Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1901 — MODERATE COFFEE-DRINKING. [ARTICLE]

MODERATE COFFEE-DRINKING.

Medical Opinions *• to the Injariowoneas of ths Baverage. The inhabitants of tha United States consume annually, statistics show, 750,000,000 pounds of coffee, and as there are about 75,000,000 inhabitants, each of them has to his credit ten pounds in the course of the year. Notwithstanding this, a wave of fear sweeps over the country every little while, and the coffee drinkers lift up their voices and say: “Are we not harming our health with drinking so much coffee?” The subject has lately been discussed by a number of medical societies. Physicians are pretty generally agreed that the moderate consumption of coffee Is not injurious, and “moderate consumption” they define as one cup at breakfast, one at noon, and one In the evening. Coffee taken plain, without either cream or sugar, they say is less harmful than the sweetened cafe-au-lait, or milk coffee, which fermenting, is bad for the digestive organs. Smokers are better off with coffee than without it, as tobacco, being a narcotic, weakens the heart's action, while coffee, a stimulant, strengthens it, so that the heart of the smoking coffee drinker does not vary, as a rule, from the heart of him who has neither the one habit nor the other. The smoker who does not drink coffee has usually a weak heart. The disciples of the no-breakfast faith say that one cup of coffee between two cups of hot water in the morning is good for the health—Philadelphia Record.