Coffee: Good or bad?

[Willamena]

Coffee growers tell us that coffee is full of anti-oxidants, and although it contains a natural stimulant, its benefits outweigh any bad.

But now Fox News is telling us that coffee can kill our babies, in their mother's womb no less.

Who to believe?

 

[Francine]

Up here in the Great Pacific Northwest we all go around with coffee on an IV drip.

 

[lunamoth]

Coffee (caffeine) is a teratogen, a 'monster-maker,' and can lead to birth defects. Pregnant women should avoid caffeine.

 

[Willamena]

I added a poll.

 

[lunamoth]

I added a poll.

I voted 'coffee good' but only because you did not have the option 'coffee very very good.':coffee2:

 

[doppelganger]

There's nothing I hate more than free radicals. They disrupt the idyllic tranquility of my fascist worldview.

Therefore, coffee good because it is loaded with antioxidants.

Coffee is number one source of antioxidants

(though Luna is right about the pregnant women)

 

[Somkid]

You can survive to be 110 or older if you don't have any fun but that's not living.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Coffee is very very good, but I voted for both/neither/other because I'm difficult.

 

[Francine]

You can survive to be 110 or older if you don't have any fun but that's not living.

What is fun to twenty year old kids is not always fun to forty year olds, or sixty, or hunnert year olds.

 

[Somkid]

What is fun to twenty year old kids is not always fun to forty year olds, or sixty, or hunnert year olds.

Oh, I don't know my tastes have changed over the years and my body has aged but I still enjoy many of the things I did when I was 18 it's just not as easy anymore.

 

[McBell]

Health Benefits of Coffee - WebMD

Coffee Health - Coffee Risk

 

[Isabella Lecour]

Coffee growers tell us that coffee is full of anti-oxidants, and although it contains a natural stimulant, its benefits outweigh any bad.

But now Fox News is telling us that coffee can kill our babies, in their mother's womb no less.

Who to believe?

Coffee is good, but I'm a coffee'olic. Anyway I listened to my daughter when I carried her. Every time I tried to drink my favorite brew, I got very sick in the tummy. I gave up the coffee while I carried her. I just figured she knew what was good and what wasn't, right along with tomatoes..don't know why I couldn't eat them either.

 

[sandandfoam]

Columbian coffee.mmmmmmmm. I can now make it in my sleep so every morning I wake to a perfect day. Just working through my first pot now.

 

[methylatedghosts]

I really like coffee.

Don't think it's that great for me though -

Maybe it's like alcohol - use in moderation.

 

[Smoke]

I voted both/neither/other because I don't like coffee, but I like the smell of it.

 

[RationalSoulution]

interesting stuff... i never drank much cause i always thought caffeine and sugar was bad for your heart and body. Ever since i read something about Red Bull being bad for you I've stayed away, but this may lead to a new found love...

 

[Dr. Nosophoros]

Coffee seems to be a food group right beside meat, fruit, and vegetables to me (fresh air is in their somewhere). When I am at home and have the time I prefer cooking up a good Turkish in my Ibrik but an espresso or two is less trouble and quicker. Overall with both I agree with the Turkish saying: "Coffee should be strong as hell, black as death, and sweet as love"
Coffee=goodness

 

[blackout]

coffee. Mmmmmmmmmmmm........
(my nightshift brew)

 

[Don Penguinoini]

tea good!!!

 

[Smoke]

tea good!!!

I read somewhere -- and it wasn't on the Lipton website, either -- that drinking tea may actually be better for you than drinking water. (Probably not if you gum it up with milk and sugar, though,)