Participants: Curtis & Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00177A
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00:01 Sometime ago the Hill's Brothers visited
00:04 Maxwell's house for a cup of Coffee. 00:07 And they both agreed this is good to the last drop, 00:11 well how good is it. Well our program is entitled 00:14 coffee, the inside scoop, we'll be right back. 00:45 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living, 00:46 this is Curtis Eakins and this is my wonderful bride 00:50 Paula Eakins. Hello, hello, not only are you my bride, 00:54 I like to also mentioned that you are my partner 00:58 and also my business partner, my traveling buddy. 01:01 All of those things above, my best friend too. 01:05 You're right below Jesus Christ, 01:07 now you can't get any higher than that. 01:09 Wow, wow! Anything you like to say in response to that 01:12 honey, while the cameras is rolling is just wow, 01:15 okay. Well I mean am I to return the compliments. 01:19 Well that's up to you, you know whatever you feel, 01:21 you don't have to say anything right now. 01:23 Okay, somewhere in the program I will have to return 01:28 the compliment. Okay, and we'll be waiting. 01:30 Okie dokie. Okay. Okie dokie. Alright, start to breathe 01:35 and get myself together first, 01:36 'cause that was a lot of compliments being thrown 01:38 at me at one time. Okay maybe next time 01:40 I can just kind of spin it out a little bit, yeah, 01:43 okay very good, I noticed the. Coffee 01:45 the inside scoop, I notice that, I noticed you got 01:47 the Hill's Brothers and everybody coming together. 01:49 Yeah. And getting their cup of coffee. 01:50 Yeah. Mr. Folgers's, he was there too at Maxwell's house, 01:53 they were all there together, this is a hot topic. 01:56 Alright, yes it is, this is a hot topic because 01:58 people love coffee, that's true, you got a couple 02:03 of places that we actually are volunteers at 02:05 and it's amazing how much coffee people drink 02:09 on a daily basis, that's true. Now and I personally 02:13 I never drank one cup of coffee in my entire life, 02:16 but this is what I'm told and so we'll go and talk 02:20 about is coffee really good to the last drop, 02:24 how good is it? I know you drank it years ago, 02:27 well you know, my parents were heavy coffee 02:31 drinkers and as a matter of fact my mother, 02:35 because it's ten of us in our family, she would say 02:38 when I drink my coffee then you can come 02:42 downstairs but until then until then stay upstairs. 02:46 And believe me we did not come down 02:48 until she had gotten her coffee in, alright. 02:50 And so of course you know as we got a little bit 02:53 older we drank the coffee as well. 02:55 The word is more mature. Okay more mature, 02:57 yes okay, we drink a little bit more of it, 02:59 you know but coffee is too strong for me, 03:02 I mean you know we've, I do not particularly care for it, 03:05 you know that's just me though, okay I know that, 03:07 that was one of the things and it was mainly because 03:11 of a drug we're gonna be talking about. 03:13 So, is there something about coffee that we ought 03:16 to know about, because it's obvious. 03:18 Well, it's obvious, this is where you going 03:19 and again this is part again 03:21 we're continuing our Mental 03:23 Wellness series and this is part of that 03:26 as well and you also determine why that is 03:28 so, as we go through this program. 03:30 I want to turn to one text and it's in Proverbs 20, 03:38 yes 20 and verse 1, the Bible says wine is a mocker, 03:48 strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived, 03:55 thereby is not wise. Now of course we 04:00 sometimes say if you're not wise you must 04:03 be otherwise, but it says wine is a mocker, 04:06 strong drink is raging, in other words wine is not 04:11 the only beverage that's strong. And both says, 04:16 the Bible says whoever is deceived thereby, 04:22 thereby a lot of people may drink wine or others 04:25 strong beverages and there is a deception associated 04:30 with these two beverages and we're going to look 04:33 at how a person can be deceived by thinking that 04:36 they maybe receiving good benefits from wine, 04:39 red wine because it's lot of clinical studies out there 04:43 about heart disease, but again a lot of people 04:45 maybe deceived by that and also by coffee as well. 04:48 So it's a deception that we're going to more of that 04:51 in throughout our program. So, throughout our 04:54 program I want to ask your- self this question is coffee 05:00 or anything that caffeine has in it, 05:03 is that considered in the category of a strong drink, 05:08 we ask ourselves that question as we go through 05:10 this program today. Strong drink, 05:13 yes okay well then that means that when you're 05:16 saying strong drink there must be some type 05:18 of alteration going on with the mind and body 05:21 as you take these particular foods or this particular 05:24 drinks in so, I guess what then if we're talking 05:27 about coffee, what is the effect of that on our bodies? 