December 2, 2011

HEALTH ISSUES RELATED TO COFFEE

“I have never had a cup of cof­fee and do not rec­om­mend it.” Dr. Patri­cia Bragg

In the video below, Patri­cia Bragg’s good friend John McDougall, M.D. talks about the health issues asso­ci­ated with drink­ing coffee.

This is what Dr. Paul Bragg has to say about drink­ing cof­fee and tea:

Cof­fee and Tea Are Drugs:

They are drugs as surely as are the pow­er­ful poi­sons, the only dif­fer­ence being that they are slower in their action. Caf­feine, which is found in cof­fee, will wreck the ner­vous sys­tem just as far as mor­phine though it takes a lit­tle longer.

Like many drugs, caf­feine has a stim­u­lat­ing effect on the ner­vous sys­tem, with the same ulti­mate reac­tion of depres­sion and nerve exhaus­tion lead­ing to com­pli­cated diseases.

Tea also con­tains tan­nin, which hard­ens the tis­sues and veins and has other harm­ful effects on the system.

You do not have to drug your body if you eat live, nat­ural food. When you are in good health, the nat­ural food is all the stim­u­la­tion nec­es­sary, and leaves no reac­tion of depression.

There are how­ever, sev­eral sub­sti­tutes for cof­fee and tea. Mint tea is, I believe the finest. I drink it reg­u­larly myself in pref­er­ence to all other hot drinks. Pos­tum is an accept­able sub­sti­tute. i do not approve of decaf­feinated drinks.