On Jan 5, 2008 12:35 AM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup. Turns out, if I drink a couple of caffeinated sodas today, tomorrow > I will be mean. (Some might append an "-er", but don't pay attention to > them.) Then the headaches will start.
I always loved caffeine and I seem to hear nothing but good reports about the health effects of coffee. So I just continued the 3-cup-a-day habit I developed in the Navy. But I have started to notice that there are incidental downsides. The clincher for me was the G.I. Diet. It's an eating plan modelled similar to the way a diabetic should eat. The idea is you eat only certain foods, but you can eat as much as you want. The trick being that all the foods are "low G.I.", meaning they metabolize slowly, and don't spike your blood sugar, leaving you craving another blood sugar fix. Caffeinated coffee, in this scheme, actually makes you hungry and is thus bad. I only have a tiny bit of my-world data so far. I'd like to know if that's true, but like I said, I'd been weaning myself off of coffee for a while. (And I don't like soda anyway.) > As a kid, I was warned about getting addicted to all those evil drugs; > nobody ever pointed out that caffeine was an addictive drug as well. My adults always told me that coffee would "stunt" my growth. I believed them, and it served the purpose of making me not drink coffee until I was fully grown and... in the Navy. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
