Far Out

In the past week, I had a dream about cows being mass slaughtered and boy was it unpleasant.
And just yesterday, I had another peculiar dream involving certain schoolmates, certain friends, a certain building and a certain someone.
Certainly silly.

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On Friday, there was a mini argument regarding the health benefits/risks that coffee brings.
As a coffee addict, I was all ready to dismiss whatever Hamidah said about coffee.

Hamidah: Coffee will make you fat!
Me: I drink lots per day and I'm not fat! At least not yet... Anyway who told you all that?
Hamidah: My mum, and she's a nurse!

There was probably a lot more about coffee that Hamidah warned the coffee-junkies there about, but I couldn't remember because it's hard to understand what she's saying when she's near hysterical (I kid, I kid).

Midah wasn't the only person there with myths to share. Shimah expounded briefly on the dangers of mints when Farhan wanted to pop a mint.

Shimah: Did you know that mints will reduce your sperm count? I'm serious!

Oh and apparently, drinking coffee (or was it eating mints?) reduces egg (or was it sperm?) count. (Damn I'm getting to be so forgetful nowadays.) What the hell. I'm gonna see if there's any truth in what the girls said. I didn't find stuff on mint though, cause I was too lazy but here are some info nuggets on coffee!

#2 - Coffee helps with weight loss
Coffee may help some people to lose weight as it may boost the number of calories you burn per hour by about 4%.

Take that, Midah! :D

#2 - Coffee does not equate to bad sperms
A recent Brazilian study showed that consumption of coffee promotes better sperm mobility - and now studies are in progress to determine whether caffeine can help infertile men.
In addition to helping to make babies, studies have shown that lifelong coffee drinkers usually enjoy sex into their later years as well.

Awesome! Sex in later years? Even more awesome!

#3 - Coffee facilitates the learning process
Coffee helps to improve alertness, attention and wakefulness and by that means it facilitates relevant learning. When the study is tedious, boring and not motivating, coffee helps to give you the energy to study and to make the best of it. The caffeine in your cup of coffee helps you process the information from your study books and the lessons you follow.

Just what we need especially in the light of the approaching prelims and A levels, eh?

Haha, sounds like what I'd do after 4 hours w/o coffee


Hah, I think someone will love this

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Alright, something non-coffee related now.

"Men born between 1949 and 1983 to women in the US who ate a lot of beef while pregnant have significantly lower sperm counts, a new study shows...

Swan's team also contacted the men's mothers and asked them to recall how much beef – along with other meats and foods – they consumed while pregnant with their sons.

Of all the foods these women ate, only beef appeared linked to a significant reduction in sperm count among their sons. Around 18% of men born to women who reported eating more than one serving of beef a day while pregnant had sperm counts below 20 million sperm per millilitre, which is classified as "sub-fertile" by the World Health Organization.

By comparison, men whose mothers ate one or fewer portions of beef per day, on average, had higher sperm counts – just 6% were classified as sub-fertile.

The difference between the two groups remained significant after controlling for many external factors such as smoking, sexually transmitted diseases and the amount of beef that the men themselves ate."

Maybe that explains my dream...
Woohoo you people can't make fun of my no-meat diet now!

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