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Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:46 am**

I'm with you Di. I stopped drinking caffienated coffee several years back, suffered through the headaches but now I am a decaf girl and feel MUCH better from it! I'll drink a regular cup from time to time but not that often.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 4:11 am**

just a little forward thinking. caffeine leaches calcium from your system.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 4:33 am**

I can't drink more than one cup or I will never be able to finish a route wihtout a bathrrom break. The stuff flys through. I have been drinking tea lately b/c it doesn't give me that stomach ulcer feeling.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:04 am**

Gotta have the java. Got the screen door symptoms too. keeps me regulat and lets me drop balast before I climb.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:43 pm**

oh yeah, I live off the stuff. It is absolutely required with some of the long days I pull. I consider drinking coffee as "Better Living through Chemical Management" yet when there is a need to slow down I drink bourbon. Up in the morning, Down in the evening. simple.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:54 pm**

Yeah, a supervisor once said to me "The key to life is maintaining the fine balance between alcohol and caffeine".

Mj

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:07 pm**

meetVA wrote:just a little forward thinking. caffeine leaches calcium from your system.

Does drinking a gallon of milk a day counteract the leaching?

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:55 pm**

Coffee is an amazing, life-sustaining drink. I am evil without it. Also, I wouldn't go NEAR Ho before he has his java. He might show you his chili dog!

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:19 pm**

Christian wrote: Does drinking a gallon of milk a day counteract the leaching?

I guess that would depend on how much coffee you drink.
I personally drink coffee because I like the taste of it. Caffeine has never given me that 'buzz' or awake feeling so it is easier for me to limit myself to a cup or two a day. Unlike some folks who need their java, or else.
When I was a 'hard-core' coffee-r it used to wreck havoc on my stomach and since then I cut it with milk/cream. (Maybe that counters the robbing of calcium too?) Yeah, right.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:28 pm**

Christian wrote: Does drinking a gallon of milk a day counteract the leaching?

I'm not absolutely sure, but I thought it both leached calcium out of your system and prevented absorption of calcium into your bloodstream.