Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

[Universe]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54269144

[JosephK]

I just the other day bought a box of real licorice bits from an Italian food shop, and was surprised to see the warning: "avoid excessive consumption in case of hypertensions."

[Seya]

It is well known that liquorice causes hypertension

[JosephK]

Espresso (any non-paper-filtered coffee) raises LDL cholesterol, I'm allergic to peanut butter, walnuts, and almonds... and now I have to watch out for licorice, now that I actually found a place that sells it. At what point is life not worth living...?

[Universe]

Espresso (any non-paper-filtered coffee) raises LDL cholesterol, I'm allergic to peanut butter, walnuts, and almonds... and now I have to watch out for licorice, now that I actually found a place that sells it. At what point is life not worth living...?

Espresso isn't unhealthy. Cholesterol theory is bollocks. It was made up by 'scientists' who were payed by sugar lobby (look it up)

The thing is:

- Your serum cholesterol level isn't determined by the cholesterol you consume
- Having high cholesterol isn't bad for cardiovascular health
- Food high in cholesterol such as keto diet doesn't worsen your serum cholesterol https://medium.com/@JPMcCarter/the-t...e-9502383d4e8c (point 6)
- Coffe isn't unheealthy, more and more studies show that. The sugar you put in it is unhealthy. Milk isn't healthy either.

[Dr_Maul]

Thats how I'm tryna go out

[JosephK]

Espresso isn't unhealthy. Cholesterol theory is bollocks. It was made up by 'scientists' who were payed by sugar lobby (look it up)

The thing is:

- Your serum cholesterol level isn't determined by the cholesterol you consume
- Having high cholesterol isn't bad for cardiovascular health
- Food high in cholesterol such as keto diet doesn't worsen your serum cholesterol https://medium.com/@JPMcCarter/the-t...e-9502383d4e8c (point 6)
- Coffe isn't unheealthy, more and more studies show that. The sugar you put in it is unhealthy. Milk isn't healthy either.

you're essentially correct, or rather I should say I mostly agree with you; except it seems more likely to me that the Big Coffee industry is repressing the espresso-cholesterol issue.
I eat typically quite healthy, but became obsessed with figuring out why my LDL levels were so high, and in fact it is directly proportional to the amount of unfiltered coffee I consume. I never drink milk or add milk or sugar to my coffee, just pure black espresso or drip coffee. I've experimented a number of times and, all things being equal, having two shots of espresso a day keeps my LDL pretty high, if I go a couple of days without it, my LDL will plummet. I don't think everybody has the same reaction, though-and like you said, for most people, it's the crap they put in coffee that's the problem...

Also, I generally agree with your comment about high cholesterol not being bad for health, but enough research (reasonably reliable) is out there that does, in fact, link high LDL with cardiovascular events, even with "good HDL/LDL ratios."

[Universe]

you're essentially correct, or rather I should say I mostly agree with you; except it seems more likely to me that the Big Coffee industry is repressing the espresso-cholesterol issue.
I eat typically quite healthy, but became obsessed with figuring out why my LDL levels were so high, and in fact it is directly proportional to the amount of unfiltered coffee I consume. I never drink milk or add milk or sugar to my coffee, just pure black espresso or drip coffee. I've experimented a number of times and, all things being equal, having two shots of espresso a day keeps my LDL pretty high, if I go a couple of days without it, my LDL will plummet. I don't think everybody has the same reaction, though-and like you said, for most people, it's the crap they put in coffee that's the problem...

Also, I generally agree with your comment about high cholesterol not being bad for health, but enough research (reasonably reliable) is out there that does, in fact, link high LDL with cardiovascular events, even with "good HDL/LDL ratios."

Correlation isn't causation.

[calxpal]

Good thing I got sick of licorice

[♥ Lily ♥]

...' ate about one-and-a-half bags of black liquorice every day.'

Everything in moderation. Drinking a gallon of water would also kill a human.

I remember occasionally eating liquorice as a child, but I was never all that keen on the taste and found it quite sickly. Soft liquorice (red and black) was easier to chew than the stiff and hard types of liquorice.

The worst sweet of all was candy. (Every child I knew hated candy rock.... rock hard sticks of sugar.... and candy floss was also very sickly.) Sickly candy and liquorice were difficult sweets for most kids to like.

I was never keen on wine gum sweets either.

I loved soft love heart sweets (each sweet had a love message on them and a slight fizzy texture that would gently melt on the tongue.... and rolos which are soft milk chocolate with a soft caramel centre.... and Kit-Kats, penguin bars, mint choc Club bars, Nestlé milky bars, wagon wheels, Cadburys milk chocolate buttons, white chocolate buttons, Galaxy minstrels, etc.)

I loved soft milk bottle sweeties too. (Yummy with a delicate milk flavour and not too sickly.)














Nestlé Walnut Whip was my favourite sweet as a teen.

Candy (followed by liquorice) makes me shiver and are amongst my least favourite sweets. Candy will break your teeth as it's hard like rock... hence the name 'candy rock' and 'stick-o-rock' and it's like very hard sugar and is sickly. It's a choking hazard for small children and parents have to cut it into very small pieces as it's so hard. There's so much sugar in candy and it's very sickly.




Candy floss is also very sickly ... it's soft like cotton... and it's very sticky and messy as it gets stuck in your hair if you have long hair and eat it outside when the wind blows.



I liked soft candy sticks as a child (although a little bit sickly) and I absolutely loved chocolate sweet 'cigarettes' for kids (not real cigs, but mock cigs which were sweet milk chocolate sticks wrapped in edible rice paper.) And I loved bags of 'Pick & Mix' assorted sweets.




I rarely eat sweets as an adult as I kind of grew out of them, along with biscuits and cookies (which I used to love as a child,) but sometimes I still enjoy the occasional kit-kat bar or a walnut whip. It's weird because my Mum and grandmother both said they loved sweets and biscuits when they were children but also went off enjoying them as adults ... peoples taste buds change over time.