Coffee is beneficial for Crohn's Disease

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So as you can tell by the title, i made this for coffee drinkers. Every website ive read says coffee is great for you, It lowers the risk of Parkinson's disease and Type 2 diabetes. It mediates depression. Also 1 cup has about 1,300 mg antioxidants and 1 cup of strawberries has about 5,300 mg but its still pretty good for a drink. But ive also read that its not great for people with IBD, and acid reflux. But when i drink it it just like calms everything down. I have 0 pain what-so-ever and no nausea or anything. So whats the story with coffee and you?
 
I'm addicted to McDonald's coffee. I limit myself to only one cup per day. I don't notice a difference in my D if I drink it or not. I do have trouble with caffeine and high doses of prednisone...it makes me very jittery?
 
I just drink it as an occasional treat. Most times it's OK, sometimes it does give me reflux, and sometimes it does prompt a rather urgent reaction in me bowels. Having said all that, I'm going out in a few minutes for a double shot!
 
I have a coffee with breakfast. I enjoy the taste and I feel it helps 'get things going' in the morning. I don't find the caffeine has a negative affect on my condition at all.
 
I have had to cut down on the coffee - in combo with the steroids I get VERY excitable! I find I want to do everything at breakneck speed, get jittery, and have the annoying habit of talking VERY LOUD!

If I need to get loads done though, I head to Costa!

Lishyloo!
 
I'm a coffee snob. I absolutely despise coffee for the masses. The watered down stuff you get in most fast food restaurants and gas stations. Coffee isn't meant to be nasty bitter and see through. Usually that means it's got too much water and has pulled out a lot of other bitter flavors from the grounds. I don't like the canned coffees (Folgers, Maxwell House), they just tend to taste funky or stale to me unless the can is just opened, except for maybe the Cafe Du Monde brand. Got a taste for coffee with chicory and raw sugar down in N'awlins and haven't found the proper ratio to make it myself like I had it down there. The Cafe Du Monde coffee is the closest I can get without moving south.

I get whole bean and grind it myself. My absolute favorite brands to get are Crimson Cup brand or, when I can get down there, Whole Foods brand. Whole Foods roasts it right in the store in small batches daily, so you can go in and get an Extra Dark French that's been roasted that day or the day before. The darker the better for me too. I love the dark roasts. I have a French Press to take best advantage of my dark roasts, though I do use my coffee pot frequently and grind the beans as far as I can safely get them to work in the pot.

If the coffee doesn't taste rich and have a certain feel in the mouth you can keep it.

I'm a massive fan of Good Eats on the Food Network and Loved the coffee episode. He's got a lot of good info on there as to why a lot of coffee people make is bitter. The more water to beans you add, the more bitter resins and stuff that you don't want from the beans get pulled out. It's the same problem as over soaking and squeezing out tea leaves. He also has a good tea episode too BTW.

I drink three cups throughout the day, most days, but if I travel, it could be more. I get heartburn all the time. Eating bread gives me heartburn. Heck, drinking water gives me heartburn, so if the coffee gives me heartburn, I couldn't honestly tell.
 
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I enjoy coffee but do not have it everyday. Sometimes it is fine and sometimes causes major D.
 
Thanks for the discussion about coffee. I, too, am a coffee snob. I drink coffee everyday. I try to limit it to mornings, doesn't always work. To Dan, glad to hear someone else enjoys a good cup of coffee and chicory. It's the best. I am a native New Orleanian and was weaned on the stuff.
Sometimes I have side effects from coffee, but it's just not right to give up everything :)
 
I work at a coffee shop (not Starbucks) we sell Seattle's Best... which is essentially Starbucks coffee but I do feel it tastes a lot better. I quite enjoy a cup of coffee now (used to hate it) and I actually like the Folgers French Vanilla blend... probably trash to you coffee snobs! But anywho, I gotta have the flavored stuff.
 
yeah. I personally can't stand Starbucks and never drink it. It always tastes burned IMO. Seattle's Best has been around for quite a while, and is some pretty good stuff. :)
 
Oh, and they are owned by Starbucks now. Starbucks likes to buy up all competition. heh I just looked it up to make sure I was corrrect, and I was off a year or so, but here's the info. Seattle's Best has been around since 1970, and Starbucks bought them in 2003. They still just aren't the same in my opinion.
 
I drink decaf...mostly americano's from Starbucks...and I LOVE them. I can't have caffeine because of the D...but decaf does the trick!! Once I got past the withdrawal headaches, the switch from caf to decaf was nice!
 
