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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:33 AM
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Coffee may cut alcohol liver damage
:toast:

CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -- Could Irish coffee be the perfect drink?

Researchers report that drinking coffee cuts the risk of cirrhosis of the liver from alcohol -- by 22 percent per cup each day -- but they stopped short of saying doctors should prescribe coffee for that reason.

The report from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, California, was based on a look at data from 125,580 people.

"These data support the hypothesis that there is an ingredient in coffee that protects against cirrhosis, especially alcoholic cirrhosis," concluded the report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

cont'd...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/06/13/coffee.liver.reut/index.html
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:35 AM
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1. Oh great- more wide awake drunks
just what we need.
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:36 AM
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3. LOL!!!
As long as they are alert.

:-)
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 03:51 PM
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30. and apparently 17 glasses of beer a day can reduce prostate cancer
so..we'll have a bunch of wide awake drunks hanging out in the bathroom all day trying to pee:)

At least they'll be BUSY :)
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:36 AM
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2. Let me take a wild guess
The study was funded by Folgers? :shrug:

Newsflash...cutting consumption of alcohol reduces the risk of alcoholic liver disease...you can take that one to the bank :D
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:43 AM
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5. Also reduces the risk of becoming an abusive drunk
and/or being a menance on the public roads. It's win/win to not drink to excess.

:hi: NSMA
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:36 AM
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4. I've often wondered how some heavy drinkers get away with it
:shrug:
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:46 AM
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6. Some of us are Irish.
We are genetically pre-disposed to be functioning alcoholics. And enablers.

:-)
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:48 AM
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8. (Ahhhh) The people who discovered Irish Coffee?
:evilgrin:
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:48 AM
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9. Yes.
And all it's medicinal components as well.

:evilgrin:
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 01:34 PM
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17. I always thought Irish coffee was invented in San Francisco. nt
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 02:26 PM
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20. Well, the Buena Vista (my favorite breakfast place of all time) is famous
Edited on Tue Jun-13-06 02:26 PM by TahitiNut
... for their Irish coffee. Heaven is an early weekend morning, parking SoMa, cable car to the wharf, and breakfast at the Buena Vista when it opens, looking at the flowers around the cable car stop and chatting with tourists from all over the world at tables for six. For 15 years, that was part of my favorite way to spend a weekend. Buena Vista eggs and coffee - with good company.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 07:54 PM
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38. Oh YEAH! It's worth a trip across the country just for the Irish Coffee
and the Eggs Benedict!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 01:04 PM
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14. And some of us were just drafted into the family.
:toast:
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 01:28 PM
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16. It's a big tent in the Irish families.
:-) The more the merrier.

:toast:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:47 AM
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7. Drinking coffee and no alcohol works for me.
My liver is like a newborn's. O8)
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 03:46 PM
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28. My liver knows how to accept a good challenge.
It does get coffee though for backup.
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:49 AM
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10. But but but... I thought it caused cancer in laboratory rats.
:crazy::eyes:
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:52 AM
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11. Actually, a little known study showed that
laboratories caused cancer in rats.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 07:54 PM
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39. There's a great scene from West Wing
When Margret is talking to the Surgeon General about how everything causes cancer in lab rats. She asks the Surgeon General if perhaps lab rats are pre-disposed to cancer. The Surgeon General replies "You know, we haven't ruled that one out."
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 10:58 AM
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12. "Irish coffee is the only drink that contains, in a single glass,
the four basic food groups - alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat"

- Oscar Levant
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 11:38 AM
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13. So does a White Russian
:evilgrin:
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LeftHander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 01:06 PM
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15. Add donuts and smoking and you got one healthy lifestyle! nt
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one_true_leroy Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 01:34 PM
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18. AHA!!!!
So coffee protects the liver against damge from alcohol, and drinking 17 beers daily can protect my prostate.... I'm gonna live forever!!!!
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 01:35 PM
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19. now, what can it do for cigarettes?
turns out the Minus 5 were right...

all you really need, cigarettes, coffee and booze.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 07:52 PM
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37. Switch to rolling your own tobacco
I thought this might be an interesting way to go about quitting or at least cutting down. Promise yourself that you can smoke but only if you roll your own tobacco. Chances are that you will drastically cut the amount that you smoke per day because it's such a pain in the ass.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 09:54 AM
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43. Hand-rolled ciggies are safer
No nitrates or other crapola that they put in factory ones.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 02:33 PM
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21. I heard about this report on the news this morning...
...immediately following a report about (I swear to God) how drinking LOTS of beer reduces men's chances of prostate cancer. Beer and coffee, miracle elixirs apparently.
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 02:37 PM
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22. Apparently I'd have to drink 17 beers to have the positive effects.
Not that I am not up to the challenge, but that's a LOT of beer.

:-)
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 03:43 PM
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27. I think it goes something like this:
The beer will take care of the prostate, the coffee will take care of the cirrhosis caused by the beer and, I guess, cigarettes will take care of the jitters caused by the coffee.:) Who knew that vices could be so good for you?
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 02:38 PM
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23. It's something in the hops - the good news for some of us is...
Cannabis contains the same thing.

:hide:
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 02:41 PM
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24. SWEET!!!
Then I can put the pint down and hold on to the pipe?

:hide:
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 02:47 PM
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25. Dude in The Big Lebowski may be our new health guru
Caucasians and doobies all around.
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 02:49 PM
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26. LOL!!!
:rofl:

Such a great film. Stoned or not. ;-)
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grateful581 Donating Member (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 03:50 PM
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29. Thats great news!
I going to celebrate by getting shit faced DRUNK
:toast:
I have the Fat Tire keg iced and ready to go after work.
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 03:53 PM
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31. So what time should we all be there?
B-)

:toast:
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grateful581 Donating Member (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 04:00 PM
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32. 7:00 mountan time
:toast:
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 07:47 PM
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35. How about I toast you at 9:00 Eastern?
B-)

:toast:
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 04:02 PM
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33. And here all this time I thought it was just an urge.
My liver was on the sofa having coffee this morning, and it seemed to be in a good mood, so I guess it really is good for it.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 07:57 PM
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41. ROFL!
:hangover: :beer:
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trekbiker Donating Member (724 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 04:31 PM
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34. Thank God!!! looks like I'll live afterall..
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 07:55 PM
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40. BAHA! Me too! Praise be to coffee! n/t
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 07:49 PM
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36. I went straight to pour myself a cup of coffee after reading this
Not that I binge drink frequently or anything, but you can never be too careful. Plus I needed to wake up.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 09:53 AM
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42. I'm having one now myself
Must counteract three Margaritas from last night.

I feel physically terrific, BTW.
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