Comments on: I’m out of coffee this morning… http://www.jerryfrazierphotography.com/blog/personal/im-out-of-coffee-this-morning/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:17:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Shaunna http://www.jerryfrazierphotography.com/blog/personal/im-out-of-coffee-this-morning/#comment-842 Shaunna Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:33:25 +0000 http://www.frazierphotography.com/blog/personal/im-out-of-coffee-this-morning/#comment-842 I am not a coffee person myself, but manage to brew a pretty good pot of Folgers from time to time (*blush*)... According to Doctors Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen, coffee is pretty good for you since it contains antioxidants and is easy to balance the negatives by compensating with an extra 20 mg or so of calcium + 10 mg of magnesium per cup a day... I'm big on organic wherever I can be, so if what Susan says about the pesticides is true, I'd try for organic + Fair Trade coffee. *shrug* And all that being said, Alton Brown made a really good episode of Good Eats all about coffee, plus another about espresso. (I don't drink that either, but love Good Eats!) Just my 2¢... I am not a coffee person myself, but manage to brew a pretty good pot of Folgers from time to time (*blush*)…

According to Doctors Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen, coffee is pretty good for you since it contains antioxidants and is easy to balance the negatives by compensating with an extra 20 mg or so of calcium + 10 mg of magnesium per cup a day…

I’m big on organic wherever I can be, so if what Susan says about the pesticides is true, I’d try for organic + Fair Trade coffee. *shrug*

And all that being said, Alton Brown made a really good episode of Good Eats all about coffee, plus another about espresso. (I don’t drink that either, but love Good Eats!)

Just my 2¢…

]]> By: Susan http://www.jerryfrazierphotography.com/blog/personal/im-out-of-coffee-this-morning/#comment-5 Susan Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:09:26 +0000 http://www.frazierphotography.com/blog/personal/im-out-of-coffee-this-morning/#comment-5 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 www.soyfee.com 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

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