While we are on the subject of Drugs, Coffee causes cancer

Coffee causes Cancer
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Caffeine is the world's most popular stimulant. The drug four out of
five Americans take on any given day. Most of the caffeine we
consume comes from coffee.

The United States buys nearly one-half of the world supply of coffee
beans. It is said that a food service operation can stand or fall on
its reputation of the coffee it serves. Every mid-morning and mid-
afternoon working day millions of office and factory workers abandon
jobs for an employer-paid "coffee break." Over 15,000,000 Americans
are hooked on coffee; and most of them don't even know it, so
insidious is its addictive onslaught. The child or adult may
unknowingly ingest several hundred milligrams of caffeine
daily.

Like narcotics, alcohol or cigarettes, coffee and caffeinated
beverages are addictive, destructive drugs which each year
predispose millions of Americans to crippling illnesses and
sometimes fatal diseases.
Coffee and tea are the two most popular beverages in America. Less
than 9 percent of the population drink neither coffee nor tea.

Coffee is America's No. 1 drug problem.

CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL

Caffeine withdrawal can occur from just missing one cup of coffee in
the morning. Symptoms of caffeine withdrawal are headaches,
irritability, inability to work effectively, nervousness,
restlessness and lethargy. A steady user of caffeine may, at times,
experience tight headaches in the back of the neck area and be quick
to anger or irritation.

CAFFEINE ACTS AS A STIMULANT
Caffeine is a toxic stimulant. Body reactions are speeded up. This
is not a natural thing for the body.
What it does is activate The Fight or Flight Response.

Executive Fitness Newsletter, October 13, 1984, stated:

"It's important to remember that the caffeine in coffee is a powerful
substance. It can stimulate the central nervous system, increase
heartbeat and metabolic rate, increase the secretion of stomach
acid, and step up secretion of stomach acid,
and step up kidney and bladder action.

It's also well known for its annoying ability to affect sleep."

The article goes on to say that in higher doses, caffeine can cause
"coffee nerves" with a wide assortment of symptoms "including
anxiety, irritability, headaches, light-headedness, nausea and
diarrhea."

Coffee can cause a temporary 'increase" in blood sugar, but it is
quickly followed by a decrease, and stimulates the release of
"adrenalin", which causes body tissues to be "broken down" into
"sugar" and "fat".

Too much insulin is produced, and the blood sugar falls to a low
level.

CAFFEINE IS A POISON

Caffeine, which is the main chemical in coffee, is a powerful
poison! A drop of caffeine injected into the skin of an animal will
produce death within a few minutes.
An infinitely small amount injected into the brain will cause
convulsions.

The amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee is quite small. Yet we
drink
coffee because of the effect of the caffeine,
just as we smoke because of the effect of the nicotine.

Both are drugs, both are habit-forming!

Both are poisons

COFFEE-DRINKING & STOMACH ULCERS

Two modern disorders: The general public usually associates with
coffee drinking — ulcers and heart trouble. J.A. Roth and A.C. Ivy,
whose animal experiments on coffee are famous, states in
Gastroenterology, November, 1948:

"Caffeine "produces" gastro-duodenal ulcers in animals to
whom the drug is given in a beeswax container so that their stomachs
are absorbing caffeine continually.

Also, caffeine produces very definite changes in the blood vessels of
animals, which are similar to changes produced by "prolonged"
resentment hostility and anxiety."

COFFEE LINKED TO HIP FRACTURES

The Providence Journal wrote in October 1, 1990: "People who drink
more than two cups of coffee or four cups of tea a day could be
increasing their risk of hip fracture in old age, according to a new
study.

"The study, published in the October issue of the American Journal
of Epidemiology, is the first to link caffeine consumption with hip
fractures that occur in older people whose bones have weakened.
A hip fracture often marks an elderly person's final decline into
dependency or death.

"Dr. Douglas P. Kiel, a professor of medicine at Brown University,
and his colleagues looked at how much coffee or tea 3,170 people
reported drinking over 14 years.

Then they looked to see which ones fractured their hips, a sign that
bones had become brittle. They found that heavy caffeine drinkers
were
53 percent more likely to suffer hip fractures.

"Caffeine has long been suspected of "draining" calcium from the
bones, because people who consume it have higher levels of calcium in
their "urine".

Loss of calcium leads to osteoporosis, the brittle-bone condition
that afflicts many elderly people, and results in an estimated
250,000 hip fractures each year."

INFERTILITY

Trying to become pregnant?
Then you should stop drinking caffinated drinks.

Among 104 women who drank junst one cup of caffinated coffee a
daywere half as likely to become pregnant during any given menstrual
cycle as those who drank less, accoding to a 1988 study by Allen
Wilcox of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Most of the studies conducted since then have also found that
caffeine impairs fertility, but usually only at three or more cups
of regular coffee a day.

But the research is only as good or bad-as the women's memories. For
example, scientists at Johns Hopkins University found that among
2,500 women who were trying to become pregnant, consuming more than
300 milligrams of caffeine a day reduced their chances of succeeding
in any given month by 17 percent.
But those results were based on the amount of coffee and soft drinks
the women could remember having consumed as many as ten years
earlier.

Even so, "it's probably prudent for women who are trying to become
pregnant, and especially for those having trouble, to cut back on
caffeine," says Mark Klebanoff of the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland.

DOES COFFEE CAUSE CANCER?

There is mounting evidence suggesting that if you want to avoid
certain cancers, you are well-advised to kick the coffee habit.

Roasting coffee "produces" tars and has the same characteristic as
coal tar.

