{"id":132,"date":"2009-01-27T15:41:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T15:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/01\/to-coffee-or-not-to-coffee.html"},"modified":"2009-01-27T15:41:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T15:41:15","slug":"to-coffee-or-not-to-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/01\/to-coffee-or-not-to-coffee.html","title":{"rendered":"To Coffee or Not to Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font color=\"#000000\">I remember the moment I kicked the coffee. It was at our cheesily named college lounge, The Java Joint. I had been up writing some sort of paper, probably about the role of misogynistic archetypes in top 40 songs or something, and went down for a refill around 11 pm. Almost instantly my stomach cramped and kicked&#8211;for the tenth time that week. And I said, No more. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font color=\"#000000\">Fast forward 15 years. Yeah, I finished college, post-college, early career, even graduate school with nary a sip of the dark brew. Then this summer I thought it might be fun to try and iced coffee from the new local organic place. Organic coffee with soymilk, natch. And omg. Javatastic heaven. And almost every day since&#8211;it&#8217;s now been a month or two&#8211;I&#8217;ve gotten my milk-chocolate colored drink. I almost never finish it and mostly nurse it all day like a bottomless bottle of whiskey. Am I in trouble? Sometimes even after a few sips I feel this not unpleasant surge of energy along my arms. My acupuncturist warns against caffeine as though it were crack, a hammer to the adrenals whose function is hampered by coffee&#8217;s chemistry. But then there&#8217;s the coffee-as-antioxidant argument. This summer an article about the health-related and cons of coffee topped the New York Times&#8217; Most Emailed list for weeks. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font color=\"#000000\">So I wonder&#8211;is this a gateway to more coffee? Am I already doing damage to my tender chi? Or am I just displacing my usual green tea quota? What&#8217;s your relationship to the bean? Love, hate, addicted, hate the stuff? <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the moment I kicked the coffee. It was at our cheesily named college lounge, The Java Joint. I had been up writing some sort of paper, probably about the role of misogynistic archetypes in top 40 songs or something, and went down for a refill around 11 pm. 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