This article details how coffee negatively impacts your health. What was most disconcerting was that it said that coffee is a drug, and that your body enters a phase where when it doesn't receive enough, it goes through withdrawal. And I know that if you start with one cup a day, eventually you'll need to have two just to feel the same effects. What the article failed to mention, aside from the health aspect, is that it promotes socialness.
I think that coffee is a way for friends to sit down and catch up with one another. It also serves as a way for those who don't know each other to do so. Can a social norm (i.e. let's go to coffee), be considered bad for you? Because I believe that there is nothing sweeter than an iced coffee caramel delight complimented by some juicy gossip. But you didn't hear it from me.
I personally love coffee as well! I know that when I get home my parents will be waiting at the airport for me with a bagel and an ice coffee from Dunkin Donuts for me*cant wait! I total agree with you that coffee does promote socialness, but so does a lot of other things. I mean don't get me wrong I think that coffees the best legal drug around haha but it is a drug. They say it stunts your growth but I feel like ive been drinking coffee for so long now that if it really did, god i would not want to know how tall I would be. When I was younger I drank it just because i enjoyed the taste but once i hit college no longer do i drink it because of the taste but i rely on it to keep me up to study for test or to get papers done. My mom actually used to limit me to only get decaf because she said i was drinking too much caffine*she was right) but coffee is so addicting. My friends dad actually went/goes through withdrawal.. if he doesn't have at least a cup a day he get the worst headaches ever. I feel like most people do and dont even realize it. I remember one summer I went to soccer camp and the nutritionist there told us that if we must drink coffee to only have one cup of black coffee first thing in the morning and that's it. But with cappuccinos and espresso being so amazingly good here in Italy its hard to oblige to that.
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