People who know me are
aware I enjoy drinking coffee. My daily routine consists of getting
out of bed, stumbling as I make my way to the kitchen. At this time,
my wife knows I will be unable to engage in any form of coherent
language until I've had my coffee. She hands me a cup of coffee and
hopes for the best. After the first drink of it, I'm able to make
words she can understand. By the time I'm almost done with my first
cup of morning coffee, I'm making complete sentences and am able to
engage in actual conversation. This is simply our morning ritual.
I will also drink
coffee during the day. I usually stop around noon. It appears there
is a breed of coffee drinkers that consume java at levels I can only
imagine. I suppose these serious consumers of coffee have some
health concerns about their consumption of it. Research has shown
people can drink up to 25 cups of coffee in a day and not worry about
it making their arteries stiff. If I drank that much coffee in a
day, I would be worried about more than my arteries. I'd be
concerned about spending so much time in the bathroom and only being
able to close my eyes every 36 hours. That is a lot of coffee.
Below are excerpts from
the story with my valuable insights in italics.
Good news coffee lovers:
you can still drink up to 25 cups in a day without worrying about
stiffer arteries, a new study finds. Not that most people drink
anywhere near that much — even the biggest coffee junkies out of
the 8,412 British adults who were studied drank about five
cups on average daily.
What was the purpose of
this study? Is it sponsored by coffee manufacturers and sellers? Is
this a way to tell people who drink five cups a day it is time to
bump up their coffee drinking game? Will this lead to people who
drink 25 cups of coffee a day being in advertisements saying how they
have no worries about stiffer arteries? Maybe coffee shops will
start offering discounts to people who have 25 cups a day and healthy
arteries. I believe to drink 25 cups of coffee a day you would need
to have it with each meal, between meals, while exercising and maybe
consume coffee using an intravenous drip while you take a nap and
sleep. Consuming this much coffee would require a serious
commitment.
Researchers from Queen
Mary University of London say those earlier studies used much smaller
sample sizes, leading them to question the results and put them up
against a much larger group of participants.
I imagine trying to
find a person who drinks 25 cups of coffee every day is difficult.
These are people who probably sleep a total of eight hours a week.
They would be the ones shaking all the time as they made repeated
trips to and from the bathroom. I'm sure they would be lousy
subjects for research because they would have to be in motion and
struggle to speak slowly.
“I understand you
drink 25 cups of coffee a day. Would you like to be part of our
research project?”
“Sorry, I have to go
to the bathroom.”
“Now that you're
back, have you decided if you want to be part of our research
project?”
“Sorry, I have to get
more coffee.”
“Could you stay still
and answer my question about being part of our research project?”
“Sorry, after I go to
the bathroom again, I'm going to run around the block a few times.
I've not slept in three days but I'm feeling great.”
“You need to stop and
let me know if you want to participate in our research project.”
“Sorry, I've got to
get some more coffee. Could you talk to me after I run around the
block a few more times and go to the bathroom?”
“Why don't you stop
drinking so much coffee?”
“Then I'd be just a person without stiff arteries who nobody wants for their research
project.”
“Oh.”
Though people who drank
more than 25 cups of coffee daily were excluded from the study, the
authors found that those who drank up to this amount were no more
likely to suffer from stiffening of the arteries compared
to those who drank less than a cup a day.
Can you imagine going
to participate in a research study about drinking coffee and being
excluded because you drank too much coffee? That is like doing a
study on alcoholics and telling a person they're excluded from the
study because they drink too much.
“I'm willing to
participate in your study.”
“How much coffee do
you drink each day?”
“I have about 26 cups
of coffee each day.”
“Sorry, we only need
people who drink 25 cups of coffee a day or less.”
“Why is the cut off
point 25 cups? How did you determine this amount of coffee
consumption?”
“Because, ah, we're
researchers who have determined people who drink up to 25 cups of
coffee a day don't suffer any more stiffening of the arteries than
those who drink a single cup of coffee a day.”
“What about those of
us who drink 26 cups of coffee a day? What will consuming one more
cup of coffee a day do to our arteries? I mean, if you're truly
concerned about public health wouldn't you want to know how an
additional cup of coffee affects my arteries? We have a right to
know.”
“You get us the
research funds, and we'll see what the additional cup of coffee a day
does to your arteries.”
“Hey, this is
prejudicial. You are excluding those of us who drink 26 cups of
coffee a day for no reason other than your preconceived stereotypical
beliefs of those of us who drink 26 cups of coffee a day. You are
nothing more than 26 cups of coffee a day phobic. I may file a civil
rights lawsuit.”
“Will you leave us
alone if we give you free coffee for a week?”
“It's a deal.”
Below is a link to the
article.
https://www.studyfinds.org/drinking-25-cups-coffee-stiffness-arteries/
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