Resolutions - Is Coffee *Actually* Healthy?
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Is there anything better than a piping hot cup of coffee on a frigid winter day, or the first cold brew of a beautiful summer? For a lot of us… likely not. Coffee is the way we kick off a day, pick up an afternoon, and rehash the work week with a friend on the weekend. Besides saving us an untold amount of cash, is there any health benefit to giving up coffee? Or is it actually making us live longer? Today we talk to Professor Rob Van Dam from George Washington University. Caf, decaf, or no-caf: what science tells us about coffee, caffeine, and health.
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, today is the episode that is going to make me or break me. |
| 0:06.4 | Uh-oh. |
| 0:07.4 | This episode may be the most important episode of this entire year. |
| 0:12.4 | I mean, I guess we've only had four episodes technically because it's like the beginning |
| 0:15.4 | of the year, but you guys get what I mean. |
| 0:17.2 | Okay, so what are we talking about today? |
| 0:19.5 | Eddie, I have been a proud Starbucks Gold member since the wee young age of 15. |
| 0:25.8 | We're doing an episode on Starbucks, our in-depth look into capitalism. |
| 0:30.0 | Eddie, no, we are doing an episode on my life's blood, my most favorite beverage of all time, |
| 0:36.0 | my holy grail. |
| 0:37.3 | The thing that I wrote my college essay on today's episode is on coffee. |
| 0:43.6 | You got into Harvard with a cup of coffee? |
| 0:46.1 | Um, I got into Harvard with an extraordinarily structured, beautifully worded, I'm just |
| 0:52.1 | doing it guys. |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah, it was an essay on coffee. |
| 0:54.1 | I thought it was pretty funny, but like, it was an essay on coffee. |
| 0:56.7 | So what was it about? |
| 0:57.9 | It doesn't matter what it was about. |
| 0:58.9 | It had coffee and it, okay, it was mostly about coffee, but one can say I'm extremely attached |
| 1:03.2 | to coffee. |
| 1:04.2 | I love it. |
| 1:05.2 | I've had it for forever. |
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