Is 3 Cups of Coffee a Day Too Much?

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    Veyatziv- Have you tried Green or White Tea? These teas have less cafeine than Coffee and may be what you are looking for in a drink to finish the nightly chores.

    #803360
    squeak
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    Sorry, shindy. I was completely joking – I have no idea “how much” is OK and I would imagine it varies by individual greatly.

    Yank the Aussie: I juice fruits all the time. When I have a cold I squeeze every citrus I can find into a cup and drink it. But that has nothing to do with coffee. And as for Ginseng and Guarana – I don’t care if the molecular structure is exactly the same as coffee – that is the same argument that splenda uses to substitute itself for sugar. If you want to quote me the Rambam on “being shomer the guf” then avoid these products. Coffee is much less of a problem.

    #803361
    smartcookie
    Member

    jewish feminist- nothing to be proud of. Its as if id say that I never ate peppers in my life(i dont like them!!!). Anyway- nothing wrong with a cup of coffee a day, even two.

    #803362
    feivel
    Participant

    tzippi

    why?

    if its not too complicated.

    #803363
    GILA
    Member

    nothing wrong with one cup a day after that you shouldnt drink more its not healthy i say try to cut down a drop

    #803364
    yoshi
    Member

    Just in case anyone missed my post earlier in this thread, I just wanted remind you that my brother had a horrible seizure (while driving a car with his wife and 9 children). He drank around 12 cups of coffee a day. The doctors told him the coffee was one of the factors that gave him the seizure. It caused him to get dangerously high blood pressure. He started out with just 1 cup, which led to 2 cups, then 3 cups, until he reached the 12+ cup mark. His doctor forbade him from drinking even one little cup of coffee ever again. You never know how many cups of coffee can be toxic for you body. Some people’s bodies are more sensitive than others. If you’re going to consume large amounts of coffee, I would suggest buying a home blood pressure monitor (you can get them for cheap or even free now days), and see a doctor more regularly. Also, keep your eyes open to any new symptoms you may be experiencing, the earlier you catch things, the better your chances are for recovery.

    #803365

    “Totally nothing to be proud of, on the contrary you don’t know what you’re missing!”

    I just tried my first cup of coffee yesterday and really liked it. I drank it with lots of milk and sugar, so the flavor wasn’t quite so strong, which made me realize that that’s also an important factor to consider. I don’t know how you all take your coffee; maybe you drink it black, in which case this isn’t relevant. But aside from the nutritional value of the coffee itself, it’s important to monitor the amounts of milk/cream/sugar/half and half/splenda or whatever else you put in your coffee.

    Even having discovered that I like coffee, I would never drink more than one or two small cups a day for fear of addiction.

    Smartcookie, it’s not a fair analogy, because peppers don’t come with any dangers of addiction or other health risks. I happen to love peppers, and I could tell you that you don’t know what you’re missing, but I recognize that people have different tastes. So it was with me and coffee until yesterday.

    #803367
    squeak
    Participant

    Mazel Tov jewishfeminist! Now that you broke this barrier, finally you as a woman are no longer oppressed!

    #803368
    Mayan_Dvash
    Participant

    I’ve read repeatedly that articles and studies about coffee are generally talking 6+ cups per day.

    #803369
    tzippi
    Member

    re feivel: why hyper patients should avoid RAI even though the vast majority of the endocrinologists in the US recommend it:

    It will leave a patient hypO for life, and not all docs modulate it well. (I have undying thanks to Rebbetzin Weisenfeld zt”l for bringing up that point, which made me think it over.)

    The risk of developing thyroid eye disease increases; if already present it will almost definitely be exacerbated.

    Many more reasons. Check out the graves_support@yahoogroup board. The homepage, when I last checked it out is excellent.

    To the olam: does this win the prize for greatest tangent from the original topic 😉

    #803370

    Squeak, that’s not funny.

    Tzippi, this doesn’t come close to winning the prize. My vote goes to the “How to Block the Internet from my Children” thread, but there are plenty of others.

    As a side note, this thread should really be called “*Are* 3 Cups of Coffee a Day Too *Many*” and not “*Is* 3 Cups of Coffee a Day Too *Much*”. (Nitpicking, perhaps, but I’m a grammar enthusiast. Yes, one of those.)

    I had coffee again this morning. I definitely like it, but I will monitor how much I drink.

    #803371
    Joseph
    Participant

    squeak, I did enjoy your comment.

    jf02, Don’t start bad habits. Whats the mitzvah of drinking coffee?

    #803372

    As I said, I’m going to monitor how much coffee I drink so that it doesn’t become an addiction or a “bad habit.” No, there’s no mitzvah to drink coffee. Can you honestly tell me that every action you take in life is a mitzvah? I don’t believe that’s possible.

    #803373
    anon for this
    Participant

    tzippi,

    Rebbetzin Weisenfeld z”l was a distant relative of mine & someone I very much admired, so I for one appreciated that tangent.

