Coffee and a Diaper Please!

Coffee and a Diaper Please!

 

   

 

 

I do not drink coffee. I have always likened coffee shops to the Opium dens in London during the 1800's that existed on every street corner. 

And even though some of you might consider this to be an extreme  analogy I have personally witnessed terribly addicted friends who cannot function without coffee have headaches and freak out emotionally if the extra shot is not forthcoming.

I have also found studies that support my suspicions and suggest that drinking coffee  is responsible for bladder leakage, and I think that's why Adult Diaper companies like Depends are seeing dramatic increases in the sales of their product.

 

According to Forbes magazine:

Adult Diapers are gaining popularity. Big time! I suggest we consider that the increase may  be        linked to coffee consumption.

In  five years ending in 2020, sales are expected to grow by almost 50%. At that pace, Bloomberg reports that adult diapers—products aimed not at seniors or babies, but mostly at middle-aged women—could overtake the baby diaper market in a decade.

 And you ask. “Hey Kay, what’s your theory.

 Are you ready?

1. I believe that coffee irritates the bladder and this irritation causes leakage.

 2.  Dr. Karl Gruber from a university in Austria published in a study done in March/2015 linking coffee to bladder cancer.

 3. Medical News Today also links coffee to bladder leakage in men.

 4. On the flip side, Scientific America says that coffee reduced the risk of bladder cancer.

Don’t you love the Internet? What every you want to believe there’s a fact for that!

 

QUESTION: Which one is fake news?

 I guess it boils down to what you WANT to believe, and I believe that adult diapers and  coffee consumption are linked. Which one do you choose?

 I was prompted to write this article (because I don't get paid) when just this morning I came across something on Goggle News/CNN that was right up my alley. Some Scientists have also linked coffee to bladder cancer and it's being taken seriously in the US.

(How many chimps were tortured by coffee being poured down their throats for how many years until they got cancer? Probably hundreds. May I suggest you take that guilt and channel it by making a small donation to Save the Chimps.org). 

On the other hand, the Lyon based IARC concluded that there was inadequate evidence to suggest that coffee might cause cancer.

Despite that discrepancy,  California coffee shops may have to put a warning label on their cups or visible signs on the counter. Yeah! The Rainforests can be saved!

Roasting coffee beans creates acrylamide, a chemical linked to cancer in rodents. A California judge will soon decide if California coffee shops will be forced to warn customers about a possible cancer risk linked to their morning jolt of java. (CNN). They will have to either post it on their cups, like cigarettes or have a visible sign on the counter.  Wait! Didn't  the tobacco companies have a similar experience?

A lawsuit first filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2010 by the nonprofit Council for Education and Research on Toxins targets several companies that make or sell coffee, including Starbucks, 7-Eleven and BP. The suit alleges that the defendants "failed to provide clear and reasonable warning" that drinking coffee could expose people to acrylamide.

So, grab a box of  Adult Diapers with your next triple shot latte extreme and enjoy!

Thanks for reading,

K