05:32 Okay, now the first thing is we need to understand 05:35 coffee in itself has one ingredient that 05:38 we're going to zero in on today, that's caffeine. 05:41 Now caffeine is a plant alkaloid, anything that is a 05:47 alkaloid that goes into the system is going to disrupt 05:50 the delicate mechanism of the system itself 05:53 that God has created alright. It's a psychoactive 05:57 drug, according to the food and drug administration, 06:00 it is a drug. So although we're talking about coffee 06:04 anything that has caffeine in it, in the beverage 06:09 form also contains these psychoactive drugs 06:12 that caffeine brings to the table. 06:14 There are a lot of plants that has caffeine other 06:17 than the cocoa beans and any insect that feeds 06:21 on these plants that has caffeine in it actually 06:24 paralysis and kills some of the insects. 06:26 So it's a very powerful stimulant. 06:30 Now you have a several terms that we use, 06:33 such as I have a craving for something, 06:37 that means that if you don't get that item of food 06:40 that you desire you have craving for, 06:42 you can still function your life, you can still go to work 06:45 extra. But then we have another term that 06:48 says I am addicted to something, 06:51 that means that if you don't get that article of food 06:54 or that beverage whatever, 06:55 it really impacts your lifestyle drastically 06:59 and as we go through this program, 07:01 you will understand that a lot of people maybe 07:04 addicted to this liquid drug that has caffeine in it. 07:11 Coffee is one of the things and we're mentioning 07:13 coffee because coffee is consumed 4 out of 5 07:17 Americans every single day. So, ask yourself 07:21 this question again, if you're one of those millions 07:24 of Americans who must have your cup of coffee 07:28 in the morning, that shot, that steaming cup to 07:32 get yourself going to wake yourself up and if you 07:36 don't get it, you cannot function then as one think 07:41 tank conservative group says you maybe addicted 07:45 to that beverage. It is an addiction, 07:48 so we need to underscore that as well. 07:50 So coffee and also any beverage that has caffeine 07:54 in it will bring to the table as well. Okay. 07:58 But I know that someone is looking at their coffee 08:00 right now and they're saying well 08:03 I don't drink regular coffee, I drink decaf, 08:07 okay that's supposed to be caffeine free 08:10 or a low amount of caffeine in it. So, 08:13 address the decaf. Yeah, well I drink decaf, 08:16 well decaf of course decaf still has caffeine in it, 08:19 about seven milligrams and we'll look at 08:21 about other beverages that has caffeine as well, 08:24 but it still contains caffeine, but my question 08:27 is this, what do they use to take the caffeine 08:31 out of the coffee. You still have the coffee acids 08:35 and the harsh oils that's also added or it's also 08:40 still in the coffee itself, even though it's caffeine. 08:43 Now you still have, it affects the liver and it 08:46 also affects the stomach, so even though it's decaf, 08:49 some studies even suggest that decaf can raise 08:53 your cholesterol even higher than regular coffee. 08:56 So now you mentioned also before the other 08:59 question what about the effects it has on the body? 09:02 Coffee or beverages that contain caffeine 09:06 is a powerful stimulant, artificial stimulant that 09:10 acts on the central nervous system, 09:12 and also the brain, but also the body as well, 09:14 (1) It acts on the cardiovascular system. 09:20 When caffeine, such as coffee enters into the system 09:24 it raises our homocysteine, homocysteine 09:27 is related to heart disease, that's number one. 09:31 Also caffeine stimulates or effects the heart beat, 09:37 the heart muscle, delicate gland, the heart 09:41 itself when caffeine entered into that system 09:44 it creates a regular heart beat. Arrhythmias, 09:50 what about osteoporosis? 09:52 This was an interesting study done at the researches 09:55 at the Creighton University of Omaha, 09:58 they looked at 85,000 women and those women 10:02 who took in a lot of caffeine. So just coffee 10:06 they discovered that they have increased 10:08 rate of osteoporosis. Caffeine also snatches 10:12 calcium from the skeleton system, 10:15 you know sometimes you have the Dowager's hump, 10:17 yeah well caffeine helps to collapse the skeletal system, 10:21 so coffee does that as well or caffeinated beverages, 10:24 let me put it that way. What about diabetes 10:27 or hyperglycemia, when caffeine enters into the 10:31 system it triggers the liver to release stored sugar 10:36 we call glycogen, when stored sugars enters 10:40 into the system thereby what happens is it alerts 10:43 the pancreas to produce more insulin. Okay, 10:47 to take that stored sugar into the cell for energy, 10:51 well that happens over and over again then the 10:53 blood sugars becomes low, we have hypoglycemia. 