Researchers report that drinking coffee cuts the risk of cirrhosis of the liver from alcohol -- by 22 percent per cup each day...I remember when I used to feel guilty about drinking 3 or 4 cups a day. Of course, I also remember the days in graduate school when my hands would shake after 8-10 cups a day. Moderation in all things. But god bless the java.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Coffee is the Magic Elixir
It picks you up in the morning. It is rich in antioxidants. It helps prevents Parkinson's Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, and gall stones. And now it protects your liver if you drink:
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Caffeine free Day 5!
After hearing the fourth health care professional in the past couple years admonish me last Thursday for drinking moderate amounts of soda and coffee I figured I'd better listen to them and that it must be past time to eliminate beverages with carbonation and/or caffeine from my diet. So in an effort to improve sleep, mood stability, weight loss, osteoarthritis relief, and bladder woes--all of which are adversely effected by caffine and/or carbonation my health care professionals tell me--I gave it up. Cold turkey!
I believe the worst of the withdrawl is over now. My spouse, only at my suggestion, but not at my demand, also gave it up too. For him, this is a much harder thing. He's awakened for the past XX years to 24 oz of diet coke on his commute to work. On hot summer days he's been known to go through over 64oz. Prior to diet coke, coffee was his beverage of choice and he was a 10-12 cup-a-day man. When he gave up the coffee addiction in the 90s he had severe headaches for a week. Unfortunately he replaced that habit with the caffeinatted Diet Coke.
Over the past week we'd been talking to the kids about drinking more milk and water because their soda consumption was creeping up and their milk consumption was way too low for kids whose bones were still growning. Last night they had that paniced look of addicts about to lose their fix when my spouse warned, as they were drinking their Diet Sprite with dinner, "When the pop in the garage is gone, it's not being replaced." Now naturally they are not coffee drinkers, but they were headed down the road to carbonation addiction. (We always bought them caffeine-free soda.)
So we are feeling healthier and more self-righteous around here this week. I can't say for sure whether my sleeping is better and its too soon to know whether the other things will improve. But my kids are beginning to drink more water and milk and we are modeling good behavior. We will also save a small fortune in the money that was being spent on our soda and coffee addictions and replacing it with water. Just think how many starving children we can feed by cutting out all those trips to the coffee shops!
And now I'll go prepare my cup of water with fresh squeezed lemon and much on a few dried wild blueberries. Both of which are antioxidents. The lemon in the water idea was suggested by liberalchurchinBurnsville's Wellness Minister last month.
OK, I agree that there are good reasons for not being addicted to caffeine. Fortunately, until the last few years when Mary Ann started buying soda to drink at work, we never did the pop thing, and our kids never drank it except on pizza nights. Now, Meagan doesn't drink it at all, and Ryan and I occasionally will have a soda. Mary Ann has her morning tea and I have my coffee.
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