I've become a little concerned that I may need to cut back on coffee and tea. I drink maybe 5-7 cups a day, combined.

I'm concerned mainly about sugar consumption. And I may have a ginger ale the same day.

I'm not diabetic, but don't want to become so. My late father was a diabetic. No, he wasn't overweight, and neither am I.

Also, are you aware that coffee is thought to keep Alzheimer's and other dementia at bay, and promotes heart health?

Tea contains strong antioxidants that kill free radical cells that can cause diabetes, heart trouble, and cancer. And I like it! It has about half the caffeine of coffee, but that may or may not be what helps coffee to provide its own benefits.

So, how many cups on an average day do YOU drink of each?
Do you drink tea in a cup at all, or just as an iced beverage?

And how much of your intake is decaffeinated?

I drink a half a pot of STRONG, highly caffeinated coffee a day. Also a few cans of Diet Coke Lime. I hafta cut out caffeine fairly early in the day or I can't sleep.
'Course, it's 0228 right now and I got up because I couldn't fall asleep. Haven't had caffeine since about 1300 yesterday.
You can read studies on coffee consumption. One highly respected researcher will say it is great for your health. The next will say it will kill you dead tomorrow.
I' ain't gonna stop drinkin' it. I ain't got a pulse until my second cup.
Jim

I'll drink maybe 2-3 cups of black coffee during the day.I like the K-Cups.Each cup of coffee is as good as the first one.

Summer means less coffee and more beer or water.
Winter means more coffee and even some hot chocolate.

What I drink usually hinges on what the taste buds want or what I'm eating.

None at all.

How dare you!!! Moderators, remove this man from the forums!!!

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Don

I drink a 24 oz cup on the way to work, then after that it depends on the weather ... summer = cold caffeinated beverage, winter = coffee.

Plus the wife MAKES me drink coffee on my days off, so I don't "sleep all day."

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Don

2 12oz cups of home-brewed before and en route to work.

I usually drink 4-5 cups of strong black coffee a day plus a fair amount
of diet Coke. Never drink tea. I'm not diabetic or overweight but I try
to eat as little sugar as possible. Lots of contradictory "evidence"
presented in articles about the effects of caffeine but I believe it's
beneficial.

just started having one large a day just worry about kidney stones told me to quit 5 hour energy drink . bu t coffee in moderation is ok lots of water

When I worked shift work my hand was never without a cup.
Since I now live as a normal person and due to a health issue I drink maybe one 20oz. Cup and I throw most of it away.
Coffee just taste like it use to?

3 In the morning, 2 (maybe) between 19-2100, black and won't keep me awake. 20 oz. iced tea usually homebrewed at work. Occasionally I'll realize I've had nothing but coffee, water and beer for the day. That has to stop.

A pot of black no sugar or milk in the morning, and a small glass of orange juice. Water and milk during the day. I never drink pop. I never add sugar or salt to any food.

I have a large cup of coffee in the morning and iced tea during the day. On hot days I can consume over a gallon of tea.

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20-32oz (black)in the morning. 20oz before bed. 3-4 8oz Red Bulls (sugerfree) in between.

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1-2 cups in the morning, with cream, to cover the taste. I see no point at all to decaf. I rarely drink tea. Mostly water, occasionally a diet Dr. Pepper.

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Two to three cups strong coffee in the morning before work. Never used to care for tea but lately have been drinking a bottle of green tea with ginseng and honey, not bad. Once in a while I'll have a Dr. Pepper at lunch.

I only want one more cup.

I generally drink very little coffee, if I do it is decaf. May be three cups a week. Now Tea is a different story. Average close to a gallon a day. The brew I make my self is also decaf. So about 1/2 of what I drink is high-test . I do not use sugar or fake sweeteners. You can really taste the tea flavor with no sugars.

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Three K-cups of black coffee every morning.

A bottle (500 ml.) of diet green tea or else sport drink (zero calories) in the afternoon.

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I don't drink coffee or tea, never have, probably never will. I'm wired enough naturally!

