Comments on: Caffeine’s Contradictions http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/08/19/caffeines-contradictions/ Less diet, more brain Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: monica http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/08/19/caffeines-contradictions/#comment-1079 monica Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:29:42 +0000 http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/08/19/caffeines-contradictions/#comment-1079 Thank you for your encouragement, Evita. I will definitely stick with it for now. You make a good point about the drawbacks to caffeine. I need to post about the POSITIVE aspects of life without caffeine. I'll do that as soon as I know them for myself. =) Thank you for your encouragement, Evita. I will definitely stick with it for now. You make a good point about the drawbacks to caffeine. I need to post about the POSITIVE aspects of life without caffeine. I’ll do that as soon as I know them for myself. =)

]]> By: Evita http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/08/19/caffeines-contradictions/#comment-1077 Evita Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:17:40 +0000 http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/08/19/caffeines-contradictions/#comment-1077 Monica how can I motivate you to continue without the coffee. You are making the RIGHT decision from so many angles. Just put up with the nasty symptoms a bit more and you will be as good as new. You just need your body (brain specifically) to readjust to life without caffeine. Whenever we put a drug into the system the brain tries to fight it at first and then readjusts as if this was always part of it, so when a drug is stopped, you got it...the brain has to sort of re-train itself. Now as for the good studies, there are some items out there, coffee included that yes, may have 2 even 5 benefits and then has 10, 20 or more drawbacks. Ah, but the coffee companies who sponsor most of these studies will naturally not focus on these and even when some independents write about these, naturally they are saying what will in the end be good for the economy not one's health. Bottom line if you want great health, coffee has no place there, never mind even that - it just does not feel good to be "addicted" or enslaved to anything. So keep up the great work, you will see it will only get easier and then you will feel better than ever! Monica how can I motivate you to continue without the coffee. You are making the RIGHT decision from so many angles. Just put up with the nasty symptoms a bit more and you will be as good as new. You just need your body (brain specifically) to readjust to life without caffeine. Whenever we put a drug into the system the brain tries to fight it at first and then readjusts as if this was always part of it, so when a drug is stopped, you got it…the brain has to sort of re-train itself.

Now as for the good studies, there are some items out there, coffee included that yes, may have 2 even 5 benefits and then has 10, 20 or more drawbacks. Ah, but the coffee companies who sponsor most of these studies will naturally not focus on these and even when some independents write about these, naturally they are saying what will in the end be good for the economy not one’s health.

Bottom line if you want great health, coffee has no place there, never mind even that - it just does not feel good to be “addicted” or enslaved to anything.

So keep up the great work, you will see it will only get easier and then you will feel better than ever!

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