Diana Herrington turned a debilitating health crisis into a passion for helping others with healthy, sugar-free, gluten-free, eating and cooking. After testing and researching every possible healthy therapy on her delicate system she has developed simple, powerful principles which she shares in her recent book Eating Green and Lean, and as host to Care2 groups: Healthy Living Network and Healthy Cooking. She is the head chef at Real Food for Life, where she shares recipes and tips.
Written by Randy Fritz, co-creator with Diana Herrington at Real Food for Life
Coffee is for Bugs not Your Body!
Caffeine is a natural insecticide that plants have been using to protect themselves from insects for thousands of years!That caffeine in your steaming cup of coffee has been put to much better use in driving away or killing insects in your backyard, rather than getting you going in the morning.
7 Reasons to Cut Down on Your Coffee or Caffeine Consumption
1. Caffeine was developed as a poison.Over millions of years, plants have developed various powerful compounds to stop insects from stripping away every bit of greenery from the planet. Many plants are obviously poisonous or extremely inedible to protect themselves. Other examples of slightly toxic substances include oxalic acid in leafy greens and capsaicin in chili peppers. When you consider the fact that we consume 12,000 tons of caffeine a year, the amounts in these other foods are miniscule in comparison. A good rule of thumb for health is to avoid or reduce poisons.
2. Caffeine exhausts the adrenals.
Whereas a dose of caffeine in a small insect may stun or even kill it, in humans it just gives us a little “buzz.” This stimulation is what many people depend on to get themselves going with their morning coffee, but it is short lived.Since it really is just stimulation, an excitement of the nervous and glandular system, it’s not producing any long term energy; and as soon as that little high wears off, you are reaching for another shot. Do this enough times and your nervous and glandular system, particularly the adrenal gland, is exhausted. You have to keep increasing the “dose” to have energy and eventually nothing works and you crash.
3. Caffeine is addictive.
The fact that you can get caffeine withdrawal symptoms if you stop is an obvious symptom of addiction. Most people don’t want to be addicted to anything!You probably think you don’t drink enough to be addicted, but research shows you probably already are. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine showed that low to moderate caffeine intake (as little as one small cup of coffee per day) can quickly produce withdrawal symptoms.
4. Caffeine often comes with sugar and other health hazards.
Raw coffee beans by themselves don’t taste good, so sweeteners are usually added. This is usually white sugar or some artificial chemical that tastes sweet.Some people consider white sugar to also be a chemical poison. To read all about the dangers of sugar and to how to stop your sugar craving, see: 7 Tips to Stop Sugar CravingsAt the very least, sugar is definitely a dumb carb and not a smart carb. Other than the simple sugars, it has no micronutrients like vitamins or minerals to help your body. Also it has a high glycemic index so it goes quickly into the system, creating insulin spikes and insulin resistance, which eventually leads to weight gain.
5. Caffeine toxicity has been linked to, well, almost everything.
The above four points are pretty well known. Caffeine toxicity, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to be as commonly discussed. If you do a medical search for “caffeine toxicity” on Google Scholar, you get 44,000 entries.Caffeine has been associated with studies in a lot of conditions including:
- irregular heartbeat
- insomnia
- psychosis
- anorexia
- sleeplessness
- headaches
- nervousness
- irritability
- depression
- bedwetting
- birth defects in rodents
6. Caffeine is used as an insecticide.
Back to my original point. Over 20 years ago James Nathanson, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, reported in Science magazine of this important function of caffeine. The study determined that caffeine combined with other insecticides increases their killing power. In one test, a small dose of caffeine increased known pesticides potency by 10 times. Caffeine appears to produce the destructive effect by suppressing certain enzymes in the insects’ nervous systems. In man, caffeine is now classified by many scientists as a neurotoxin. That means it is definitely not “good” for your nerves.
Do you think that maybe you have other pesticides in your system that caffeine could react with?
7. Coffee cups destroy the environment.
The world drinks 400 billion coffees a year. We toss away 100 million cups a year which, if we are careful with our trash, ends up in landfills.The paper in landfills, like all organic matter, decomposes without oxygen, and thus produces methane which has 23 times the heat trapping power of CO2.The plastic coating of the paper and the polystyrene coffee cup lid, after its minutes-long use, will continue to exist for hundreds of years. Plastic coffee cup lids contain the toxic substances styrene and benzene, which have been documented as suspected carcinogens and neurotoxins. That’s also bad!
You Could Choose Worse!
If you are going to choose a drug, caffeine is certainly better than alcohol, nicotine, cocaine or narcotics. Narcotics used to be readily available in the drugstore but new understanding has caused their restriction, so most people have moved into caffeine and alcohol. (Read: 4 Dangerous Drugs Doctors Gave Your Grandparents)Coffee does some have specific uses: They would tend to be medicinal. Caffeine, for example, is added to many cold and pain medications to increase their speed and potency. This decreases overall medicine use.Coffee also has some great social benefits. The coffee shops around the world seem to fulfill a universal urge to come together to talk and eat and drink. In the crazy world we live in, coffee shops are often a tiny oasis of comfort and calm. That being said, perhaps we could be drinking alternate beverages with less caffeine.
You Could Choose Better: 5 Caffeine Alternatives
1. Green TeaGreen tea has one-half to one-sixth the caffeine of regular brewed coffee. It has about half the caffeine as a Coke or Pepsi. Some specialty green teas have even less caffeine than this.What green tea has more of is all kinds of health benefits, including prevention in cancer and heart disease. Maybe this is why green tea is the second most popular beverage in the world (after water) and the most popular health beverage. Green tea is considered a critical element in the development of the British middle class, women’s liberation, girl guides, charity organizations, and the American Revolution. Read more at Green Tea: The Powerfood That Rules the World
2. Herbal BeveragesOther than in bars, it is now socially acceptable to drink herbal drinks in public! They are often called “herbal teas” although technically they are not.
3. Ice Cold Orange Juice or Lemon WaterBoth will give you smart carbs with natural energy and will also reduce your risk of heart disease. Most other fruit juices have additional health benefits. Lemon water is also highly alkalizing. It will take a bit more time or energy to have fresh juice but you won’t be spending time making coffee.
4. Dandelion CoffeeThe nice thing about this is that it can be absolutely free. Dandelion root has a host of health benefits. Read how to make it at Dandelion Root Coffee
5. Power Foods: Pick One, Any OneThere are whole foods that will give you the energy and clarity that you are trying to get with coffee. They are probably in your kitchen right now. Below is a list of great choices for breakfast or a snack. Take your pick from the list and enjoy the energy and health benefits!
- Apples:
- One of these per day will keep the doctor away!
- Bananas
- Contains the anti-carcinogenic substance, ellagic acid.
- Almonds
- : The crinkly powerfood with the highest antioxidant activity of any nut.
- Pumpkin Seeds
- : The alkalizing seed.
- Quinoa:
- This nutty-flavored powerfood is pronounced keen–wa.
- Much more health benefits than just fiber.
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NOTE; Coffee is seed, most seeds are usually the source of uric acid and caffeine. But if you are using the healthy mushroom coffee you are safe because it is not seed, besides that it is a detoxifying herb so you must know this thing. That is DXN healthy coffee, if you don't know where to buy it just tell me wherever you are because it is available in 150 countries.
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