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From: jmg@houxk.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: food and health followup 3
Message-ID: <55@houxk.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Aug-83 11:15:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: houxk.55
Posted: Fri Aug 12 11:15:31 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Aug-83 19:39:21 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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	I received the following inquiry regarding my coffee (caffeine)
consumption at the time that I suffered a heart attack and was suffering
from arthritis:

	To: houxk!jmg
	Re: coffee, etc.
	How much coffee, etc were you consumming/day to
	bring on those effects?
	F. Carlson	pyuxqq!fmc	eagle!fmc

	To the best of my recollection my coffee schedule went something
like this:
	1 cup at home or at work first thing in morning
	1 cup at morning break
	1 cup in morning after break
	1 or 2 cups at lunch
	1 cup at afternoon break
	1 cup in afternoon after break
	1 or 2 cups with supper at home
total:  7 to 9 cups a day (average weekday)

	However, I started to experience a gradual increase in arthritic
symptoms before I got on this schedule. Previously I was usually a tea
drinker until I experienced indigestion from tea and switched to coffee.
I didn't think that this rate of consumption was unusual because I assumed
like many others that coffee really wasn't harmful.

					Joe McGhee
					Bell Labs, Holmdel, N.J.