the elephant wrote:I deal with it by whining on tuba web forums while consuming unhealthy amounts of coffee.
Just want to point out that the most common "unhealthy amount" of coffee consumption is "not enough." How much is enough, depends on the particular effect they're looking at - for example, from a Harvard analysis it looked like three to five cups a day is optimal for cardiovascular benefits, while another Harvard study on depression said four or more. Among the many benefits:
reduced risk of colorectal cancer and melanoma
reduced incidence/severity of depression
[caffeinated only] reduced incidence of tinnitus
Coffee "studies" come and go with the seasons and with the fashions.
- I bought my Mom (coffee-lover) some very high-in-caffeine-at-that-time (certainly compared to what she had been purchasing at her grocery) cans of coffee (Farmer Brothers) and it ~gave~ her tinnitus (which stopped, when she moved back to her lower-in-caffeine grocery store coffee).
- I had to stop drinking coffee and move to tea, because coffee messed up my (let's call it) "digestion". Whenever I try coffee again, the same symptoms immediately follow. Based on personal experience, I simply cannot coax myself into believing that "daily diarrhea" is a preventative of colorectal cancer.
Are my reports "anecdotal"? Of course they are - just as are Harvard's.
bloke "There are many self-appointed arbiters of trvth. They question is this: Do we pay attention to them?"
Of course we pay attention Bloke...when they say what we like to hear. If not, we wait a little while until another manufacturer funded study comes out with what we like to hear. Coffee is fine for me up to 2 cups a day. Cups, not quart size jugs.
