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A few weeks
ago, I wrote a piece on alcohol, which stirred a few emotions amongst some
friends. Alcohol is something I can quite happily give a miss, as it really
isn't that close to my heart. So I thought I'd face up to something that is a
little closer to home. Barista Course Sydney
COFFEE.
Mmmmmmm. I only have to walk past a coffee shop and the aroma wafting out past
my nostrils gets me practically drooling like Homer Simpson over ch-o-c-o-late.
It's fair to
say the latte lifestyle is ingrained in me. Sitting around and catching up with
your mates, whilst sipping away on your favorite beverage (mine's flat white,
extra hot, made with love). What a great way to spend half hour. And judging by
the five coffee shops within a 100m of me (I'm in one writing this),
understandably it's ingrained in many others too. Bondi Training Sydney
I've just
had the barista tell me that they sell on average about 800-1200 cups a day! So
it's easy to say I'm not the only coffee lover around here. What amazes me more
is that, I contribute on average, about two of those cups. At $3.50 a pop
that's $49 a week, and $2,548 a year! There's a return flight to the other side
of the world right there. Ouch.
We always recognise coffee, or even more so caffeine, as a bit of a pick me up. It clears
the foggy cloud hanging above your head first thing in the morning, and then a
mid afternoon fix to get you over the finish line for the day. Interestingly
too, caffeine is often touted as a weight loss stimulant.
Firstly, I
think we can all agree that if you keep things in perspective, the body copes
well. Ie. You eat wholesome and natural most meals, but throw in a pizza once
in a while, no problem. But it's when the scales start to tip the other way the
body starts to give out.
I'm the
first to defend coffee, as I love the taste and the whole culture that goes
with it, so I feel I can justify the odd cup, but I know those scales have
started to tip, which has now led me to start digging a little further and
finding out what the effects are of a regular caffeine hit are, and this is
what I came up with.
When you
have a cup of coffee, it initiates uncontrolled neurons firing in the brain,
which triggers the pituitary gland to secrete a hormone that tells your adrenal
gland to wake up and release adrenalin.
So this
response now puts you in 'fight or flight' mode, which I'm sure you're all
aware of, and of course you can see the great benefits of this 'fight or
flight' safety mechanism that's embedded in each and every one of us like a
loaded gun, ready to go off at the slightest sniff of threat or danger, while
we sit in our office chair or the cafe checking our emails first thing in the
morning.
With this in
mind, your body has just been put on red alert, with the biggest danger you'll
probably have is spilling your cuppa or writing a typo.
So you may
get a bit of a lift from this, (as it generally raises blood sugar too, which
is counter productive for weight loss), but of course, you come down with a
crash later on in the day. Barista Course Sydney
Consistently
doing this day in day out will put undue stress on your adrenal glands, forcing
your glands to secrete when there's not much there to give, which exhausts them
over time, and can contribute to mood swings, depression, fatigue etc.
