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How many cups of coffee do you have per day?

Jim Lahey said:
Wait. What? Come again? You make your coffee with a third of the cup/mug/glass being double cream?? Blimey, that is crazy. Each to their own and everything, but that is a bit way out there. You must have to boil the cream first to stop it making your coffee instantly cold :wideyed:
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I do too although I use a medium cup....I do have to pop the coffee (plus cream) into a microwave to make it hot though having gone to the trouble of investing in an espresso machine. When we were in Italy and I asked for my coffee that way, they were aghast! They did it though.
 
KK123 said:
I do too although I use a medium cup....I do have to pop the coffee (plus cream) into a microwave to make it hot though having gone to the trouble of investing in an espresso machine. When we were in Italy and I asked for my coffee that way, they were aghast! They did it though.
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Barmy stuff. Well as long as y’all enjoy it that’s the main thing :wideyed:
 
KK123 said:
I do too although I use a medium cup....I do have to pop the coffee (plus cream) into a microwave to make it hot though having gone to the trouble of investing in an espresso machine. When we were in Italy and I asked for my coffee that way, they were aghast! They did it though.
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If by "medium cup" you mean a normal tea cup size, then a third of a cup of double cream would be about 300kcal. which seems a lot for a drink.
 
Jim Lahey said:
Wait. What? Come again? You make your coffee with a third of the cup/mug/glass being double cream?? Blimey, that is crazy. Each to their own and everything, but that is a bit way out there. You must have to boil the cream first to stop it making your coffee instantly cold :wideyed:
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In North America, we refer to the % as the fat % of milk or cream. Thus
0% milk
1% milk
2% milk
3.25% milk
10% cream
18% cream and
35% cream

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I usually have one cup to start the day.
However that is 3 heaped spoons of instant plus butter and double cream.
I usually also have a black americano at the coffee stop on cycle ride Wednesdays
 
I'm sitting here with my first lovely strong cup of coffee for the day (I was trained in coffee drinking by serious coffee drinkers - the Swedes, so I learnt my limits with that divine drug caffeine as a young woman). (The Swedes by the way, were the first folks to do scientific studies of the effects of coffee drinking, although I am quite sure the peoples who first discovered it made a fantastic stimulant and drink had lively conversations like this one of the effects and personal limitations with it also!)

First of all - @jape - I had a kidney function scare recently (urine test result, as opposed to the egfr). So before I got the re-test results I read up in here and scientific papers online on the effect of coffee on kidneys, and the bladder (it can be an irritant). I am just waking up (yeah - with my Swedish-strength coffee) - so I am will reviist with the papers' links - cos this is good info for us to talk about. I cut down my generous consumption first, just in case, but quickly understood that there is no relationship between coffee and the drink, and kidney malfunction and decline - is my understanding. In fact, adorably - there is at least one paper which suggests coffee has a protective effect! (I was not expecting that either.) it would be interesting to hear why your doctor suggests coffee is contributing to CKD - as in the evidence and all that. Doctors mean well of course - but can jump on the nutrition thing with just the same knowledge as everyone else without disclosing that - and patients can think the doctor actually knows on the subject.... well.

Coffee and tea can be dehyrdrating, so if you are a fan - make sure you aren't drinking it or a lot of it before a standard diabetes check urine test - too much can skew the results. (High summer with high humidity here - so too easy to get dehyrated I discovered - drank a ton of water for an afternoon test, not a first thing in the morning one for the re-test.) (Yes - all normal. Whew!) (the egfr results, from the blood, was the correct one as it was.)

So my two cents worth - coffee not bad for the kidneys, but, it can be a irritant on your poor old bladder! If you have a poor old bladder. (I do! Alas.) So I keep my consumption to 2 or 3 in the morning, and the same with tea. And that helps my bladder issues which I won't go into! Just to say I have them.
 
Hej på dig, @Glyko.

When fasting/IFing - I drink coffee and tea, herb tea, water. Or if necessary - bone broth (if I need energy for instance), and coffee with cream for the same reason. Big thing to remind myself - drink heaps of water. Your body super needs it when fasting and IFing, more than usual, and one can get caught up with life and forget too easily I find. To one's peril!

When Very-Low-Calorie-Dieting (twice for two months a-piece), I gave a gave a - 3-5 calorie I think it was - count for all that plant matter pulversied in my tea pot and in the coffee perculator. And just measured and counted the cream and - I can't remember if I drank bone broth in those days. (i never want to count calories again - ever! Four months of my life was enough.) (But that is just me. I am not a numbers person unless I have to.)
 
Why would you want to give up coffee?

In all seriousness, if you limit your one cup (or 3 to 4 cups in my case) to before 1 or 2 in the afternoon (essentially so the caffeine doesn't interfere with sleep), there are no downsides to a good cup of coffee, and plenty of upsides from the polyphenols and fibre. Coffee is definitely on the nice list.

I'm slightly biased here.. huge coffee nerd, and so coffee for me is a bit of an obsession, could not imagine wanting to give it up.
 
I have 3-4 black coffees in the morning, and they are one of life's pleasures. At least one of those is an adaptogenic (don't think I'd be allowed to mention the company here) and I really enjoy the differences between them. In my normal coffee (brewed in a jug), I put 2 or 3 cardamom pods - great for mental alertness. My parents spent time in the Middle East and brought the idea back with them, and it's quite a pleasure.
 
I fast 2 or 3 times a week, I basically stop eating about 9pm and start lower carb eating around 12.30 the following day. I have a big mug of coffee about 9 then either another one or a cup of sugar free hot diluting juice about half eleven. It is easier if I keep active while I'm doing .
 
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