Thursday, May 15, 2008

Coffee: Good 4 Somethin'



Drinking coffee is bad for your health. The high concentrations of caffeine cause the body's central nervous and metabolic processes to speed up - all too rapidly. I suspect we owe this to the intense roasting process coffee beans endure while making their way to the grinding mill.

The processing practices used to concoct hot coffee are extremely unnatural, similar in style to the manufacture of cocaine from the coca plant. Therefore, coffee mimics the health degrading effects of similar stimulant drugs. Coffee is highly addictive and can cause hyperactivity, restlessness, twitching, sweating, paranoia, dehydration, and migraine headaches.

For this reason, I am a huge proponent of raw chocolate. Raw chocolate is barely processed, contains lo-levels of caffeine, and has an intense amount of health supportive qualities. So what can we do with all those wonderfully aromatic, yet highly toxic coffee beans?

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