Comments on: Coffee: Friend or Foe? Guest Post by Craig Fear

By: Terry Ballard

Terry Ballard — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:29:51 +0000

I’ve been on the Paleo diet for two years now, and one of the things I noticed early on was that I no longer wanted or needed coffee in the middle of the day. One or two cups in the morning was all I needed. I started replacing that with lots of water. The bottled water habit was getting expensive too, until I replaced it with a permanent water filtration bottle called a Bobble.

By: Margaret Floyd

Margaret Floyd — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:12:35 +0000

Great tips Diane & Trina!

By: Trina

Trina — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:47:27 +0000

Something I’ve just been turned on to and am awaiting a local coming-soon resource, is something called Bulletproof Coffee. Supposedly the highest quality coffee, and people then add a rich, grass-fed butter to it. Sounds very intriguing and apparently something you won’t stray from once you start!

Another coffee tip that I’ve used is that I water down the coffee with hot water or just use fewer grounds when I’d brew it at home. My favorite part of the coffee is the cream, so the weekened coffee flavor was just fine for me, just don’t take away my cream!

By: Diane Briese

Diane Briese — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:00:34 +0000

Another option to make your coffee less unhealthy is to drink cold-brewed coffee. This way of processing decreases acids and caffeine and tasted fantastic – very smooth. The easiest way to accomplish this is with a “Toddy” system. You end up with a carafe of coffee concentrate – just add hot water at a ratio that suits your taste buds. I’d rather just give it up completely, but just enjoy it so much and have so few other vices.

By: Margaret Floyd

Margaret Floyd — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:15:59 +0000

Great points, Rachel, and I agree wholeheartedly. I’m now actually a fan of decaf (swiss water process only) and my “need” for coffee is more of a liking of the taste rather than an addiction. Thanks for the additional links and reading!

By: Rachel J.

Rachel J. — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:28:30 +0000

You could also consider Julia Ross’s The Mood Cure, supplementing amino acids to help rebuild depleted neurotransmitters. People who crave coffee and/or can’t function well without it are using the caffeine to artificially and detrimentally stimulate catecholamine, adrenaline, and noradrenaline production, over-taxing and exhausting the adrenal glands. If you’re able to provide adequate neurotransmitters then your addiction/craving will cease. You can check out CheeseSlave’s blog post about curing her coffee addiction here: http://www.cheeseslave.com/how-to-quit-coffee/ She has a few more posts about tweaking her own Mood Cure program and how she’s benefited. It was enough to convince me to try and in only a few days I’ve seen a huge decrease in my craving for chocolate and carbs. Never really had an issue with caffeinated coffee, made me too jittery, but I could totally relate with my own chocolate addiction. Now chocolate tastes nice but I don’t need it to get through the afternoon.

By: lydia

lydia — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:57:45 +0000

I think this is good advice! I quit coffee 3 years ago and only just now started enjoying a cup on the weekends as a treat. I choose organic 75% decaf (the swiss water process kind) and I when I have it, I enjoy the heck out of it. I can’t drink caffeine it makes me get all racey and jittery. I do have to say getting it ground is my only option as I don’t have a grinder at the mo, so I put it in the freezer to preserve it and keep it from going rancid etc……