Coffee is a "Health Drink" 540
WoodenRobot writes "Not that it would stop an Italian or a techie from drinking the stuff, but Chiara Trombetti, of the Humanitas Gavazzeni institute of Bergamo has reported that coffee, especially espresso, is good for you and provides numerous health benefits. All the more reason to tuck into a cup o' Joe - but no more than 3 or 4 cups a day."
Cheers (Score:3, Funny)
Great Health (Score:5, Funny)
I'm shooting for 10 cups a day, maybe I can be the first self propelled man into space.
#1 Health benefit (Score:5, Funny)
Just had my first double. Thanks, Krups!
Well.. (Score:5, Funny)
Since it's their health that's in jeopardy if I dont get my coffee.
Oh no! (Score:3, Funny)
Ok - then what about ... (Score:5, Funny)
Mmmm.... Coffee... (Score:1, Funny)
Shpoiled little kidsh (Score:4, Funny)
When I wash their age, I wash in shcool from sheven pm the night before to nine pm every shingle day! And I tell you what, shonny, I liked it and didn't need no shtinkin' coffee, no siree! And we didn't have no shtinkin' 24-hour time neither!
Coffee is food (Score:5, Funny)
I eat my coffee with a fork.
I agree, but define healthy differently. (Score:5, Funny)
yeah, yeah... (Score:3, Funny)
Coffee, beer, what's next? (Score:3, Funny)
3 or 4 a day?!! (Score:3, Funny)
I usually stop at 3 pots a day myself.
Wait a minute, what's this? CUPS! CUPS!!
Shit! I thought they said POTS!
Damn rtfa stuff again...
Re:Coffee is boring (Score:1, Funny)
Just the smell of coffee gets me goin' (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Prejudiced Generalization (Score:1, Funny)
good journalism on slashdot? you must be new here
As wine also features ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Consider this (Score:2, Funny)
Coffee != hot water (Score:5, Funny)
So if you want to have the same results in the US, you can easily drink 3 times the amount mentioned in the Italian report.
Re:Alzheimer's disease (Score:5, Funny)
Since I'm portuguese I drink about 5/6 coffees ("expressos", the only real coffee
Re:Consider this (Score:3, Funny)
Re:yeah, yeah... (Score:3, Funny)
(I swear, it's a scientific diet! Ignore the giant marketing machine that's profiting from it.)
YOU BET ITS A HEALTH DRINK (Score:3, Funny)
Scientists Declare 'Nothing Bad For You' (Score:5, Funny)
In an unprecedented move today, an international body of scientists declared in a press conference the findings of their latest array of studies. The scientists surprisingly came to a conclusion that they had finally managed to not find anything that is in any way detrimental to your health and stated that people should just live the way they like and not care about potential consequences to their health.
The results of the study have raised some rare disagreements amongst the community of scientists, but the consensus seems to be that all our health and nutrition related problems are over. The board of directors at the tobacco-giant Philip Morris, as well as CEOs of multinational food and beverage corporations such as Pepsi and McDonalds heralded the results as groundbreaking.
When interviewed after the press conference, one of the scientists involved in the study revealed that he had some misgivings about drawing such near-sighted and overtly optimistic conclusions, but also stressed that the benefits of letting people finally do what the fuck they want and slowly kill themselves in the process were much preferred to the endless bickering and whining about whether something is good for you or not. The scientists concluded his statement by saying that: "Every one of us has to leave this world at some point or other", but that "the fat pig over there munching Cheetos is gonna be one of the first ones to go".
Several other scientists were quoted as not giving a fuck about it either.
Re:Coffee is boring (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great Health (Score:2, Funny)
thanks.
-AC
Re:Just reading your post is allowing me to (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just the smell of coffee gets me goin' (Score:5, Funny)
Coffee and espresso is fricken great! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm typing this on my treadmill right now while playing my guitar and espresso and coffee and espresso makes this happennnnning for meeeeee.
It givesss me so mucch time to work on thingz tooo since I don't have to worrry about sleeep anymore. I haven't slept since 1983 and looke at me! Alert! Perceptive! Razor sharp!
Have to go, working on my cure for cancer and have a roast in the oven while painting a self-portrait!
Irony (Score:1, Funny)
And in related news... (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously folks, can the news possibly get any better for us Nerds?
Caffeine itself? (Score:2, Funny)
Anyway, it's nice to see that coffee is good for your liver. Even more reason that it's the perfect hangover fix -- takes away the headache AND fixes the damage you did to your liver the previous night... :)
Re:As a techie who doesn't drink it... (Score:3, Funny)
As a gambling, smoking caffeine addict, I take offense to your (twitch) characterization of me as (tic) slave to my (cough) bad habits.
Obligatory geek/Dune/coffee quote (Score:3, Funny)
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning,
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Re:Coffee is boring (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Quoth the article: (Score:3, Funny)
Don't forget your health insurance card. FYI, higher copay applies to all filled donuts.
Re:Coffee and espresso is fricken great! (Score:3, Funny)
This Coffee cup holds an entire pot of coffee and keeps it warm all day long. Also it has a big warning on it NOT TO DRINK FROM IT. But I do anyways. All it looks like is a giant coffee cup. For sure it would be a good gift for the coffee drinkers alike.
Re:Just reading your post is allowing me to (Score:2, Funny)
Excellent (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just reading your post is allowing me to (Score:1, Funny)
Immortality (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just the smell of coffee gets me goin' (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Coffee is boring (Score:3, Funny)
Such places *do* tend to be full of obnoxious, pretentious patrons, but the attraction of such places is that the coffee that they sell is supposed to be of very high quality, freshly roasted and with careful attention paid to serving. It's not always the case though, I'll admit.
Look at me, mama! I'm a college boy now! I drink 'expresso' with the girlies! w00t!
Heh. If *you* were a college boy, you'd know that the stuff was actually called 'espresso'. And don't knock it. He'll *still* be fucking those fine, perfumed college-educated girls when Mrs. Lambent is too worn out to give you any, because of her long day tendering the hogs.
If you want REALLY good coffee, get in your car
Don't talk crap. When did you ever find a dirty dingy truck stop that sold single estate arabicas and fine espresso blends that were roasted within the last few days and ground immediately before serving?
Of course, if your idea of 'doing it right' is serving up commercial swill that's grown in Vietnam and sold at $2 per ton to multinational companies, then you're absolutely correct. You'll find plenty of that in dingy truck stops.
Personally, I'd rather drink raw sewage than that crap, but if that's your favoured drink -- enjoy.
Perhaps the old slapper serving up the stuff may even become the future Mrs. Lambent?
JUST 3 or 4 cups?!?!?!? (Score:2, Funny)
Italian Science (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cheers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cheers (Score:3, Funny)
same thing with pot - we have to stop blaming the whole plant for the buds we smoke.
(this is a joke for those who don't understand a sad attempt at humour...joke made because US has a problem with naturally grown items, that, like the coca leaf, don't do much harm)