Comments on: Coffee and Balinese http://blog.baliwww.com/people-community/1094/ Share Bali Indonesia experience with the rest of readers and exchange information, write to our blog instantly NOW!!! Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Steven Jack http://blog.baliwww.com/people-community/1094/#comment-73018 Steven Jack Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:35:06 +0000 http://blog.baliwww.com/people-community/1094/#comment-73018 Most interesting post.Balinese style of coffee is what westerner call black coffee and surely not for the faint of heart. http://www.blossomingleaf.com/ Most interesting post.Balinese style of coffee is what westerner call black coffee and surely not for the faint of heart.
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]]> By: Sue Richards http://blog.baliwww.com/people-community/1094/#comment-65222 Sue Richards Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:14:09 +0000 http://blog.baliwww.com/people-community/1094/#comment-65222 Coffee puts the system under the strain of metabolizing a deadly acid-forming drug, depositing its insoluble cellulose, which cements the wall of the liver, causing this vital organ to swell to twice its proper size. In addition, coffee is heavily sprayed. (Ninety-two pesticides are applied to its leaves.) Diuretic properties of caffeine cause potassium and other minerals to be flushed from the body. All this fear went away when I quit, and it was a book that inspired me to do it called The Truth About Caffeine by Marina Kushner. There are five things I liked about this book: 1) It details--thoroughly--the ways in which caffeine may damage your health. 2) It reveals the damage that coffee does to the environment. Specifically, coffee was once grown in the shade, so that trees were left in place. Then sun coffee was introduced, allowing greater yields but contributing to the destruction of rain forests. I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else. 3) It explains how best to go off coffee. This is important. If you try cold turkey, as most people probably do, the withdrawal symptoms will likely drive you right back to coffee. 4) Helped me find a great resource for the latest studies at CaffeineAwareness.org 5) Also, if you drink decaf you won’t want to miss this special free report on the dangers of decaf available at www.soyfee.com Coffee puts the system under the strain of metabolizing a deadly acid-forming drug, depositing its insoluble cellulose, which cements the wall of the liver, causing this vital organ to swell to twice its proper size. In addition, coffee is heavily sprayed. (Ninety-two pesticides are applied to its leaves.) Diuretic properties of caffeine cause potassium and other minerals to be flushed from the body.

All this fear went away when I quit, and it was a book that inspired me to do it called The Truth About Caffeine by Marina Kushner. There are five things I liked about this book:

1) It details–thoroughly–the ways in which caffeine may damage your health.

2) It reveals the damage that coffee does to the environment. Specifically, coffee was once grown in the shade, so that trees were left in place. Then sun coffee was introduced, allowing greater yields but contributing to the destruction of rain forests. I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere else.

3) It explains how best to go off coffee. This is important. If you try cold turkey, as most people probably do, the withdrawal symptoms will likely drive you right back to coffee.

4) Helped me find a great resource for the latest studies at CaffeineAwareness.org

5) Also, if you drink decaf you won’t want to miss this special free report on the dangers of decaf available at http://www.soyfee.com

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