Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for February 05, 2011

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    zero  almost 14 years ago

    Help? as in possibly a “partner?”

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    thad.humphries  almost 14 years ago

    A UCLA study reports, “the greater the consumption of coffee, the lesser the risk of diabetes.” (http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/why-coffee-protects-against-diabetes-190743.aspx)

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    cdward  almost 14 years ago

    ^I should be safe! Curiously, my mom, who has never drunk coffee, has diabetes…

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    rayannina  almost 14 years ago

    When even Brewster can see that you need help …

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    JudyCuddy  almost 14 years ago

    Coffee/diabetes? Interesting. Have to check that out. Thanks Thad.

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    lewisbower  almost 14 years ago

    I believe there should be a law against these caffeine pushers like DOC TOON freely roaming the Galaxy, enslaving naive beings like myself.

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    MisngNOLA  almost 14 years ago

    But the pusher is a monster…

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    Motivemagus  almost 14 years ago

    I’m a Diet Coke man, myself (Coke Light when in Europe - different and better sweetener), and it amazes me how often someone comes up to me and says “that stuff isn’t good for you, you know” – while holding a giant Starbucks coffee. Some years ago the Wall Street Journal had an article on the relative caffeine of different coffees and drinks, and Starbucks coffee (being a dark roast) typically had twice the caffeine of a doughnut shop coffee, enough to trigger a higher addiction effect. And regular coffee has twice the caffeine of a typical Coke. And now it’s even bigger…

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    stuart  almost 14 years ago

    @lakesnake, a followup to the coffee/diabetes study showed that decaf had the same effect. It is not the caffeine that protects the pancreas, but something in the rest of the coffee bean. However, caffeine (in moderation) has been shown to protect against parkinsons.

    Caffeine is generally beneficial up to a “toxic dose”, and increasingly toxic above that up to the lethal dose. The “toxic dose” for a 200lb person is ~400mg caffeine / day, and the lethal dose is 10g. So limit yourself to the equivalent of less than 4 cups coffee per day, and you are good.

    Note, the 10g lethal dose is impossible to hit with coffee (drink 100 cups at one sitting?), but is regularly done with “No Doze” and other refined caffeine products.

    Note, the toxic dose can vary with the individual. If you have any kind of withdrawal symptoms (e.g. headache) when you stop your caffeine intake, you are at or above your personal toxic dose. I drink no caffeine on Sunday to make sure I have no withdrawal. I prefer tea to coffee, which has its own benefits, but I would drink more coffee if I could learn to like the taste.

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    Trebor39  almost 14 years ago

    Starbucks helps us accomplish more by making us sleep less.

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 14 years ago

    Pam reminds me of a comic-book character called Too Much Coffee Man.

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    fredusmc75  almost 14 years ago

    Night-Gaunt49: “Even so too much caffeine can addict you as bad as cocaine”.

    Haven’t heard that in my 57 years. Please validate your statement with some data to back it up.

    As to the rest almost anything is, or has been illegal at one time/place or another in human history. Usually by people who are ignorant.

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