    #803374
    noitallmr
    Participant

    People, drink coffee! Its a great start to the day and really wakes you up with that hot golden liquid pouring down your throat! Ahhhh….I’m off for my second one!

    #803375

    i dont like coffee but is it the same w/ soda or a/t that has caffiene? with 3 cups or 6 or whatever

    #803376
    Itzik_s
    Member

    BS”D

    If I need to get up early and stay up late I drink about a quart of double strength coffee with added cocoa powder either before or after shacharis. I try not to do it too often.

    #803377
    moish01
    Member

    itzik, that doesn’t kill your stomach? did it once at like 3am and i was doubled over in pain the entire next day. never tried it again.

    #803378
    Itzik_s
    Member

    BS”D

    It isn’t the healthiest thing to do – let’s put it that way.

    #803379
    squeak
    Participant

    Itzik, for your situation I would recommend using duct tape to hold your eyelids open. Coffee is for enjoyment.

    #803380
    Itzik_s
    Member

    BS”D

    LOL – never found the taste of coffee too enjoyable except as a yogurt or ice cream flavor. for me it is a cheaper and more natural version of Red Bull.

    #803381
    anonymisss
    Participant

    Is red bull kosher?

    ~a~

    #803382
    qwertyuiop
    Member

    anonymiss: i think SOME are, but not all, but don’t rely on me.$

    #803383
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    anonymisss: & don’t try it!!!!!

    #803384
    moish01
    Member

    why not? it’s cool stuff. just one problem: you know you’re in trouble when it stops working. i have a friend that could drink two cans and then go to sleep for the night.

    #803385
    beacon
    Participant

    anonymisss- I think it was kosher, but not anymore… 🙁

    #803386
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    moish01: she’s a girl anonymisss!!! she’ll proboly die from that stuff!!! i’m just sayin………!!!!

    #803387
    anonymisss
    Participant

    I actually used to drink it a while ago and then I heard that it’s not anymore, like beacon said. Devastating news! Red bull is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ~a~

    #803388
    Itzik_s
    Member

    BS”D

    As far as I know, Red Bull was and remains kosher under the supervision of Dayan Elzas of the “Federation” of London. The Red Bull site still has the same information which is that it is kosher supervised but does not mention the agency.

    #803389
    Itzik_s
    Member

    BS”D

    Just to be sure, check Red Bull by calling or writing to Rabbi Eliezer Eidlitz from KosherQuest. He is very reliable and will always go out of his way to get and provide up to date information.

    #803390
    squeak
    Participant

    Itzik, it is my guess that you never tasted coffee. Drinking instant does not count. See the other coffee thread (which is titled for some reason “How much time do you spend on YWN).

    #803392
    YW Moderator-72
    Participant

    time for cup 2. 16 ounces of hot coffee with 2% milk and no sugar. ahhhh :o) usually, I get to it earlier, but I had to clean off the cars and shovel the driveway (maybe I should put this on the 1 chesed a day thread)

    #803393
    flatbush27
    Member

    got to go with the whole milk mod 72.

    #803394
    Itzik_s
    Member

    BS”D

    You are right Squeak. I have not tasted real coffee and I am referring to instant.

    #803395

    mod72,

    if I provide cup number 3 will you shovel my driveway? 🙂

    #803396
    moish01
    Member

    charlie, don’t push it. these guys can’t be bribed i tried a cigar, vodka, and scotch yesterday. no response.

    #803397
    flatbush27
    Member

    how do u shovel rain and slush

    #803398

    yeah, but maybe coffee will work. This is the coffee room you know. 🙂 Have you tried cold hard cash?

    #803399
    moish01
    Member

    …coming right up…

    #803400
    areivimzehlazeh
    Participant

    flatbush- you wait for the city’s snowplows to come a rollin down your street… and permanently bury you, your car and you’re house under the muck

    #803401
    moish01
    Member
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    moish01
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    #803403
    areivimzehlazeh
    Participant

    moish- can I print that bill a million times and use it to buy all that I wish for?

    #803404

    moish u are way to cool 4 me and mod does that mean your a girl? didnt u have to clean off ur car to go to minyan this morning (ok ok i know i should be dan lekaf zechus that it snowed again or u walked

    #803405
    moish01
    Member

    areivim, my dad’s a lawyer… but do what you want

    coke, i know 🙂

    #803406

    wow moish, very impressive!

    #803407
    moish01
    Member

    what – my coffee-making abilities? don’t worry, they don’t go further than the computer screen. couldn’t do that to save my life.

    #803408
    YW Moderator-72
    Participant

    charlie brown, it is too late for cup 3, however, I can be over shortly for cup 4. Do you mind if I wait a little bit to do the shoveling… say… maybe July?

    #803409
    YW Moderator-72
    Participant

    moish01 – truly impressive!

    #803410
    moish01
    Member

    hey no “thank you” for the coffee? i made it special and it’s not even instant.

    oh and did you see my dvar torah last night?

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