The elixir of life (Coffee in general)

Member Name: Asylum

Product:	Coffee in general
Date:	27/10/02 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: enjoyable, rejuvenating

Disadvantages: expensive, uncertain health risk

As with virtually all life on this planet, mankind has evolved with a great dependence on water. However, society in the wealthier sections of the world seems to have developed a reluctance over the years to drink water in it’s original state. Instead we tend to intake water in a variety of flavoured formats such as orange juice, beer or tea. Coffee has become one of the more popular ways to flavour our intake, a factor that is reflected by the current cost of the product in general.
Much has been discussed over the years concerning the effects of coffee on the human body, although the majority constitutes little more than scientific conjecture. Caffeine is known to stimulate and suppress the desire to sleep, yet we are constantly warned about the various downsides of it. It is even marketed quite abundantly now in a caffeine free form, which seems quite pointless to me. If you do not wish to intake caffeine then do not drink coffee. Do we market orange juice without vitamin C or yeast free bread, what would be the point?
As for the taste of coffee, I personally find it to be excellent. Despite the current inflated price I still consider coffee to be good value and cannot conceive of ever running out of it. I not only drink it in great quantity at home, but rarely go out shopping or travelling without calling at a café or coffee stall.
Whether or not it does me any harm to consume so much is still debatable, but I shall certainly continue to do so. One thing seems quite certain to me, coffee is very addictive.

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