Can coffee cure what ails you?

By Karen McNew
WSLS10 Anchor
Published: October 29, 2008

I didn’t always think of breakfast as “the most important” meal of the day… I would wake up have a soda or a pop tart and call that a meal… I know people who say they don’t eat before 11 or noon because the thought of eating right after getting up makes them sick… WHAT?!?!?! I basically wake up to eat… sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to eat… my favorite late night snack is cereal.. not sure why but if I wake up hungry I feel like my body must need some food right?

My life’s balance depends a lot on routine.  When I get home from work at night - I prepare the coffee for the next day… get Luckie’s food ready and put it in the fridge (Matt always wakes up early with him so I like to make things as simple as possible) ... I take my make-up off and get ready to go to sleep… then when I wake up - I try to drink a full glass of water… (since I read somewhere that we dehydrate ourselves going without fluids for 7-8 hours at a time) but as I drink the water I am preparing something to eat and pouring a hot cup of coffee that I really can’t wait to enjoy… cream no sugar or sweetener in one of my favorite mugs that doesn’t match a thing in my cabinets… my two favorite cups to use are one that is from the “Life is Good” line - it simply says “love what you do..“ the other is a random mug with bright abstract flowers all over it…

That brings me to my coffee obsession.  I don’t think a morning goes by that I don’t have at least one cup of coffee.. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy… we use the “half-caf.“ kind at home… but I like flavored too… tonight I just bought some Cherry Chocolate Cordial, freshly ground coffee and I can’t wait to try it… there is something soothing about the hot liquid… I especially like the flavors that smell so good you could eat them with a spoon…

We actually had a health story the other day about how… scientists at the University of Colorado gave students cups of hot coffee and iced coffee and found the students with the hot coffee described people as more generous, sociable and good-natured, than those who held the iced coffee.

Perhaps, if we all walked around with a hot cup of coffee the world would be a better place… okay fine java is not the answer to all of our problems but it sure does help.. at least in my case…