- One study revealed that not only was coffee drinking associated
with increased risk of bladder cancer, but the drinking of cola
drinks
also was linked to this problem.
- Coffee drinking increases the risk of birth defects.
- Coffee drinking increases blood pressure, increasing the risk of
heart disease.

It is commonly thought that the drinking of coffee, soft drinks, and
other caffinated drinks is a minor matter as far as our healh is
concerned. But is it?

We cannot estimate its effect on mind and emotions, discrimination
and judgment.

And then there is the harmful effects of the stimulation on the heart
and other vital organs.

Coffee and other caffeine beverages are poor substitutes for water.

The body need fluids, but not stimulating drugs.

Giving up the coffee habit is relatively easy to do for most folks —
once a commitment has been made.

Since caffeine is a less toxic drug than alcohol and street drugs,
the majority of coffee drinkers can give up the habit without the
sort of difficulties that both alcoholics and drug addicts typically
experience. While it is true that caffeine has been around a long
time, that is not necessarily its best endrsement.
Russian roulette has been around for some time, too!

When giving up caffeine eat and drink nothing that does not
contribute in some way to good nutrition for the body.

Any food or drink that contains neither vitamins, minerals or enzymes
should automatically be crossed off the list. While breaking "the
coffee habit" be sure to drink plenty of fresh juices and water.

"Just how widespread is coffee drinking?

The average American drinks over twenty-six gallons of coffee per
year, but perhaps more germane to the discussion is caffeine itself.

Coffee has over three hundred chemicals; caffeine is only one of
them."
- Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers
By Katy Chamberlin

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References:

1. Charles F. Wetherall, Kicking The Coffee Habit, Wetherall Publ.
Co. MN.
2. Andrew Weil, M.D. & Winifred Rosen, Chocolate To Morphine,
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Mass.
3. Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam,
NY.
4. Nutrition Action, newsletter published by Center for Science in
the Public Interest, 1755 S. Street, N.W., WA, D.C.
5. Winston Craig, Ph.D., What's This About Caffeine, Cocoa, And
Chocolate?, Wildwood Echoes,
Fall, 1981.
6. Mervyn G. Hardinge, M.D., A Philosophy of Health, Loma Linda
University, CA.
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COFFEE CONSUMPTION IN REGARDS TO CANCER
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When coffee is roasted, the carcinogen, "benzopyrene" is formed.
There
have also been identified two other possible 'carcinogens' found in
coffee.

In 1981 I had an exchange with Professor Brian MacMahon of the
Harvard
School of Public Health.

He had completed a study in the Boston area discovering that even the
consumption of three cups of coffee a day increased the risks of
contracting pancreatic cancer by a factor of 2.7.

The study presented us with conclusive evidence that coffee
consumption was linked to at least 50% of all pancreatic cancers.

He stopped drinking coffee, replacing coffee with tea in his office.

In England prior to 1948 people there drank tea and very little
coffee.
However, after 1948, there was a vast increase in coffee drinking in
England, Dr. Tim Spencer of the St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London
in 1981 cast much light on the MacMahon study. He plotted the
importation of coffee into England between 1948 and 1973.

During that time, the importation of coffee increased by 120%. Also
during that time the death rate from pancreatic cancer in England
increased by 50%.

Dr. A.J. McMichael in Australia reviewed the MacMahon and Spencer
reports and had this to add.

He gave reference to the fact that coffee drinking greatly increased
the 'production' of the "intestinal hormone", 'gastrin'.

He said that in minor animals, coffee frequently stimulates the
production of gastrin, and gastrin stimulates "pancreatic
hyperplasia"
and "neoplasia".

In 1985 Ana Marie Comary Schally of Tulane University reported that
pancreatic cancer seems to be "hormone induced".

Coffee drinking in the USA has remained much the same over the past
100 years but during that time there has been a vast increase in
deaths from pncreatic cancer.

It is suggested that something very similar is happening with
pancreatic cancer as has happened previously with lung cancer and
that is that the increase in pancreatic cancer has been the 'direct
result'
of the "combination" of coffee drinking and the three-fold increase
of
"immuno-suppressive" 'polyunsaturated fats" in the diet.

There is a reference to support this concept.

D.F. Brik of our National Cancer Institute had reported in 1981 that
"pancreatic cancer" 'increased' when *corn oil* was added to the
diets of golden hamsters.

>From an article published by the "Townsend Letter",
"Some Real Causes of heart Disease & Cancer", by Wayne Martin

Caffeine,the main chemical in coffee, is a potential poison! Just a
small drop of caffeine injected into the skin of test animals
produces
*death* within just a few minutes.

An infinitely small amount injected into the "brain"
causes "convulsions".

There is mounting evidence suggesting that if you want to avoid
certain terminal cancers, you would be well-advised to "kick" the
'coffee habit'.

Roasting coffee produces tars and has similar characteristics as
coal tar.
- One recent study revealed that not only was coffee consumption
associated with increased risk of bladder cancer, but the consumption
of cola drinks was frequently linked to this problem as well.

- Coffee drinking increases the risk of birth defects.

- Coffee drinking increases blood pressure, also greatly increasing
the risks of more serious cardiovascular disease.

It is commonly thought that the consumption of coffee, soft drinks,
and other 'caffinated' drinks is a minor matter as far as our health
is concerned. But is it?

We cannot estimate its "effect" on mind and emotions, discrimination
and judgment. And then there is the harmful effects of the
"stimulation"

on the heart, adrenals and other vital organs.

Coffee and other caffeine beverages are poor substitutes for water.

The body needs quite large amounts of fluids, however it doesn't
'thrive' on stimulating drugs.
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