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Myths About Coffee: America’s #1 Drink
The New York Times recently took a look at America’s #1 beverage, coffee, and the ingredient that makes people drink, caffeine, the most widely used drug. The article has a lot of facts but here were the ones that stood out for me:
- There’s a list of how many milligrams of caffeine is present in average beverages. 8 oz. of decaf coffee or tea has about 2 mgs, a 12 oz. Diet Coke has 35 mgs, 1 tablet of NoDoz Maximum Strength has 200 mgs, and a 16 oz. Starbucks Coffee Grand has 330 mgs!
- Caffeinated drinks are diuretics but it takes more than 575 mgs of the good stuff to make it a diuretic, but since to reach that you’ll have had to had two 16 oz. cups of Starbucks Coffee… chances are you would’ve needed to hit the restroom anyway.
- Many of the medical danger links with caffeine were recently refuted including heart disease, hypertension, and pancreatic cancer.
- Caffeine won’t help you lose weight. It will speed up metabolism but there’s no long term effect, 100 mgs will burn an extra 75-100 calories a day (better than nothing!).
Sorting Out Coffee’s Contradictions [New York Times]
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