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tmoertel
on June 22, 2020
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Health Effects of Coffee
I have a similar but more general theory: coffee is a mild stressor. People in poor health can't afford the extra stress and avoid coffee.
pphysch
on June 22, 2020
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It's also quite a bitter taste and coffee-drinkers may have more flexible palates and diverse (generally more healthy) diets as a confounding factor.
ip26
on June 22, 2020
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Rather than calling their palates more 'diverse' I would just observe that many foods we know to be healthy exhibit bitter, astringent, tart, sour, earthy, etc flavors.
reinkaos
on June 24, 2020
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Also this additional stress could elicit some kind of supercompensation by the body via hormesis.
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