Coffee and Tea
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Caffeine affects everyone differently. If you're a regular drinker then just quitting would probably hurt more than it helped anyway <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /> The diuretic effect is usually cancelled out by the water/milk you put in it in my experience. But it will still cause high blood pressure and anxiety if you're drinking too much. Moderation is the key, but a litre a day? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' /> Hope you're not having it too strong. Go onto google - for every article you get citing the positive effects of caffeine, you'll get at least one (if not the same one) putting up the cons as well.<br />
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I'm forcing myself off coffee as I need sugar with it and the post-insulin crash at work shits me. -
Like most barristers, I love coffee, and damn near live on it. I'll usually have about four double espressi under the belt by noon during term time. Coffee - proper, fresh, strong black coffee, which is thankfully pretty universal in Cork, a city where it's got damned hard to get bad coffee - is one of the joys of my life.<br />
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Hence, every year, I give it up for Lent. All caffeine; this includes chocolate, coffee, tea, diet Coke, green tea, the lot. What you'll get in the first couple of days is, quite frequently, headaches. They go. But, and this is the important thing, after six weeks without coffee, that first double espresso hit on Easter Sunday morning (usually a caffe corretto for me, as I give up drink for Lent as well) - it's a fair-sized tribute to Ms. Thomond when I say it's [i]almost[/i] better than sex. :shifty: :happy:<br />
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I've given up sugar with it, which I find has helped matters, as it reduces the vague need for more sugar. <br />
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Interestingly, I do find that it makes me more aggressive; I can feel the difference on my feet when I'm caffeined-up and when I'm not, as I'll be sharper and more likely to go for the throat straight away when I've coffee aboard in the requisite amounts. Makes me wonder if a ProPlus before a match would have any effect. :nta -
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No Hooroo - I have not heard of this article. Just about everything else on the web says "Diuretic", "addictive" and "bad in excess". <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' />
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No Hooroo - I have not heard of this article. Just about everything else on the web says "Diuretic", "addictive" and "bad in excess". <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' /><br />
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Well it is apparantly the latest research. so who knows -
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That's why I drink Bundy rum :whistle:<br />
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Enjoyed a lovely drinking session at the Bunderburg distillery years back. Cant remember the details but still have the Tshirt. I had to buy the Tshirt because I dropped a glass of rum on it while wandering through the gift shop. -
And the liquer is nice too RB <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' />