RE: Re: Coffee and Breast Cancer

[Guest guest]

Hi Elena,

> Oh, and the downside of six cups a day is, it makes you so damn smart

> that your coffeeless and/or one-cup-a-day peers mistake what you think

> for utter idiocy, having no frame of reference for your thought

> process anymore! ;-)

I like'te... LOL

Attempt of resolving the dissonance is well recieved, as it's wrapped with

wittiness and charm (-;

Cheers,

Gubi

[Guest guest]

Only works if you do not have an allergy to the coffee oils.

Bruce Guilmette, PhD

Survive Cancer Foundation, Inc.

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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matt 6:34 (NIV)

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Behalf Of me2youlink

Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 6:03 AM

Subject: [ ] Re: Coffee and Breast Cancer

Hi Gubi,

> Any downside to drinking 6 cups of coffee (even when it is drunk

black, ie

> no milk, cream or sugar added) a day? (0:

A delightful and superbly researched book, The World of Caffeine,

might answer your question. It traces the history of coffee

consumption to the dawn of the human race and gives a rather

comprehensive picture of the pros and cons of same (i.e. of coffee

consumption, not the human race). My favorite historical anecdote

from this book:

a medieval Turkish sultan decided to malign and eventually eliminate

coffee because he figured he didn't need smart subjects (one side

effect of regular and generous coffee consumption is intelligence, due

to its efficient support of the crucial neocortical structures.

There's paleoanthropological evidence that consumption of

caffeine-containing plants by our primate ancestors was largely

responsible for making us human to begin with, due to its modifying

and rewiring the latter's brains in the general direction of what the

human brain is like today -- a caffeine-processing biological machine

that cannot fully mature without it!) Anyway, the sultan started out

with propaganda and moved on to prohibition, ordering the destruction

of coffee supplies by way of dumping all coffee bags into the sea.

The subjects rebelled, stuffed one of the coffee bags with the sultan

himself, and dumped him into the sea.

Oh, and the downside of six cups a day is, it makes you so damn smart

that your coffeeless and/or one-cup-a-day peers mistake what you think

for utter idiocy, having no frame of reference for your thought

process anymore! ;-)

Elena

[Guest guest]

At six cups of Java a day? I would be flying past those one-cuppers that I

wouldn't even see them.

Joe C.