Guest guest Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 I know several women who consumed what I consider large amounts of coffee during the lactation period of their children and all of the children by the time they were two had rotted teeth. All of the teeth. Elainie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 How much sugar did these women add to their many cups of coffee? I know of a woman whose doctor told her to drink a lot of coffee during her pregnancy inorder to not gain too much (?) weight. She drank up to 11 cups or more a day.When the baby grew to manhood he had major heart irregularities. They came on suddenly. He collapsed. He almost died. Now he has a pacemaker and he is only in his 30's. I wonder if there is a connection? Sheila .. > I know several women who consumed what I consider large amounts of coffee > during the lactation period of their children and all of the children by the > time they were two had rotted teeth. All of the teeth. > > Elainie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 In a message dated 9/18/03 9:45:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, zumicat@... writes: > I know several women who consumed what I consider large amounts of coffee > during the lactation period of their children and all of the children by the > > time they were two had rotted teeth. All of the teeth. And I said that large amounts of coffee I would expect to cause cavities. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 In a message dated 9/18/03 11:52:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, h2ocolor@... writes: > How much sugar did these women add to their many cups of coffee? > > I know of a woman whose doctor told her to drink a lot of coffee > during her pregnancy inorder to not gain too much (?) weight. She > drank up to 11 cups or more a day.When the baby grew to manhood he > had major heart irregularities. They came on suddenly. He collapsed. > He almost died. Now he has a pacemaker and he is only in his 30's. I > wonder if there is a connection? Sheila, Caffeine in large amounts disturbs the calcium phosphorus ratio of the blood. So does sugar. " Large " depends on your metabolism. For some folks, 6 oz is too much, for others, it's not. Coffee cups, except in the health food stores, keep getting bigger and bigger. Dunkin Donuts sells a 24-ouncer now. That's why caffeine causes problems, because people abuse it. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 No sugar at all. These ladies are into whole foods no sugar. Just black coffee. Elainie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Yup, I know you said that. I was just adding a personal story. Elainie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 In a message dated 9/19/03 11:09:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Dpdg@... writes: > silly question... > would black unsweetened coffee cause cavities?... is it the coffee or the > sugar in it? Yes, it could, depending on the amount and your metabolism of it. If you like lots of sugar, the sugar wouldn't help, but the amount of sugar I put in my coffee is pretty negligible compared to the affect of the caffeine, in my opinion. Both sugar and caffeine will upset the Ca-P balance in the blood and decrease absorption of calcium in your bones or leach calcium from your bones. Caffeine doesn't " cause " cavities in the sense that to the extent you have a certain amount of coffee you will get a certain amount of cavities. There's no such linear relationship. About 20% of people can eat all the sugar or drink all the coffee they want with basically no effect on their Ca-P ratio, in which case the only negative effect of the sugar would be displacing nutrient-dense foods with empty calories, which in very large amounts could lead to cavities, but that's the lack of nutrients, not the sugar itself, that's causal. My personal opinion is try this: go five days with no caffeine, then drink coffee on an empty stomach upon rising. The amount of coffee that you can drink without getting a buzz from it (jitters, butterflies in the tummy, any other symptoms of excessive adrenaline, etc, only " more alert " would be allowable), is the amount of coffee your system can handle. In addition, I'd keep consumption under 100 mg a day to prevent dependence. That's one cup of moderate (not strong) coffee, two cups of black tea, or three or four cups of green tea (they all vary but that's a good estimate). Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 In a message dated 9/19/03 10:28:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, zumicat@... writes: > Yup, I know you said that. I was just adding a personal story. > Elainie Oh, ok. Sorry :-) Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 silly question... would black unsweetened coffee cause cavities?... is it the coffee or the sugar in it? Dedy And I said that large amounts of coffee I would expect to cause cavities. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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