Woohoo: Sugar in your coffee

I’ve been drinking my coffee black since the beginning of last summer. It was a tough habit to get into! Straight, black coffee can be painfully bitter, though once I acquired a taste for the drink, I’ll say that waking up to a fresh-pressed pot of black-gold is absolutely terrific. I’ve decreased the intensity of my heartburn problems, and have contributed to the less rapid deterioration of my health — all while loading myself up with the wonder drug, caffeine.

But, I’ll admit, there is the odd time that I decide to add a bit of sugar in my morning cup o’ java, and when I do, it’s ecstasy. A mouth-gasm of enhanced, sweetened flavour that sends my brain into a buzzing overdrive. Sometimes I’ll order that double-double, just to give myself an extra kick. Adding sugar once in a while, and in small doses, ain’t no biggie, and it gives me a simple something to indulge in from time to time.

Boohoo: Coffee in your sugar

My grandma used to spoon four heaping teaspoons of sugar into her coffee cup. She’d also have two cups per day. For those like me who have trouble with math, that’s eight heaping teaspoons of sugar in the morning!

My grandma obviously had blood sugar levels of steel, and I’ve never been able to understand how people can consume so much sucrose without keeling over from cardiac arrest.

So, if you’re one to add coffee to your sugar, here are some facts you learned in your high school biology class: sugar contains fructose, and too much of this can destroy your liver, which means you could die. Overloading your liver can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which means you could die. Sugar also causes insulin resistance, which leads to type II diabetes, which means you could die. Sugar also leads to cancer, which means . . . wait a sec, did you just read my mind?

In short, don’t die. Keep away from all that sugar!