Coffee – Amazing Stuff
I have been experimenting with coffee a lot in the past few months by having at least 1-2 cups / day. You know how you always hear about the coffee’s health benefits so I wanted to put it to the test. I started off with drinking black coffee in the morning and a couple months ago, starting adding milk.
I can’t say that I have noticed much of a difference between black coffee and when I added milk. One of the most obvious benefits is coffee helps you go to the toilet. It regulates your system, one of the things I love about it.
It has been widely reported that coffee also has a positive effect on Asthma, it has certainly helped mine. Caffeine has been used for Asthma treatment long before Symbicort or any conventional medication and science suggests that caffeine is an effective bronchodilator. However, some say to experience any effects one should drink pure black coffee.
Coffee puts the system under the strain of metabolizing a deadly acid-forming drug, depositing its insoluble cellulose, which cements the wall of the liver, causing this vital organ to swell to twice its proper size. In addition, coffee is heavily sprayed. (Ninety-two pesticides are applied to its leaves.) Diuretic properties of caffeine cause potassium and other minerals to be flushed from the body.
All this fear went away when I quit, and it was a book that inspired me to do it called The Truth About Caffeine by Marina Kushner. There are five things I liked about this book:
1) It details–thoroughly–the ways in which caffeine may damage your health.
2) It reveals the damage that coffee does to the environment. Specifically, coffee was once grown in the shade, so that trees were left in place. Then sun coffee was introduced, allowing greater yields but contributing to the destruction of rain forests. I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere else.
3) It explains how best to go off coffee. This is important. If you try cold turkey, as most people probably do, the withdrawal symptoms will likely drive you right back to coffee.
4) Helped me find a great resource for the latest studies at CaffeineAwareness.org
5) Also, if you drink decaf you won’t want to miss this special free report on the dangers of decaf available at http://www.soyfee.com