At Christmas we purchased a fantastic little Espresso machine and have been knocking the black liquid in quick shots for a couple of weeks now. I don’t so much walk to the office anymore, as “fly” – I am high as a kite.
I have been worried of late that I get more headaches than I used to… Am I poisoning myself with too much coffee?
I also just read a blog from someone in Boston – home of the Mad Tea Party who is anxious he is consuming too much coffee and it got me thinking some more.
There was a scare story in the UK Sunday Times last week. And I quote:
COFFEE is responsible for as much as a third of daily consumption of the cancer-causing chemical acrylamide, research by the United Nations has found.
The story goes on to say that drinking dark-roast coffee is better than medium or light… it is the process of roasting that creates acrylamide.
So as for giving up… I don’t think I will bother, just raise a cup of the strong stuff!!
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Is coffee poison?
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A biochemist of my acquaintance says there's no way coffee would be legalised for sale as a food product if discovered today. Might make it as an insecticide.
Me, I'll join you raising that cup.
Yeh, it's highly addictive as well, especially these strong Columbian varieties.
If can lead to mood swings, dehydration and resulting tiredness, a vicious spiral where the more you drink the more tired you become and the more you need that next fix.
You become desperate for your next hit and will go to any extreme to get it so much so that family, work and other personal relationships can suffer.
Tastes good though.
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