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Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk (news.harvard.edu)
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[–] 7 points 9 months ago (12 children)

How does any form of “labor” not fit that criterion?

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Yeah that doesn't make sense. More like if the people drinking 3-4 cups a day are doing mental work vs physical work

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Im not convinced that picking Amazon packages, operating heavy machinery, doing data entry, or copy editing would have vastly differing performance changes from coffee consumption.

    However…

    I would imagine that an office worker might have more ready access to coffee, such as a communal coffee maker, than someone with less sedentary workspace.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I think the person is more of a deciding factor than the work. I drink a minimum of 6 a day and don't notice much, but my partner can't drink a sip of coffee without projectile vomiting and can only manage a can of monster over the course of a full day.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    but my partner can't drink a sip of coffee without projectile vomiting

    Well tell them to stop mixing their Ayahuasca in with their morning coffee.

    I used to but boy teams meetings used to be really hard with you were going into another realm

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Your partner might have something else going on. Have they mentioned it to a doctor?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's a psychosomatic reaction due to an experience they had as a toddler. They also really hate the taste and smell of it generally. So they aren't really missing out.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Finally, someone consistent. It’s so weird that so many people love the smell of coffee despite hating the taste. I don’t get it but I’m on team “coffee love” but can respect someone who puts their all into not loving it

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I believe surgeons, dentists, and people who do similar small-scale hands-on work, like precision soldering, avoid coffee, because it makes for shaky (but alert!) hands. There are likely enough others that I'm not thinking of.

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