4.29.2010

Coffee Addiction



It is 3.051am and I finally found a decent template for my blog! For two hours I was trying to alter slides on some magazine templates, but I failed to do so. I don't see any meaning when I look at the template coding. Its very confusing, so I just give up!


After my second cup of coffee I lost count- I might have drunk three or four more. I have a habit of eating chocolate while drinking coffee. I prefer 71% dark chocolate with Turkish coffee. When I don't have the time to cook Turkish coffee I drink Nescafe Rich with antioxidants. Who wouldn't want to drink coffee with antioxidants? (sarcasm)
I am a big time coffee drinker. I used to drink from five to seven cups a day. Shocking, I know. I cut down to two a day to none. I guess today was the day to break the coffee strike again.
For those of you who still believe in the famous saying, "coffee stunts your growth," you are wrong! There is no single study stating that coffee stunts the growth. Coffee only stimulates the nervous system. High doses of caffeine causes dizziness, anxiety and sleeping disorders- insomnia.
Coffee is the world's most widely used drug, caffeine is a stimulant and has no nutritional value. It is a diuretic, so it drains the calcium out of your body; it gets excreted from your bones. Caffeine is also implicated as a contributor to osteoporosis. Caffeine also elevates the blood pressure causing hypertension, dehydration, heart rhythm disturbances; irregular heartbeats and bad cholesterol, because of the two cholesterol raising compounds; cafestol and kahweol.
As for the good contributions of coffee, Harward research department stated that it can greatly lower the risk of developing diabetes, the Parkinson's disease and the kidney stones; coffee increases the urine volume, preventing the crystallisation of the calcium oxalate, most common component of kidney stones. Caffeine is related to theophylline, an old asthma medication which can also open airways for patients with asthma. We all know the most known contribution of coffee is that it provides mental alertness.
If you are trying to cut back on caffeine, do it gradually. Stopping suddenly can cause headaches and fatigue.






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