[ RadSafe ] Coffee and Cholesterol (off topic for Radsafe!)

[Doug Aitken]

Peter: 
Your mother's doctor may be right. But only if your mother was drinking very
large quantities of espresso or French press!
http://cholesterol.about.com/od/cholesterolloweringfoods/a/coffee.htm

I know this is off-topic for Radsafe (apologies to the sensitive!), but I
guess there are quite a few of us consuming quantities of coffee (containing
a whole lot of radioactivity: more hazardous than DU??) so in the interests
of the overall health of all of us, this is a noble discussion!

And the article reinforces the idea that the poison is in the dose....

Regards
Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandgren, Peter [mailto:Peter.Sandgren at po.state.ct.us] 
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 8:12 AM
To: Doug Aitken
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] teratogenesis - look it up

You've caught my interest . . . espresso has less caffeine but more
oils?  My mother in law had high cholesterol levels and was told to stop
drinking coffee because of the oils.(!)
BTW I have an espresso machine, but it's not a gold-plated professional
job.

Peter Sandgren
Connecticut Department of 
Emergency Management & Homeland Security
Radiological Emergency Planning Division
GIS Coordinator
25 Sigourney St., Hartford, CT 06106
(860) 256-0875
fax (860) 256-0819
 

The inevitable result of any golf lesson is the instant elimination of
the one critical unconscious motion that allowed you to compensate for
all of your many other errors.
Anonymous golf wisdom.

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Doug Aitken
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 4:31 PM
To: garyi at trinityphysics.com; 'radsafelist'; 'Danny K McClung'
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] teratogenesis - look it up

Gary:
You are going to die!

But then, aren't we all?
<G>

PS: if you are drinking drip/percolator coffee (especially that stuff
that
sits on a heating ring for a few hours...) I have no doubt that it
tastes
foul! The only way to drink coffee is from an expresso machine. And if
the
hit of a small expresso is too much, make an "americano" by just letting
the
machine run until you have a mug> the flavor will be Way better than any
drip coffee and actually (because of the fast, hot passage of the fluid
through the coffee grounds extracting the oils but less of the caffeine)
has
less caffeine.......

As for diet drinks - the less said, the better. Nasty stuff!

Regards
Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf
Of garyi at trinityphysics.com
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 3:15 PM
To: radsafelist; Danny K McClung
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] teratogenesis - look it up

I drink black, real, non-decaf.  It tastes lousy, but if it tasted great
I
would probably go thru 2 
or 3 pots a day.  When I'm with my wife, we have a little coffee with
our
creamer.  I think 
someone on Radsafe has a talk/presentation that goes into the >100
chemicals
that make up 
coffee, and the large fraction of them that are proven carcinogens, but
still seem to enhance 
the health of people drinking coffee.

I'm also a hardcore diet coke drinker.  Of the two, DC scares me more
than
DU, since the 
typical DC intake is probably about 10^10 higher than the typical DU
intake.
The dose makes 
the poison.  :)

-Gary Isenhower



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On 30 May 2008 at 15:32, Danny K McClung wrote:

OK, Gary, is it real or de-caf?

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