Coffee..about 1678, coffee spread from Spain to France to England, and in fifty years had become such a fad that all over Europe, little shops sold cups of coffee, tea, and later (about 1600) added tobacco and pipes. It was a convivial if totally male set of habits and places to enjoy them.

Coffee followed the early Americans to Virginia, and the settlers thought it more important to have a coffee house than a courthouse, so built one before Williamsburg, Virginia's State House was built.

Fairly recently, the usual high consumption of coffee was doubled or tripled by the incidence of 'fashionable' coffee houses all over America, creating a new industry from the old beverage. With the addition of many pleasant but questionable flavors and additives.

COFFEE IS GOOD AND BAD FOR US

Let's define what we mean by "a cuppa". For this essay, "a cuppa" is 6 ounces. And the coffee is just coffee, and has been brewed in an old fashioned way.

First, we roast the berries or buy them roasted. We then grind the roasted berries in a hand-grinder or power-grinder.
Or we skip all of those steps and open a can of, yep, Brazilian! Or Bolivian! Or other!

We then put one heaping tablespoon of our coffee for each cup in water and bring it to a boil, allowing it to boil for one minute, then pouring the contents through a proper filter to get the unwanted dregs out of it.

The we drink it or pollute it with cream, flavors, etc.etc.

This writer takes his TWO cups (6 ounce cups) at the beginning of his day, and that's it.

WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT COFFEE?

For a healthy individual, everything about coffee without additives is good. It wakes you. It envelops you in a feeling of ability. It dissolves the fumes of the night. You are ready to face the day until the next two cups tomorrow morning. There is absolutely no threat for you as a 12 ounce per day coffee drinker who adds nothing to his brew.

Whats more, the real drug effect of caffeine in coffee ,that is coffee without any additives is a form of slowing down fears, allowing a mind to focus on the day's problems,and additional indications of well-being familiar in more dangerous drugs but safe here for healthy people.

WHAT IS BAD ABOUT COFFEE?

An unhealthy person may not drink coffee at all. That is, if your lack of health is connected in any way to your heart, stomach, bowel, or brain. Any unusual problems in those places would be exacerbated and made dangerous by

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