I heard that Coffee is now good for you, and now that you know

I would say that having three cups of coffee a day is all right, but then I do not have an addictive personality. I also drink three cups of tea a day and I am not going crazy, so unless someone gives me facts and figures as to how much is too much anything and does not talk about need, then I will listen.

too much of everything is bad for you (even if its a good thing) But it depends how you define too much!! Especially when it is something which is slightly addictive and you need to increase the intake gradually to have the same effect

it has nothing to do with the grants, diabetics who drink black coffee having telling their doctors and anyone who will listen it helps keep their blood sugars low. In fact anything that speeds up the metabolism without adding massive does of glucose into the body does this, researchers are just now deciding to take our word that there maybe something there. We have also long known antioxidants were good things for the body, what most people didn't know was how many of them there are in coffee or how to maximize their effects. The big tip that got that research going was the fact that heavy smoking couples where one got lung cancer were being studied alongside others in their household who didn't. Someone had big light bulb go off after interviewing hundreds of couples and saw often times the one who didn't get cancer were black coffee drinkers while the other was a cream and sugar drinkers or didn't drink it at all.

I thought that coffee was bad for you, so I started to drink tea instead. Now we go out about twice a week and have coffee then. I really should buy some. I came from a big coffee drinking family and I have slow metabolism, and even green tea does not speed it up that much. So I sometimes think that I do need that cup of coffee, at least in the morning. The tea does not have the same effect.

would be hard to drink that much unless ya had the coffee on all the time. and speaking of coffe my coffee pot quit this morning so no coffee for me!

I have had miscarriages, but it could be that I am rather sensitive, you know the one in million that coffee would cause a miscarriage, but it could have been another cause. Anyway I am not a heavy coffee drinker and I think many of those studies ere done on people who drank twenty or more cups of coffee a day. It should have been one on the average coffee drinker.

For Migraines caffeine can help or trigger. It's one of those weird things but most medication for it does have caffeine in it. One reason Excedrin works so great on headaches is because it has caffeine in it. Well I admit I drink mine with non-dairy creamer and sweetener, but I don't use sugar. I don't drink a lot of it though so it's not too much of a problem.

I never knew that about coffee. I grew up when coffee was bad for you. My mother was a tea drinker, my father a coffee drinker and when I became an adult coffee was considered bad, and now it is good. I guess the medical experts are on a campaign to confuse us. Well with me they are doing a very good job.

Many stimulants will do the same thing as caffeine for asthmatics to a point, I have even heard of people using nicotine patches. Part of it is the heat of the coffee making the body warmer dilating blood vessels and increasing blood flow as much as anything I think. As a migraine sufferer I often use coffee to help ease the pain. The big thing in the old surveys is they were measuring coffee they were measuring the effect of the average coffee as it was drank with lots of sugar and added milk, cream or half and half, or worse, non dairy creamers which are nothing but starch.

Well by the time you find out that something is good for you, after you have been told that it is bad, it is too late. I mean look at margarine, it was the opposite of coffee. We were told that margarine was good and then we wondered why many of us in our middle years had bad hearts, blocked arteries, etc. (so far I have been lucky) and flabby tummies (got those) and then they tell us it is the trans fats. So now I suppose lots of people gave up coffee drinking, and lost out on the benefits of that. I still drank coffee, but not as much as I used to. So now when I go to Tim Hortons, I will make sure I order a large cup.

I have started to just use butter, but it is expensive. I just hope I will be able to reverse the damage. Maybe I will no longer have that bulge below my belly button. And I will be able to lose my tummy fat. At least my heart is still good, but with all that damage we did by following false rules, it is a wonder any of us are alive.

You're so right about margarine. I remember how my mom got on the kick about how horrible butter was for us and we should only eat margarine and then like you said, here we are, those who gave up butter are the ones with the heart problems. My rule is moderation is the key. Don't deny yourself everything you like because someone says it's bad for you but don't go overboard with it either. That way we'll at least be halfway "safe". Annie

Starbucks is way too strong for me, but if I have to stay awake, that is where I will go. I like it medium roast. The caffeine in regular coffee does not affect me that much.

