reflectivist wrote:
What is the optimal amount of coffee to drink before playing an important game of chess?
Just enough to neutralize the previous night's hang-over.
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As much as you can possibly get into your stomach without it bursting.
Coffee is awesome <3
Caffeine is a drug that may help a few times when you are not addicted yet but then it basically becomes a necessity to function normally.
Also it's bitter.
So I avoid consuming it for the most part.
Xilmi wrote:
Caffeine is a drug that may help a few times when you are not addicted yet but then it basically becomes a necessity to function normally.
Also it's bitter.
So I avoid consuming it for the most part.
I don't usually like coffee either, so in order to get my caffeine fix I drink copious amounts of green tea. It's supposedly really healthy too.
Xilmi wrote:
Caffeine is a drug that may help a few times when you are not addicted yet but then it basically becomes a necessity to function normally.
Also it's bitter.
So I avoid consuming it for the most part.
Safe coffee-drinking is no oxidant.
Coffee is great (black, of course). There are no significant health risks associated with drinking it provided you are sensible and it has been shown to significantly improve cognition. So I would say drinking coffee before a chess game is perfectly safe.
Consuming caffeine fakes the brain by blocking receptors for certain enzymes that signal tiredness. The brain counteracts by building up more of these receptors.
This eventually results someone who stops drinking coffee to be tired much quicker than normal. Thus creating an addiction.
It is not really damaging or unhealthy and will eventually normalize if you stop for long enough. But it still will make you want to drink that stuff and spend unneccessary ressources on obtaining it.
Who cares, just pass the coffee cake....
Just enough coffee to hide the smell of the whiskey.
May 12, 2013
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I never cease to be fascinated by people's blind faith in the knowledge of total strangers instead of looking something up for themselves.
NimzoRoy wrote:
I never cease to be fascinated by people's blind faith in the knowledge of total strangers instead of looking something up for themselves.
I'll take your word for it
May 12, 2013
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time2think124 wrote:
NimzoRoy wrote:
I never cease to be fascinated by people's blind faith in the knowledge of total strangers instead of looking something up for themselves.
I'll take your word for it
Now THAT'S the attitude we're trying to foster!
One of my favorite things to do to people, while having a conversation with someone, as another walks up, I will say to them, isn't that right ? To my amazement, 7 out of 10 times, they will say yes, even though they didn't actually hear the conversation.
After they say yes, I quickly reply, the conversation I was just having with the other person was about how people will agree other people and have no clue what they are talking about...
I think that no coffee is better than any coffee. Drink some juice instead. It'll provide more energy than coffee and there's no crash, though a friend of my father's says you can't have a crash if you're drinking coffee all day.
I prefer green tea mixed with fruit juice...
NimzoRoy wrote:
I never cease to be fascinated by people's blind faith in the knowledge of total strangers instead of looking something up for themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have any faith in you, I'm just curious about your opinion on the matter (of coffee, not my faith).
May 12, 2013
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reflectivist wrote:
NimzoRoy wrote:
I never cease to be fascinated by people's blind faith in the knowledge of total strangers instead of looking something up for themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have any faith in you, I'm just curious about your opinion on the matter (of coffee, not my faith).
That's too bad I have lots of swell(sic) opinions about faith (and almost everything else too) BUT since you're focused on coffee why not just drink whatever brand/type of coffee you happen to like? AND maybe you should test it's effects on you at some other activity first, it would really suck to find out that you didn't care for a caffeine buzz (or whatever's an excessive buzz for you) OTB wouldn't it?
BTW how is anyone else supposed to determine your "optimal amt?" One of our fascinating traits is that we don't all react exactly the same to equal doses of caffeine, nicotine, narcotics, opiates, cancer meds, etc etc. Those much parodied warning labels on meds aren't for the benefit of 99% of the people who take them, they're for the benefit of the 1% (or less) of those unfortunate few who have adverse or unusual reactions
Xilmi wrote:
Consuming caffeine fakes the brain by blocking receptors for certain enzymes that signal tiredness. The brain counteracts by building up more of these receptors.
This eventually results someone who stops drinking coffee to be tired much quicker than normal. Thus creating an addiction.
It is not really damaging or unhealthy and will eventually normalize if you stop for long enough. But it still will make you want to drink that stuff and spend unneccessary ressources on obtaining it.
Just... no. Caffeine is an antagonist only to adesnosine receptors, which partially contribute to inhibiting physiological arousal.
Yes you can build a tolerance to caffeine and yes you can have (rather slight) withdrawal effects, but that has nothing to do with addiction. As mentioned before, recent studies have shown regular coffee drinkers to perform better on working memory tests.
Coffee is perfectly healthy for you (it's all the cream and sugar that's unhealthy), and everyone has different reactions to caffeine. There is no baseline optimal amount to consume, it varies from person to person.
May 12, 2013
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To say that "...coffee is perfectly healthy for you" is hardly accurate is it perfectly healthy for people with hypertension or chronic heartburn for instance? BTW I drink coffee daily so it's not like I'm prejudiced here...
http://www.webmd.com/balance/caffeine-myths-and-facts
http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-edge-newspaper-2010/mar-05b.html
What is the optimal amount of coffee to drink before playing an important game of chess? What variety, how should it be prepared, and how long prior to the game?