. For people drinking two or three cups the reduction was 40%, and for those drinking four or more cups of coffee a day the reduction in risk was 80%."
Being I drink about 12-16 cups a day I'm glad to know my alcholism won't be doing much to me. I think I'll have a shot now followed by some starbucks
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Set me up with another Irish coffee barkeep, heavy on the Irish!
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I must drink beer.
Beer is the painkiller.
And beer is the little drink that brings total satisfaction.
I will drink my beer.
I will permit it to pass through me.
And where the beer has gone there will be nothing.
Only a hangover will remain.
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 shakes, the shakes become a warning,
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Encasing your body in concrete has been shown to reduce your risk of injury due to personal assault.
You first. Tell us how that works out.
This just confirms something that many of us have known for years: beer and coffee have a very precise balance in the body. If you throw the balance off, then you feel like crap.
That's why before your first coffee of the morning, you feel bad. Then, you feel good once you've had your coffee. But by the time late-afternoon rolls around, you definitely feel like crap again and go for a beer. The beer makes you feel better until you go to bed. Rinse and repeat.
.... then a paper will be published on how coffee is a primary cause of cirrhosis
we drink neither and break our social and behavioral substance dependencies.
There's something to be said about "breaking substance dependencies" being modded funny
Then again, those of us that live in glass houses....
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Kinda loses its impact when you spell "genius" incorrectly.
And here's me, remembering from one of the Looney Tunes: Sir Osis of Liver
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Caffine GOOD!
No negative effects@!!!!
NONE NONE!!!!
Caffine GOOD!!!!
Oh! Thank you, kind citizen! I was not aware that alcohol could hurt me, until your insightful comment! How can I ever repay you? You are a true humanitarian, and your wisdom knows no bounds! You have re-affirmed my faith in humanity!
Signed,
- An Alcoholic
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
I'll drink to that.
Well, this explains why Grampa isn't dead yet. We were wondering...
You'll get my whiskey, smokes and coffee when... err...
Let's rephrase that.
Try and take them away, and I'll get my whiskey, smokes and coffee back out of your cold dead hands.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Well duh!
If you're drinking two cups of coffee with your Cheerios at breakfast, that's two Martinis that you're not drinking with your Cheerios at breakfast.
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As an adjunct, they noted that consuming tea does not have a similar effect.
Doc: Nurse, this man's liver is failing! Get him four cups of coffee, strong and black!
Nurse: But, Doctor, he's caffeine intolerant - it says it interacts with his other meds.
Doc: Oh, ok, in that case, give it to me, I'll drink it.
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Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off
the charts mm-hai.
CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
Fox: We present the facts, you make up your mind.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Bad coverage on Fox? Really??? I'm amazed. Shocked, even.
Lost: Sig, white with black letters. No collar. Reward if found!
"People who drink beers != drinking to excess or becomeng unihibited."
Tell that to my Mother-in-law!
Have to update the old joke about the ineffectiveness of using coffee to sober up.
Q: What do you get when you feed coffee to a drunk?
A: A wide-awake drunk (with a healthy liver.)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
I rarely drink anything aside from water and white milk .....But then I'm a college student, so I guess I have a long road ahead of me.
Yes the next step would be breast milk....
I highly recommend coffee, tequila & Bailey's. This news explains why I was in such good shape when I drank it.