Daily, I drink several cups of strong coffee and some tea.
But no sugar. I don't need no stinking sugar!
I'm already sweet enough!

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The first thing in the morning is a cup of hot tea.

Then coffee enters the picture, the entire day usually is a mixture of either a cup of coffee or tea.

After a meal coffee seems to rule.

I guess I am OK according to the latest findings.
But of course that may change once again in 6 months.

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I don't drink coffee. (just don't care for it, crazy I know.) Now sweet tea (iced tea for all of you not from the South. ) I can drink it by the gallon, but try to have just one or two glasses a day, so about 16-32oz. Oh and it's normally home made, but if bought Bojangles is the best.

I drink 2 cups, black, from my keurig brewer in the mornings. I really enjoy my coffee since going to k-cup style brewer. Tea, half and half with lemonade aka Arnold Palmer has become my most recent addiction. I'll cut way back on the tea come cooler weather.

Coffee - anywhere between two 20 oz in the morning to 3, 4, sometimes 6 - 8 including cappuccino. Sometimes I'll have 4 of them.

Tea - usually 2 cups in the evening. Sometimes green tea. Other times herbal

About 4 black cups in the early a.m. and I usually like a couple of cups in the late afternoon before I go out for evening chores. There is no earthly reason to drink diet soda. That stuff will make you fat.

Decaf? DECAF!!! Drinking decaf is getting all the peeing of regular coffee, but without the pep. I don't see the point. I agree with your taste in tea though, iced tea.

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In the morning, I drink half a cup of hot coffee and half a cup of cold coffee.

Sometimes, I drink decaf coffee or tea in the evening so as not to be kept awake. That's why decaf, when drunk. Sometimes, I drink Rooibos herbal tea then. Twining's has the best blend of that that I've found, but my local grocer quit carrying it. I may have to order from the US importer in (ugh!) New Jersey.

Those 20 oz. cups of coffee mentioned above make me feel better about my intake. My cups are about std. restaurant size.

four(4) twelve oz cups per day, black, real coffee (not decaf), starting in morning and going throughout day. Drink iced tea at lunch and supper. Probably have caffeine in my veins instead of blood.

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Two cups with a little half and half every morning from our Keurig machine. I'm not really awake until the first cup is gone.

I also got hooked on cocoa. I was given a french press and ground cocoa beans as a gift and it makes the best hot chocolate I've ever had. The ground cocoa is kind of expensive but worth the occasional cup on a cold day.

Usually 1-2 cups of hot coffee (touch of cream only please) in the morning. Seldom after 9:00am.

Lunch is typically accompanied by a glass or two of fresh brewed unsweetened iced tea. If not at lunch, then I might have a glass or two with dinner. I pay dearly with lack of sleep if I drink too much caffeine after dinner.

I drink hot tea at night in the winter. It's always decaf, but usually flavored with a shot of something "medicinal".

I drink quite a bit of iced coffee most any time of day and any time of year. I'm ok getting half decaf or full decaf if I'm over my "daily limit". I will add 1/2 a packet of Slenda and a full dose of cream to my iced coffee.

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A good coffee is hard to resist.

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1 cup of tea in the morning with 2 black tea bags and 1 green tea bag. Occasionally I'll have another around noon with just the 2 black tea bags

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Kozmic

Someday try a cup of hot tea with a scoop of strawberry preserve added. You can thank me lata.

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Two 12 ounce cups in the morning, straight, and I'm done for the rest of the day for most of the week. I go to a morning meeting once a week and usually drink a small cup there. No sodas at all except an occasional glass of tonic and lime to ward off leg cramps or if I'm at a party. Rarely drink iced tea; but though I'm a Tennessean living in Kentucky I want it unsweeteded. In cold weather I often like a hot, strong cup of Twinings Irish Breakfast tea. Sometimes I sweeten it and add a little milk, but usually take it straight as well.

My late brother drank a lot of coffee, and swore it helped him sleep.

By the way, the studies of coffee helping to prevent Alzheimer's are interesting; but one of the best ways is to keep exercising the mind. The "use it or lose it" principle can be applied here as well.

