I drink iced tea. My Mormon co-workers drink Coke and Dr. Pepper.

The iced tea has less sugar and no carbonation. I guaruntee tea and coffee are better for you than Coke. Despite that they follow the letter of the law vs. common sense.

I don't know about coffee, but i have found a cold beer on a sunday morning on the lawn mower makes the job go better. But you sure can't get those driving by on the highway to wave.

doesn't chocolate and Mnt. Dew contain caffeine? Both are imported to Utah and consumed by the ton in Utah. So what goes? Is it the temperature of the C affine that makes it so bad? And doesn't the word of wisdom suggesting avoiding hot drinks? So Iced Coffee should be just fine right? Man I'm so confused? Well, I'm off to tackle what "barley for use in mild drinks" means... wish me luck!

I take 3 cups a day. Oh, and did you know that red wine is good for your heart?

The WofW is not a commandment. It is a health guideline that allows us a way to make a willing sacrifice for the Lord.

We are given agency which allows us the ability to interpolate and internalize gospel principles in the way we see fit. The church provides guidelines and in some cases we are granted or denied certain privileges according to how we apply a principle, still personal interpretation is our right.

For instance most members refuse to fully follow the WofW. They choose denial over obedience in regards to the issue of eating meat sparingly and only in times of famine, treating our bodies as a temple by keeping it fit, feeding it according to need rather than according to glutenous desires.

By the way, I am a vegetarian and physically fit and yet I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at age 32. It was not my choice to develop the killer disease; rather it developed as a result of a fiercely strong genetic component on both sides of my family.

if they're going to be strictly authentic should pack a few lbs of coffee with them as they trudge across Wyoming. The original pioneers did.

... assuming you're the real John Pack Lambert, you and I have been around long enough on these comment boards to know that stories like these bring the anti-Mo trolls out. No big surprise there. But there's no point in returning insult for insult. This "hard-hearted" talk's just as bogus. Don't stoop to it.

God created the natural products from which we derive coffee, wine, and tea for a reason. It stands to reason there's some health benefits associated with them. But if I've promised not to consume the beverages man has made from God's natural creations--both those specified in the WoW AND others that aren't, but are just as bad--it becomes a matter of integrity for me.

The "sin" for me then, isn't as much in drinking the coffee as it is in doing something I promised I wouldn't do. A loving God has also provided other ways I can reap the health benefits. So it's OK. The trolls can disagree if they want! :)

>Can drinking coffee help control type 2 diabetes?

No, but it will make you excited to be a diabetic.

WHATEVER MAKES YOU FEEL HEALTHY AND HAPPY :) LET'S ALL BE SENSIBLE ON HERE. God gave us herbs to heal our bodies. So use them in moderation and sparingly. Although I don't think coke is a herb or a fruit. It's enriched sugar water with loaded caffeine and corn syrup. Coffee on the other hand is a herb that is ground from a coffee bean, and herb Teas comes from various plants that can heal and strengthen the whole body.
Treat your body well :)

Everyone owes it to themselves to check out bloodsugar.com. Seriously you wont regret it.

Probably the biggest negative for coffee is how it is grown. Like sugar,cocoa, bananas and many other foods grown in tropical climates, commodity coffee is grown by burning down rainforests in some of the most environmentally sensitive areas of planet earth and then sustaining the crop with ever increasing chemical inputs of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides including lead arsenic and ddt. Then they exploit the cheapest labor, women and children. In fact, uterine cancer rates in women and learning disabilities and birth defects in children is rampant in some coffee growing areas of the world.
If you are going to drink coffee because of its positive health implications, and there are many, drink certified organic, fair trade and Smithsonian Shade Grown "Bird-Friendly". Look behind any product you support. Two very large U.S. chocolate companies were brought up on child slave labor charges for years of ignoring exploitive labor practices among some of their cocoa sources!

As regards decaffeinated coffee, most coffee is decaffeinated with cleaning solvents like methyl chloride and ethyl acetate (literally soaking the coffee in it to remove the caffeine. Drink Swiss Water Process coffee instead.

I think it is better that people drink coffee.it has
helped in some cancer research.Not only thayt it is a lot better then drinking a can of red bull. no one
is say go out and drink a pot of coffee a cup of coffee is not going to hurt you. iy get your heart pumping and the blood to pump faster.I have not found anything that links coffee to any type of illness if you drink it like 2 or 3 cups a day.what
about candy bars they have caffene in it. some even
selling choclate drinks hmm somethink to think about huh.My stepfather had heart attack some years
ago. he became a member of the church back in 1988 all thou something happen and he stopped going but he had stopped drinking coffee and then when he had his heart attack he started back in to drinking it again he said he can fell the blood ging threw his heart that he feel better then he ever did. all thou he takes his pills for his heart. he said he is not giveing it up for anyone