Re: Coffee and Breast Cancer

[Guest guest]

Hi Dana,

Any downside to drinking 6 cups of coffee (even when it is drunk black, ie

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

Gubi

[Guest guest]

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]

This is just a query from what I have been told by my naturopath and I would

like to bring it forward and hear some answers about this.

I was told that coffee enemas are very very acidic on the ph scale coming up a

huge minus 24.

My next query is if you have cancer we are trying to alkalize ourselves how

would drinking 4 to 6 cups of coffee per day do this if it is so acidic?

I agree that it might work for woman who dont have breast cancer but for woman

who do, my personal opinion is that it is so acidic that it actually does more

harm than the good it supposedly does.

Obviosly someone out there can measure the acid alkalinity of the substance if

they wish and share with us the results. Anybody got litmus paper?

It would be an interesting test and put the hype of coffee to

rest...........well in my mind anyway

Thanks Odette

Dana Herbert wrote:

Coffee and Breast Cancer

HEALTH NEWS - Coffee may actually protect some women from breast cancer.

A new Canadian study found that women who have a genetic mutation that puts them

at higher risk for breast cancer may be able to decrease that risk by drinking

coffee.

The study examined women from four countries and found women with the mutation

who drank one to three cups of coffee a day reduced their breast cancer risk by

ten percent.

Four to five cups of coffee reduced the risk by 25 percent, and six or more cups

reduced their risk by 69 percent.

Researchers say coffee is a source of phytoestrogens, which may have protective

effects.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=health & id=3782386