“coffee with milk and sugar”
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Peatiness Score
** Peat explicitly recommended coffee with milk and sugar as a therapeutic food combination.
“** "I have suggested that they try drinking about two ounces of coffee with cream or milk along with a meal. It's common for them to find that this reduces their symptoms of hypoglycemia, and allows them to be symptom-free between meals."”
Analysis
What Peat said about coffee with milk and sugar:
• Coffee alone: Peat strongly endorses coffee as protective against multiple diseases. Coffee drinkers have lower incidence of thyroid disease, Parkinson's disease, suicide, and liver damage. Caffeine protects against cancer (especially breast cancer), supports progesterone synthesis, and increases metabolic rate.
• Adding milk: Peat discusses milk positively in context of stress reduction. Milk protein (casein) has "direct antistress effects." Combining milk with carbohydrates helps "moderating the secretion of cortisol." Milk's low iron content is beneficial for preventing iron overload.
• Adding sugar: Peat is explicit that sugar (sucrose) with caffeine is synergistic. "Simply giving more sucrose prevented the growth retardation" from large caffeine doses in pregnant animals. Sugar with coffee helps prevent hypoglycemia symptoms. He notes: "Feeding animals a normal diet with the addition of Coca-Cola, or with a similar amount of sucrose, has been found to let them increase their calorie intake by 50% without increasing their weight gain."
• The combination: Peat directly recommends this exact combination. For hypoglycemic symptoms: "I have suggested that they try drinking about two ounces of coffee with cream or milk along with a meal. It's common for them to find that this reduces their symptoms of hypoglycemia."