coffee addicts are just drug addicts
June 17th, 2008I was searching the NYT archives for an article referencing the research published in New Scientist suggesting that people who drink four or five cups of coffee a day are 34 percent less likely to die of heart disease than the rest of us, and found an article from Oct 21, 1914 in the NYTÂ stating that heavy coffee drinkers are just drug addicts. To be fair, the central statement of this article made by Dr. C. J. Douglas is not as damning as the headline. Dr. Douglas explains that there are two reasons people drink coffee and tea – because they enjoy the flavor or because they enjoy the stimulative effects of caffeine. The latter case is probably not good for the health.
I’m just amused that the NYT ever found this 8 sentence quote newsworthy.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
The reason people that drink 4 to 5 cups of coffee a day have less heart disease is because they are so hyper! (Of course I know this ain’t true…I know many morbidly obese people that drink coffee in lieu of other beverages.)