[lit-ideas] FW: Re: Bizarre Side Effect of Drinking Coffee
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:29:04 -0400
Interestingly, coffee doesn't raise blood pressure, but
> caffeinated soda does. It's unclear why.
Like duh. It's the flavonoids in the coffee that are credited.
>
> I had not heard that coffee did anything for the liver. Pretty old news
> now (coming up on almost ten years), but I know coffee has been associated
> with reduced (as in lower rates of) Parkinson's disease over people who
> don't drink coffee, but it's unknown if it's a cause and effect or what
the
> connection is. Coffee is supposedly high in flavonoids, the
phytochemicals
> also found in wine and chocolate. It's so high, in fact, that in the
> non-vegetable eating populations of the U.S., coffee is a primary source
of
> flavonoids. That's probably saying more about how few vegetables people
> eat than about how good coffee is. Tea is also very healthful, possibly
> more so than coffee. I'm not sure if has flavonoids but it has other
> compounds (catechins I believe) that are just as powerful. Even alcohol,
> in moderation, is good for the brain and the heart. It doesn't matter if
> it's wine or beer or the hard stuff. In more than low to moderate amounts
> it's destructive. Most likely we evolved ingesting small quantities of
> alcohol in the form of fermented fruits that we little hominoids found
> lying around. Interestingly, coffee doesn't raise blood pressure, but
> caffeinated soda does. It's unclear why. Nutrition is still my favorite
> subject.
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 6/13/2006 12:24:36 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bizarre Side Effect of Drinking Coffee
> >
> > There was another study which seemed to show that coffee mitigated the
> > ill effects of alcohol on the liver. Sounds like good news...I think
> > you had to drink lots of coffee and lots of alcohol to get the effect,
> > though.
> > Enjoy...
> > Ursula
> >
> > Omar Kusturica wrote:
> >
> > >*I've long been given to drinking large amounts of
> > >coffee (mostly at daytime) as well as large amounts of
> > >alcohol. (mostly at nightime) I've always thought
> > >about them as opposite extremes, I guess that I'll try
> > >to rethink the relation now. (Though it will probably
> > >have to wait until I am in the coffee stage.)
> > >
> > >O.K.
> > >
> > >
> >
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