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Alternative to coffee
tallgeeze
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I'm looking for a replacement for my morning coffee. I only have 1 cup a day in the morning, but my doctor recommends that I lay off it(cholesterol, etc. :P). I usually put cream and sugar in my coffee because the taste of straight up black coffee is unbearable to me.
Energy drinks do squat for me, so they are out. I heard green tea is good, but I run into the same taste issue I have with black coffee.
Anyone have a good morning pick me up drink I can look into? Doesn't even have to be a drink.
Energy drinks do squat for me, so they are out. I heard green tea is good, but I run into the same taste issue I have with black coffee.
Anyone have a good morning pick me up drink I can look into? Doesn't even have to be a drink.
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Plus it's good for you.
You might want to avoid the "drink" issue altogether. Do you skip breakfast? I find that if I skip breakfast I drag ass. However a good breakfast in the morning usually wakes me right up.
However if your sole reasoning for dropping the coffee is the cholesterol/caffeine mixing, green tea is probably not the best alternative since it still contains a small amount. Definitely better than coffee though, I also second the honey in it if you can't stand the sometimes grassy taste.
If it's not a drink, I'd recommend a nice, big bowl of muesli + fruit + cold milk (or soy milk, goat milk, etc.). Doing some kind of puzzle while I'm eating also helps wake me up - crosswords or Sudoku or even Brain Age if you've got a DS.
Damn straight.
Drink tea.
1 cup of coffee a day is just as healthy for you, apparently according to medicinenet.
However, I think the issue is not so much the coffee, but something else causing the cholesterol. I wonder if it runs in his family.
Spearmint tea. Spear. Mint. Spearmint. Now that is a mint with real character.
Or you could get some milk and make a tea latte with a smidge of honey.
but they're listening to every word I say
The choice of cream/sugar he requires for coffee?
But that seems unlikely to cause a major issue with heart health.
I'd be willing to bet its something else.
Generally tea is something like half the caffeine content of coffee, and with a wide varieties of them you don't have to find yourself stuck with the same tired boring stuff. Certain teas go with milk, honey, sugar, or lemon.
Energy drinks are shitty by a large degree, I recommend against it.
Another thing that would help your morning depends on the breakfast you are eating. Get some protein in there by eggs or some nuts (healthy nuts like walnuts or almonds). Avoid really sugary foods as you will just crash midday.
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He'd have to be massively blasting his coffee with them to matter in a cup a day. I'd definitely be suspicious of some other blaring problem like genetics. I'd probably wager to dance around the village naked if it was found a cup of joe is the sole cause for high cholesterol or even if it's going to matter in the slightest.
Yes, usually with some bran too. I've had good times with some meat, but with high cholesterol you have to watch that.
Unless the doctor is suggesting you skip caffeine so that your cholesterol problem doesn't cause a stroke. Perhaps it might be good to ask him *why* coffee specifically, so you can figure out if it's caffeine he's asking you to drop, or just how you take your coffee?
I will try the different teas you guys brought up. peppermint tea sounds interesting. I do try to eat a good breakfast, but it's difficult since my job is real busy in the mornings.
Hmm, I don't know if you told him that you put stuff in it, but a cup of coffee daily should help cut down on your risk of heart disease, I think, which would be the primary concern with being fat.
Yeah eliminating foods high in saturated fats should be your primary concern at this point. Couple that with more exercise and drinking water, and maybe some pills if you're on them, you'll probably see a huge decrease in your bad cholesterol levels. Looking at a cup of coffee as a cause or as a reason for lowering high cholesterol is really a weird thing to do, especially for a doctor.
I love me some Mate. So much that I wrote up a big post on how to prepare it the traditional way.
I told him all the things I regularly eat and drink. When I told him how I like my coffee that's when he said cut it out if that's the only way I'm gonna drink it.
Coffee is good for me now, but in 5-10 years I will hear a news report saying it causes cancer(or something just as bad).
I'm incorporating that right food and exercise stuff, but first I need to settle the morning beverage delimma.
I'm going to get a variety of teas and some honey(everyone seems to suggest that) then see what sticks.
Right after they say that apples are highly carcinogenic.
Oh that is just the coolest.