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Thu 31 Oct, 2002 10:35 pm
Sounds like it only works for women.
Well, rootie tootie tootie.
I'm discriminated
Did you know that nicotine helps schizophrenics (and quite possibly the rest of us) concentrate?
Perhaps there should be a term, "practical addiction"?
Guess it only works on the female side of the brain (I can never remember if that's the right or left -- guess maybe the diet pepsi isn't as good as coffee)
Nicotine and caffeine are now good. Margarine isn't but butter is. Feller could get whiplash just reading the news.
I've been thinking about the Women/Coffee question. Perhaps all of the frisky geriatric female minds have spent years and years and years getting out of bed and making the coffee?
And this self activation/self-sacrifice is being rewarded?
Noddy, between my diet pepsi and my cigarettes, I should be in excellent shape in a few years mentally, if not physically. Nice to know.
roger, I am a firm believer in the theory that if one lives long enough, the results of every study that was ever done will be reversed at least 3 times.
Actually, I think the caffeine is the result rather than the cause. We caffeine drinkers have more active minds to begin with and just drink the caffeine so the body can keep up with the mind.
Not bad, Bandylu. Not bad at all.
It has been said by those who know me best that if I ever gave up my caffeine I'd probably drop dead.
I have to bring my own coffee into work, as the family I work for only drinks decaf,....eeeewww!!
I was hiding a few cans of those Starbuck's "Double Shots" sweetened espresso in their fridge, that was until their fifteen year old daughter got at them, and I had to peel her from the dining room ceiling as I was serving their supper!!
Maybe you should clue them in to the benefits of caffeine, Jerry (though then you might have to share your coffee with the whole family).
I LIKE the idea that some of us have to run our bodies fast to keep up with our minds!
I have a BIG coffee hit in the morning - kind of like a big starting crank - and less during the day - I wonder what THAT does to what the coffeee is doing?
I've also read that since coffee stimulates insulin which results in sugars beings stored as fat that you can lose weight by cutting out coffee for at least two weeks. I only drink about one mug a day and seldom finish that so I figure it's a 1-1/2 cups, albeit with a few tablespoons of lightener like Coffeemate. I use Kuaii Estate right now (ran out of the Galapagos but am going to reorder) and the gourmet coffees are lower in caffein but higher in fats.
Coffee is the only thing I make myself and it's very important to my happiness.
I have 2 mugs of mocha java, with Equal and whole milk.
As I've gotten older, I think products like skimmed milk are wrong.
They are not natural.
Does anyone remember the late sixties' advertisement for coffee as "The Think Drink"?
(If you don't you didn't drink enough).
I remember there was a study, carried out in Minnesota, in which elderly coffee-drinking men were more active sexually than non-coffee drinkers. Serves to tell you about the different priorities (of scientists, of course)
I have lowered my caffine consumption to one cup a day, in the morning. Now I sleep like a baby at night and fall asleep right away.
Hey, Boss, my doctor told me (when i went to him for sleep problems) that, in fact, a small amount of stimulant--such as a single cup of coffee--can actually be effective in helping one to sleep. Dunno, the sleep problems seem to have gone away on their own, so i've not tried it empirically.
Hi Bandylu -- I'm glad this thread came back up to the top of the list.... thanks for sharing a good article....
excuse me, I'm going to walk over to the coffee carafe (I'm at work) and pour myself another cup.....
I seem to recall (from secondary sources, since I wasn't actually there) that Watson and Crick (sp?) -- the DNA double-helix discovery guys -- said, in effect, "ignore data," since half of it was inaccurate and misleading anyway, and bad data looks no different than good data.
Not that Mother Caffeine isn't one of the last drugs I'm using to keep mind and body going in the daily drudgery of unwanted and spiritually unrewarding employment.
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