Drink Coffee?

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When I drink coffee it usually leads to me getting all wired up and needing to pace and move my hands around constantly.
Tea has a mild muscle relaxant effect. I think that is what keeps me from getting all wired up and lets me enjoy the awareness and mental clarity boost without the distraction.

It is amazing the cool beneficial effects that tea has. Here is just one of the chemicals found in tea.
Tea contains the amino acid theanine which can cross the blood brain barrier and has some interesting effects. It promotes alpha wave activity, increases serotonin and dopamine production. It also lowers mental and physical stress and promotes relaxation. It also boosts the production of antibacterial proteins.
Studies with rats show that high repeated doses of theanine had no detrimental physical or psychological effects.

Drink Coffee?!

HAHAHAHA!! !! !

I stick myself with an IV full of the stuff!

A bad coffee is .... well, bad. Really, really bad. Foul.

A good coffee is ambrosia.

And nothing is better than the smell of fresh brewed coffee.

EXCEPT the smell of a freshly opened can of ground coffee. YUM.

True

I will never understand why other people like coffee and alcohol. I'm extremely picky when we are talking about tastes of food and drinks and I find the taste of those drinks simply disgusting. I like only the smell of coffee, nothing more.

I like coffee but I'm trying to keep it to 3 cups a day as I think any more is
counterproductive for me healthwise.Most of us in UK are happy enough with instant
coffee so making it isn't any hassle.When I was thirsty I used to automatically
take coffee but now I vary it with mineral water,fruit juice or herbal tea.

I've had to cut back on the amount of hot, brewed coffee I drink. Twenty years ago, I would go through four or five cups in a morning. Now, I find more than two a day, twelve hours apart, can bring on high-blood-pressure symptoms. Strangely, cold coffee drinks don't affect me that way, possibly because they're tasty enough that I drink them to savor the flavor instead of just giving my mouth something to do.

I have to laugh at the "new" cold-coffee drinks being offered by Starbucks and smiliar, however. My family, in my childhood, tended to drink both iced tea and iced coffee in the summer. Until maybe five years ago, iced tea was common almost everywhere (although people south of the Mason-Dixon line n the United States only drink it candy-sweet), but iced coffee was only known in New England, as far as I knew. I could be wrong, though. It's not true now, though, and I applaud the trend. I like a nice iced cappucino.

ive drank it ever since i was about 8 or 7

heres some im drinking now, in my favorite cup

Hot coffee I love...cold coffee shouldn't even be allowed to be called coffee ...to me it becomes something else cold...nasty coffee.

Same for coffee ice-cream, coffee flavored chocolate...blech. Coffee flavored chocolate...that should be a punishable crime or something...don't mess with my chocolate.

I never enjoyed drinking the stuff until recently actually. Think im sencitive to the heat, so I let it cool down alot b4 I drink it and only need to when I have not slept in a day or more (I dont have much of a sleep cycle). Otherwise I like soda, Dr. Pepper or Mtn. Dew

I used to drink 20 cups of coffee per day, then I stopped smoking. Now I am down to 5-8 cups per day.

I absolutely hate the taste of coffee. Even mocha flavoring in candies, drinks or ice cream makes me want to gag. I do like caffeine though, it perks me up and makes me more outgoing. I drink tea or colas when the need arises.

I think I need to either drink more coffee or stop drinking coffee Because I drink it so rarely that it affects me rather strongly when I do. It makes me less productive because I get all shaky and can't type properly, and I get task-related ADD, starting one job in the middle of another and suchlike. Plus if I drink it after about midday, it keeps me awake at bedtime.

But if I decide to drink more of it, I'll need to make sure I get lots of calcium to make up for the depletion effect, as I have joint problems that don't need exacerbating.