Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”

Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by BrandoElFollito on Sunday November 26, 2017 @02:48AM (#15779895)

Would you have any sources on that?

I casually looked into that claim in the past and read that coffee is as strong a diuretic as pure water.

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by chucky_z on Sunday November 26, 2017 @03:01AM (#15779929)

there's.... i believe there is enough anecdotal evidence to state with a reasonable confidence level that coffee makes you poop.

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by m_fayer on Sunday November 26, 2017 @12:01PM (#15781759)

Yeah really no need to study this. There's "anecdotal" and then there's "this happens to 80% of people and we have cute euphemisms for when you excuse yourself" and that to me is as good as the most rigorous of studies. Now uhh, excuse me, back in a sec.

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by deletefb on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:38PM (#15783983)

Chiming in for n+1. Can confirm: I enjoy my post-caffeine quiet time. :)

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by nasredin on Sunday November 26, 2017 @04:31AM (#15780159)

Hmmm, I smell an IG Nobel prize opportunity for an ambitious grad student who is not afraid to get his hands dirty.

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by GordonS on Sunday November 26, 2017 @01:11PM (#15782171)

What? I drink rather a lot of coffee and have never had that effect. I've never heard it from anyone else either. Is there any non-anecdotal evidence for this?

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by chucky_z on Sunday November 26, 2017 @11:42PM (#15784884)

Do you primarily drink iced, cold brewed, or something like keurig?

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by GordonS on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:35PM (#15790998)

Nope, just normal coffee. Sometimes made in a cafetiere, sometimes from the (rather good) machine at work, but I mostly make Greek or Turkish style these days. It's never given me a dose of the shits however its made though!

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by sjg007 on Sunday November 26, 2017 @08:13PM (#15784095)

The caffeine relaxes the intestinal tract..

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by dxhdr on Sunday November 26, 2017 @04:28AM (#15780149)

Caffeine is a stimulant. One of the things it stimulates are your colonic muscles which can induce peristalsis.

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by throw_away2 on Sunday November 26, 2017 @03:00AM (#15779926)

Perhaps they mean as a laxative rather than as a diuretic.

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Re:Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit He... by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:18PM (#15809314)

Yes, I believe so from the comments.

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