One of the things I'm missing most since my brother died a couple of weeks ago is our daily exchange of short parodies of TV commercials, lines from bad B movies, etc. That and creative ways of telling each other affectionately to go do improbable things to ourselves...

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Oh well, what the hell.

My coffee consumption shot way up the last time I tried to quit smoking,so now I still smoke and drink half a pot of Starbucks a day.I vibrate.

I've always had a job where the coffee was hot and fresh. I'm sure I drink a couple pots a day, everyday. The only thing I miss, going from be a LEO to Security at a refinery, is the nice gentlemen in orange coveralls that use to bring it to me. Now I have to get it myself.

I might have one cup of joe in a year--mostly I drink iced tea. I start the morning off with a CHOCOLATE protein drink and 1... 8 oz glass of water--whih helps me when it comes time to doing natures call. then, through the next few hrs--usually between 11:30 AM til about 3PM,illdrink about 40 ounces unsweet iced tea. I cant stand it with suger anymore as it makes my stomach ill--but I use Splenda--and best of all with slpenda--its the only artificial sweetner that des not cause weight gain. After that--about 5-6 times a week--ill drink a Dr. pepper 10, then more water at night. Sometimes--I alternate a bit and use some of theose water flavors like: grape, Strawberry, TEA, and maybe something else.

every day = 4 mugs of coffee at breakfast; 4 mugs of tea at dinner............NO sweetener, NO cream, NO flavoring...........just hot n black......

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Are you eating a lot of potato chips also?

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Doesn't hasta call me Johnson

No! those things are unhealthy

I usually have two big mugs of coffee in the morning.

After that, I suppose I have 3-5 cups of green tea.

I have both plain, with no added sugar.

No coffee or tea, Some water and maybe 4 or 5 beers a week.

For me, it's a large cup of coffee in the morning followed by an 18 oz. travel mug at work (both home-brewed), or a large iced from Dunkin c/o the missus. On weekends, I usually drink a cup or two of English Breakfast tea. (Yorkshire Gold for the win!)

Wife says I'm a caffeine addict. Considering I can't properly "start" my day without it, she may have a point.

Coffee- 1-2 cups daily.
Tea - 1 (if drinking tea that day.)
Favorite tea- Lapsang Suchong, Scottish breakfast, and Highland blends are good too.

I used to be a heavy coffee and tea drinker. Also needed caffeine fixes throughout my workday, usually furnished by high-caffeine soft drinks like Mountain Dew.

My sugar intake was also high...soft drinks, junk food, lots of sugar in coffee (a double whammy there).

No more. In early 2012, I found out I had high blood pressure and an accelerated at-rest heart rate. Not awfully high, but enough to ring the warning bells. So I went caffeine-free. I no longer deliberately ingest caffeine from any source. I'm sure some slips by me, so we'll put the intake at maybe 1%.

Also found out my triglycerides were way too high. So I cut out all soft drinks and all unecessary sugar intake. Within 2-3 months my triglycerides dropped from (gasp!) 340 to 140.

It took me a long time to realize that the brief energy bursts I got from caffeine and the little pleasures I got from eating sugary junk food simply were not worth my health and well being. I realized that a lot of the stuff I ate was just sort of a combination of chemicals and preservatives...just garbage food.

I have not regretted cutting out all that stuff.

No preaching from me, but you really should stop smoking.

I finally got scared enough to stop cold turkey after at least thirty-five years of smoking, perhaps longer. Nothing bad had happened to me, I just realized I'd probably shortened my life by at least ten years. That was almost four years ago, and I haven't picked one up since. Frankly, I hope I stopped in time.

Oh, and I've saved probably an average of at least $2,000 a year. That'd buy you a really nice Smith & Wesson. Or a totally cool reloading setup. Or a whole lot of ammo. Or a...well, you get the idea, don't you?

This link might help you.

Being from Colorado I didn't dare ask what he was smokin.

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Use moderation, drink till your hands shake then have only one more cup