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Caffeine Addiction

Excerpt from-

FOUNDATION TO ALL FREEDOM

 

 

There are more coffee addicts in the US than drug addicts of any

other kind.- Charles F. Withal

 

Caffeine is the Christian drug of preference. Drink a glass of red

wine or light up a cigarette during Sunday Fellowship Hour, and you

will be thrown out on your ear.

But a two-hundred-gallon pot of black " adrenal-rush " will bring

friendly smiles of delight.

 

The meeting would not be the same with the absence of its nutty

aroma filling the church basement. Little white Styrofoam cups

floating in small clusters of heavenly conversation.

 

Caffeine is highly addictive. Quitting coffee can cause withdrawal

symptoms such as headaches, sleepiness and irritability.

 

The acidic nature of coffee can lead to stomach ulcers.

When the excess acid enters the bloodstream, it

alsoincreases 'calcium loss' in the urine.

 

Coffee has no 'nutritional' value.

Tannin, the substance that makes coffee cups brown and coats coffee

pots, is used for tanning leather. Just imagine how it affects the

stomach after twenty years of drinking coffee.

 

Coca Cola put 'cocaine' in their drink at the turn of the century.

It sold extremely well.

Some consumers succumbed to the addictive quality of cocaine and

started to drink undiluted Cola syrup.

 

When cocaine was banned for use in soft drink the bottlers switched

to caffeine.

 

The top selling soft drinks are loaded with caffeine:

 

Coca Cola, 62 mg;

Mountain Dew, 49 mg;

and TAB, 45 mg.

 

Similarly, instant coffee contains 66 mg per cup.

On those warm summer days, young children drink large amounts of

caffeinated pop.

Children with half the adult weight and three times the sensitivity.

One can of cola for them is equivalent to 3 cups of instant coffee

for an adult.

 

Caffeine, combined with sugar, salt, and a diet high in synthetic

food, creates one 'unmanageable' youngster.

 

Caffeine is also be found in cold remedies, diet pills,

wake-up pills, chocolate, and pain killers.

Over the counter and prescription pain killers will add to your

caffeine " quota " :

Excedrin, 65 mg; Midol, 32 mg; Anacin, 32 mg; Darvon Compound, 32

mg; and Fiorinal, 32 mg.

 

Instead of healing the cold, caffeine 'slows down' the elimination

of mucus and " destroys " vitamin C.

 

In a survey, the four top reasons for people quitting coffee were:

central nervous system disorders, 39%;

gastrointestinal problems, 37%; to break the addiction, 19%; and

fibrocystic breast tumors, 15%.

 

Monkeys are sensitive creatures. During the Boer War, the enemies of

the British often poisoned their food supplies.

Soldiers used monkeys to test the food.

 

They chose what to eat by holding the food to their lower jaw and if

the food was poisoned, the monkey would throw it away.

 

A natural health practitioner, fascinated by the account, decided to

test baboons to see if they had a similar ability.

 

An apple was injected with strong coffee by a hypodermic needle. Two

apples were given, the untouched apple was eaten hungrily by one

baboon, a second baboon received the injected apple.

He held it to his jaw, let out an angry screeching sound then tried

to attack the experimenter.

When he was given a good apple he went off to the corner and ate

happily.

 

Caffeine is able to penetrate deep into vital tissue.

Evidence shows that it may be linked to male infertility and also

birth defects by passing through the placenta.

Drinking coffee during breast feeding will cause caffeine to be

present in mothers' milk.

 

Caffeine has a powerful effect on coronary arteries and the

pulmonary and systemic vessels, causing a greater flow of blood to

the heart muscle, but decreasing the flow of blood to the brain

by 'constricting' cerebral blood vessels.

 

Caffeine can cause abnormally fast, abnormally slow and irregular

heart beats. It also wreaks havoc on blood pressure, commonly

producing hypertension.

 

Coffee has been linked to heart disease, pancreas,bladder cancer,

and hypoglycemia.

 

Caffeine is a central nervous system " stimulant " , providing that

familiar kick on which we have come to depend.

But as with all stimulants, there is a price to be paid.

 

If you run the body on 'overdrive' for an extended period of time by

artificially stimulating the " adrenals " ,

expect breakdown to occur.

 

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" Terpenoids "

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Avoid caffeine in sodas, coffee and chocolate for better cholesterol

management.

 

" Terpenoids " are naturally occurring organic compounds found in

coffee that are known to increase *cholesterol* levels.

Researchers report that these terpenoids are only partially removed

by coffee filters.

 

Caffeine is a potent *diuretic* and tends to diminish our stores of

precious bodily fluids.

 

 

Dangerous chemicals are used in the production of coffee: poisonous

herbicide and pesticide sprays in its cultivation,

petroleum-based solvents in its decaffeination,

and other chemicals in making it instant;

 

in addition, the oils in coffee easily go rancid

once it is ground.

 

-- Heavy coffee drinkers are deficient in calcium and other

important minerals.

 

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