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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Get a load of this news!

While I'm not a coffeeholic, I do like my caffeine.

Good news all around, except for the folks who, despite the facts, will still insist drinking caffeine is bad for you? Perhaps on a spiritual level...?

--Baloo

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

One time my mom went to the doctor's, the doc told her that she had irregular heartbeat, and she was supposed to quit caffeine. The only time she ever drank coffee was one or two cups at work (she's a nurse). Her heartbeat went back to normal went she did that. A few weeks after, she started drinking at work again (she works 12 hours at a time, which is rather exhausting), and the irregular heartbeat came back the next day (she could feel it occasionally). It went away again only when she discontinued the coffee drinking.

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Well, coffee is a complex liquid. . . .

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Posted by PPG Skittles on :

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Researchers there led by Takayuki Shibamoto announced in February that just smelling freshly brewed coffee can make you healthier. They concluded that the aroma of coffee contains about 300 antioxidants and that the smell of regular or decaffeinated gives you the same benefit as eating three oranges.

Now people who hate coffee (like me) will start making coffee just to smell it. *LOL* That's like ordering a pizza, JUST so it can sit there in the kitchen making everyone hungry in the whole house. But if simply the smell of coffee is this good, then coffee most certainly IS a complex liquid. *LOL*

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

The Arizona Republic? *LOL*

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Coffee doesn't bother me and i don't ever get nerveous or do stupidshitlikerun all my wordstogether and anyway i only drink coffee at work it's the pitcher of tea that i drink every day of my life that really gets me going most days but i don't think caffine has much to do with it whatdoyouthink?

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

I don't drink coffee. I'm somewhat very Caffeine Sensitive. If I drink a glass of coke after a certain time, I won't be able to sleep. If Coke does that to me, wonder what one simple glass of Coffee will do to me as well....... Therefore I drink Hot Chocolate at work....... My coffee-substitute...........

BTW: What about Mountain Dew? Heard it has more Caffeine than Coke.......

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

I think Mountain Dew has more caffeine than Coke in the U.S., but not in Canada...

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

1.Jolt Cola
2.Mountain Dew
3. Coke and all others, they may not be the same, but are in the same range.

I drink tea brewed a lot stronger then most, twice as strong as in resteraunts here in WV. Only a little stronger then most that you get in the south.(sourthen USA)

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

And here's a more definitive answer, courtesy of the Straight Dope:

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcaffeine.html

Ah, the wonders of modern science!

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Coke, now there's a beverage that i've recently been told is dangerous because it's been able to take the rust off of cars. Apparently it has alot of acid in it or something. *shrugs*

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

So does your stomach (ever hear of hydrochloric acid?) Coke (and many other cola beverages) contains phosphoric acid. So (coincidentally, I suppose) do many over-the-counter anti-emetics (medicine that settles yer somache so's ya don't hurl).

In fact, doctors used to recommend Coke syrup diluted in water to settle the stomach of small children suffering nausea from certain maladies.

Unless you have a prior history of adverse effects from drinking coke, I wouldn't worry about it. If you are sensitive to acidic foods, don't drink Coke (or lemonade, for that matter). Otherwise, don't worry about it.

--Baloo

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