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Java Jive
Dear Friend,
It was bound to happen. I knew it; it was just a matter of time. A
pro-coffee study would be published touting all the benefits of coffee
and I would be flooded with emails alerting me to this "science" and
some people would even go so far as to threaten me if I didn't publish
the latest java jive.
It reminds me of an old Japanese story.
Whenever the Emperor had musicians playing the flute, he had three
hundred of them playing together. Knowing this, a student applied for a
job. The king accepted and paid him the same salary as the others.
After the Emperor's death, a prince became the new Emperor. He liked to
have musicians playing solo.
The student fled.
And so it is with the coffee propaganda machine. With 80% of the
American public addicted to caffeine, what would you expect.
Here's the test.
Stop drinking coffee for 5 days and if your body has no reaction, no
withdrawal symptoms, you have no headaches, no anxiousness, no
cravings, and so on and such forth; then by all means continue your
habit, it's not me you're hurting. The trouble is, that's not going to
happen.
Now on the other hand, let's say you really love apples. You eat a
couple of apples a day, and many people do. Or peanut butter, a couple
of tablespoons a day. I'm willing to bet that you could easily go
without them for five days with no symptoms whatsoever.
It's the caffeine that makes a difference. Whatever dubious benefits
are proffered by pro-coffee studies are negated by the myriad of
deleterious effects of caffeine, something mysteriously missing from
the study.
I've reviewed the evidence on coffee. You don't have to be a rocket
scientist to know that you'll feel a whole lot better if you don't
drink it.
And by the way, way down in the article it says there is no substitute
for fruits and vegetables. Funny, they don't make you jittery. And in
the long run, they'll do more to keep you bright eyed and bushytailed
than any java.
Not only that, BUT it was said that Americans get MOST of their
antioxidants from coffee.
Now, wouldn't you know that the pee-brained nit-witted folks who
complain to me that I'm somehow spreading harmful information by
telling people NOT to drink coffee - that they
don't read between the lines of the so-called study.
It did NOT say that their are more antioxidants in coffee. It simply
said that Americans get
most of their antioxidants from coffee.
Duh. That's real hard to understand, isn't it. Americans don't eat much
fruit, they don't
eat many vegetables, they don't consume berry drinks like I do, namely,
elderberry,
chokeberry, black currant and bilberry. They don't take lycopene in
liquid form. They
don't consume freshly squeezed juices.
But yes, they get their coffee, often laced with cream, sugar or sugar
substitutes. And
they get their diet drinks, loaded with hazardous chemicals.
And yes, some idiot chemist figured this out and shared it with the
world.
I ain't no chemist - but I can out-think that ma-roon with all my
brains tied behind
my back.
The next time someone tells you that drinking coffee will help reduce
your chances
of getting prostate, colon, liver or some other cancer - ask if it
would then be
advisable to do coffee enemas. Afterall, if it works that well going in
the mouth,
don't you think it would work even better from the other end.
Don't be too quick to believe in studies, even from doctors. I have two
M.D.'s in my family, and they'll vouch for how little they were taught
in med
school about nutrition.
As for Medicine, well that is quite another matter. Always remember
this:
The same people touting the wonders of coffee studies may be the same
people who prescribed Vioxx - or those anti-depressants that make men
impotent and women suicidal.
Or .. as that wonderful man Mark Twain once said, "Be careful what you
read in health books. You may die of a misprint."
I say, be careful of what you read in a NEW STUDY - you may die of
terribly misleading information.
Kick butt - take names,
Matt Furey
P.S. When you boil it all down, when you take away the orchestra, and
force coffee to stand on its own and play, it doesn't measure up, and
all it's flaws are exposed. A good healthy diet, and bodyweight
exercise, is the way of the master. For all your health and exercise
needs, go to Furey Central.
P.P.S. One more thing, to get the real truth about how something
effects you - test things
out on yourself and keep track of your results. That's what I did with
coffee. Believe me,
I read all the studies beforehand and used them to convince myself to
keep drinking.
I was wrong. The stuff was killing me and I've never felt better since
I dropped it.
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