I can't stand decaf. Yeah, and the reason why is also mentioned on that Good Eats episode. Find me a decaf that tastes as good as regular and I'll switch. It's not the caffeine I'm after, it's the taste and I haven't found a decaf yet that tastes any good. Then again, I have pretty extreme taste buds.

And yeah, Starbucks. Their coffee's alright, but not anything to die over. I'm more irritated with their pushing out of smaller companies and their "Starbucks on every corner" mentality, which is why I don't buy it. McDonalds is on every corner too. Don't mean it's the best food around.
 
I love Alton... sometimes when people are cooking and I see them do something wrong I'll go "Well Alton says..." On my vacation with Bruce's family last week they made blueberry pancakes and they mixed the blueberries into the mix... and I made her pick them out (she had only thrown like 3 in there) and I told her what Alton said... they also weren't cooking them at the right temperature and I told them that... his stepdad made fun of me for it...
 
Yeah Dan, I have a lot of issues with Starbucks as well. And I've heard a few horror stories. Just because they came from here doesn't mean all Washingtonians like them. I only drink their coffee if I'm COMPLETELY desperate, and even then I add flavor to it (usually peppermint) so it masks the nasty flavor. haha
 
I moved away from the whole caffeine thing when I had a long hosp. stay once but I can't leave coffee. Love it....YUMMY! I really like Starbucks but it really depends on who the barrista is. Seattle's Best is one of my favorite. It was one of Washington's early companies but was bought out by Starbucks years ago:( Thats probably why you order from them. I think they seem to still brew or roast the way SBC did in the beginnig...Thats is why it is probably still soooo good!
 
I love coffee as well but agree with Becky - sometimes its good sometimes heavy D, never know but doesnt curb the love for it :) I limit to one cup a day if I have a craving just incase now, hope that helps.
 
for those Canucks out there I like my Timmies. give me a xl dbl dbl please! I do live in the coffee capital of Canada with more coffee shops per capita then any other city. Go Tim Horton's!!!
 
I drink the regular plain old coffee. I do not care for anything else. I guess I am happy with that, since it is much cheaper.

I do drink way too much at times. I switch off with Green and Black Tea, but I still prefer Coffee.

Dan
 
Caffeine, even at quite low doses gives me terrible D, headaches, nausea and jitters. It's such a shame because I love coffee :(
 
While in remission I could drink coffee with no problem, for a while I was drinking about a pot of coffee a day and it never bothered me. Now I really have to be careful and I try to avoid it as much as possible. I do like having a mocha frappuccino from time to time, but I have to really, really want one. I like to nickname them laxative slurpees :shifty-t:
 
Plain coffee makes my tum hurt pretty significantly, so I don't drink that anymore, and caffeinated is much better than decaf, always, imo.

So I have taken to drinking soy lattes (espresso with soy milk), man are they wonderful. AND I drink them almost everyday, I have C so I 'need' it to help me go in the morning. It does make my lower bowel ache a bit with the urge up till I go, but (most days) gets me moving. I am afraid to go without too many days in a row just in case I stop going! But I love me some soy latte!
 
Yeah, coffee is at the top of my no-no list. The heat, acid and caffeine together makes my Crohn's rage. if I am getting a cup of coffee at the Dunkin's drive-through, I might as well just keep on driving to the hospital.
 
I too am a "coffee snob" who just about exclusively orders coffee from Peets. I believe they're based in California; their coffee is the best I've tasted. I drink several cups a day and rarely have any situations. I'm not a fan of Starbucks, prefer Caribou and here in Michigan we have Timmy Ho Ho's (as my girls call it) but I'm not a fan of their warm drinks. Coffee rarely gives me the jitters and drinking it at night actually helps me sleep!
 
Jefferson said:
I too am a "coffee snob" who just about exclusively orders coffee from Peets. I believe they're based in California; their coffee is the best I've tasted. I drink several cups a day and rarely have any situations. I'm not a fan of Starbucks, prefer Caribou and here in Michigan we have Timmy Ho Ho's (as my girls call it) but I'm not a fan of their warm drinks. Coffee rarely gives me the jitters and drinking it at night actually helps me sleep!
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Youre in Michigan Jefferson? Me too. I LOVE Beaner's, now called Biggby's, I like Caribou too but their soy milk is not as good :) Never heard of Timmy Ho Ho's....wait Hortons? No...hmm, idk. Might have a question or two for you but not here amongst the coffee. Welcome to the forum!
 
I drink about 6-8 cups of coffee a day. I don't get excited or jacked up from it, but I don't know how'd I act without it. It's more of a habit for me really.
 

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