Today, on the Morning Update, the subject is one of my two favorite beverages. One is pictured in the featured image of every installment of this program, and the other is beer. Water’s okay, I guess – and you need it to make beer and coffee – but good news for you, me, Dunkin, Starbucks, and the rest. Coffee just got another thumbs up, at least for now.
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Ep 231 links:
- https://granitegrok.com/blog/2024/02/wef-coffee-is-bad-for-the-planet-me-wef-is-bad-for-the-planet-and-the-people-living-on-it
- https://granitegrok.com/blog/2023/01/the-u-of-q-scolds-coffee-drinkers-for-dooming-the-planet
- https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/08/if-coffee-is-racist-then-so-is-the-democrat-party
- https://granitegrok.com/blog/2018/04/morning-cup-cancer-court-says-coffee-california-must-carry-warning-label-starbucks-declare-sanctuary
- https://granitegrok.com/blog/2018/06/has-california-decided-that-coffee-doesnt-cause-cancer-after-all
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/how-the-science-changed-some-doctors-minds-about-coffee-6067821
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Edited Transcript:
Welcome to your Monday, August 3rd, 2026 morning update. Coffee. I’ve been drinking it since I was six, which means it’s 50-something years
Might explain why I was hyper as a child. Interestingly enough, though, despite the coffee, or because the actual definition to describe my condition was that I was a boy. Had nothing to do with coffee. Boys were just like that, at least until the education establishment and the women who ran it got tired of their shit and decided to medicate them. And here we are today, which has absolutely nothing to do with coffee.
Coffee is huge. Two point five billion cups a day or something obnoxious like that. It’s consumed all over the globe.
It’s incredibly popular in mostly white European countries that are trying desperately to become not-so-white European countries, but people are still drinking coffee.
Here in the United States, we drink an awful lot of coffee. I drink an awful lot of coffee, and I was inspired to talk about it because the American Heart Association has had some interesting change of heart on the subject of coffee. But before we get there, I wanted to just review some of the bad press coffee has gotten recently.
If you search the word coffee on Granitegrok.com, you will get something in the neighborhood of six hundred pieces of content. It’s not that much really. We have close to sixty thousand pieces of content. So that represents roughly one percent of the total. But search coffee, and you’ll find an awful lot of information,
Like this, for example, from February first, 2024, World Economic Forum: coffee is bad for the planet. My response: the WEF is bad for the planet.
A Swiss banker and World Economic Forum agenda contributor, Herbert Keller, said coffee that we drink emits between 15 and 20 tons of CO2 per ton of coffee. Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere, not to be confused with the emissions of rambling Swiss bankers every time they open their mouths.
The University of Quebec likewise jumps on this bandwagon, saying global coffee consumption has been increasing steadily for 30 years, and the pollution resulting from the preparation of coffee at home is just the tip of the iceberg.
Coffee, of course, is systemically racist. They say that it is a drink by black people for black people that has become a pillar of white supremacist capitalism.
I don’t know, coffee’s been around for a really, really long time. And just because white people found a way to use it to enhance the free market, liberty, and Western civilization doesn’t mean brown people can’t join the fun.
Coffee, also under attack in California constantly. On Wednesday, a Los Angeles judge, this was a Wednesday in April of 2018, ruled in favor of a nonprofit that sued 90 coffee companies over claims that they had failed to comply with the state law that requires businesses to warn consumers about chemicals in their products that could cause cancer. Reuters reported.
Two months later, the state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, which assesses environmental health risks, now says that there is no significant cancer risk associated with the chemicals that occur naturally in brewed coffee.
Probably because the coffee industry is hundreds of billions of dollars a year and somebody picked up a phone and said, Are you crazy?
All of which brings me to this.
For years, doctors told patients with heart conditions to give up coffee. I don’t know which years nobody ever told me to give up coffee. Now the American Heart Association says otherwise. The new scientific statement finds that up to five cups a day are safe for most adults and may actually be protective.
That’s interesting. I drink up to five cups a day.
Over the past decade, the evidence has steadily shifted away from the old belief that coffee is harmful for the heart. We are quite surprised at how the majority of the data seem to favor protective effects across a variety of cardiovascular risk factors and quite different cardiovascular disease outcomes.
The statement’s key takeaway is that up to five cups, eight ounces each, are safe for most adults. Filtered coffee, including drip and pour over, may be better for cholesterol than unfiltered methods such as French press or Turkish coffee.
The AHA is, of course, still obsessed with cholesterol, which I have increasingly believed is nonsense, but we’re not there yet with them. You talk to your doctor and make your own decisions.
Black coffee is best. Sugar, cream, and flavored syrups likely cancel out some of the benefits. Energy drinks are not the same as coffee,
And they can raise blood pressure and spike your insulin, which is really bad for you.
Most of the findings are observational, meaning they show a strong link, but don’t prove that coffee causes the benefits.
Coffee does cause a lot of benefits. It employs thousands, if not millions, of people and enriches cultures all across the globe, including the ones where all the coffee comes from.
Coffee’s awesome.
That’s it for today. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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