It also depends what kind of coffee... I mean I'm not really addicted to just any coffee, I find that I really enjoy starbucks coffee!! Especially because I worked there for one year (I didn't like coffee before that) I don't really like instant coffees... But I guess if you need your dose of caffeine anything is good... :)

I usually have two or three drinks of coffee or tea a day, and the rest is herb tea. Usually we do not drink that much coffee unless we go out. I do not have any trouble getting nervous with too much coffee.

I can drink coffee either black or with cream. It depends on whether it is quite weak or quite strong or whether it is made well. I do not like that much sugar in it, although I sometimes have coffee cream or those flavored coffees, but not that often. So I am sort of neutrals as far as bad or good effects of coffee drinking is.

Most of the studies that say it is bad for you if you look aren't done with black coffee they are done with coffee plus pollution, I mean creamer and sugar, which negate the positive effects you could be enjoying from it.

I drink coffee once a day, and it has not done me any harm. It is just that I heard of the good effects, after being told not to drink it because of its bad effects, so if I needed those good results like losing weight easier, I never got them. Seems these scientific studies do not consider the harm done by following their wrong decisions. I think they overdo themselves and do not tell the people the specifics. Coffee has never made me nervous, I have never stayed awake that night, and I did hear it is not good to drink that much during pregnancy, but since I did not know when I was pregnant because I may have not known if I was pregnant or not, I never got the good effects when I was not pregnant.

I do not have enough to buy fresh coffee beans, and I broke my last two expresso cups, but I will get another one. Have to put the expresso coffee maker far enough back so I don't knock it with my elbow.

I can drink about four cups of coffee a day with no bad effect. And when I go to Tim Horton's it depends since I will have it with cream or with milk. The cream is not bad because it is real cream and not the cream substitute. I also use butter rather than margarine at home since it was the trans fat in the artificial produced margarine that helped contribute to my weight gain in my tummy area. I do not take sugar in coffee either. I also drink a lot of water, but diabetes runs in my family and I heard that it helps protect me from that.

I say four cups of coffee a day is plenty. That would mean one at each meal. And if coffee helps people not get diabetes and protects against certain types of cancer, then maybe they should tell how much is needed. Because if two cups of coffee is not enough, then those where diabetes runs in their family should drink more and it seems it is the black coffee, not the one with cream in it.

I have four cups of coffee a day at the most, but now the only time we have coffee is when we are out and usually at Tim Hortons, but since diabetes runs in both our families, maybe we should drink more coffee.

I drink both coffee and tea, but I prefer green tea rather than the regular tea. In fact, Orange Pekoe gives me a headache. Coffee does not bother me and I would have to drink a whole lot of coffee to keep me awake. Oh and I need to speed up my metabolism not slow it down. And since both coffee and green tea contain caffeine, I can drink both with no problems. Half my family were tea drinkers, the other half coffee drinkers.

Yes drinking water keeps you alive, not drinking water reduces our carbon footprint. Stop drinking water and you die. Now I see there is a method in their madness.

I am not that great of a coffee drinker, but I used to make a pot but that was when our sons were at home, but now with just the two of us, we hardly make coffee, but we do go to Tim Horton's twice a week. And when we do we have the large mug of coffee. I wish they had not said coffee was bad for you, or I would have keep that big pot of coffee even after our sons left.

I drink coffee and it has not hurt me. Mind you, I drink two cups a day at the most, so I am all right.

I got pregnant so many times, and they all ended in miscarriages before the second month so I would have had to stop drinking coffee forever. Imagine going twenty five years without coffee. How can anyone stand it for that long? As for my favorite coffee it is either Maxwell House at home and Tim Horton's when we are out. I also love flavored coffee, but just when there is something special going on.