10:58 Miscarriages, 3 cups a day, women expecting 11:01 a child bearing age, you have twice of much risk 11:05 of miscarriages as well. So coffee has a lot of things 11:09 that it can do and impacts the system, 11:12 the body and general. Whew! And you know 11:16 and that's just the good news, there is more to come. 11:22 The more to come, I guess then while people 11:26 are still trying to understand is it just 11:29 a coffee issue. Is this caffeine in other beverages, 11:34 because you called that out a couple of times, 11:35 right that's true yes. So and we're mentioning 11:38 coffee because again like I said before, we 11:40 get most of our caffeine in the form of coffee, 11:43 75%. Well let's look at that caffeine count, 11:46 let's go to our first graphic at this time. 11:50 The Caffeine Count: Just look at it. 11:53 Soft drinks, it can be anywhere form 35 up to 50 11:57 milligrams of caffeine, soft drinks. Tea, 12:01 this is caffeinated tea, that can be 50 milligrams 12:05 or more of caffeine just in caffeinated tea, 12:08 then you have coffee, this is instant coffee now 12:11 and of course these are averages but it can range 12:13 anywhere from 75 up to 90 milligrams of caffeine, 12:19 next we have energy drinks, now this is very popular, 12:22 energy drinks have at least 100 milligrams of caffeine, 12:26 sometimes up to a 150 because sometimes 12:30 if you read the ingredients and we'll have the word 12:32 Gorana, Gorana that's also caffeine too, 12:36 so add caffeine plus Gorana, we have sometimes up 12:39 to a 140 milligrams of caffeine. 12:42 The last one that's coffee and this is proved and this 12:45 can be again range of 115 up to 130 to 40 milligrams 12:51 of caffeine. So again, coffee is not of course the 12:55 only beverages that has caffeine in it, 12:57 you have the soft drinks, you also have particularly 13:00 that's more popular now as of late that energy 13:03 drinks that can have a whole lot of caffeine 13:07 in those energy drinks and you read those ingredients 13:10 it will help caffeine and also has the word Gorana 13:14 that needs to be added to the caffeine count 13:17 in those energy drinks. So again, these are, 13:20 we call health destroying beverages with a high 13:23 amount of caffeine, there's drug that's in the plant 13:26 kingdom. I guess when you're combining, 13:29 if you're having the coffee throughout the day 13:33 our lets say in the morning and then you're turning 13:35 around and having those soft drinks, 13:36 like the energy drink in the afternoon or so yes 13:39 so then that means that's some real, 13:41 that is some lots of mind alterations going on it. 13:45 As a result of that you're not going to be, 13:47 because you can have anywhere from 300 to 400 13:49 milligrams of caffeine and of course 3 cups of can like 13:53 I said before double the risk of miscarriages those 13:57 who are caring to feel. Well I'm sure that it also 14:00 will alter the minds of individuals anyway period 14:04 you know well now that's another thing, 14:06 a good point because honey we're talking about 14:09 how it effects our minds, this is a part of the 14:12 Mental Wellness series. So now we gonna get into 14:14 the Area of Mental Health. It does effect our mind 14:18 drastically, remember caffeine is a artificial 14:23 temporary stimulant, not only on our mind but 14:27 the entire Central Nervous System. 14:32 A very delicate system and it impacts that. 14:36 It also exhausts the adrenal glands, the adrenal glands 14:40 is our bodies stress center, okay and also we talk 14:45 about this in the last weeks or so coffee or caffeine 14:49 I should say, when it goes into the system it depletes 14:53 Serotonin. We talked about Serotonin before on the 14:57 program yes, yes serotonin is the mood 14:59 neurotransmitters, so coffee impacts that as well. 15:02 Let's go to our last graphic and let's see 15:04 what this inspired writer says about coffee and coffee 15:07 drinking. A deceitful cup, this is counsels on Health 15:11 page 441, this is powerful quote, 15:14 "coffee is a hurtful indulgence, it temporarily 15:22 excites the mind, but the after affect is sad. 15:27 The mind become weak and the activity of the 15:32 the brain greatly lessened." 15:36 Now we'll zero in on how it affects our mind 15:40 and the central nervous system. Why is that a 15:44 deceitful cup? Here's the thing about this, people 15:49 they would drink coffee in the morning and because 15:52 they feel invigorated their imagination it seems 15:56 to be enhanced, they think that coffee is doing them 16:01 a world of good. Okay, that's the deception, 16:05 it's just like if we had a 401K, if I took daily 16:10 withdrawal from my 401K to provide a temporary 16:14 financial fix then later on we're going to pay a hefty 16:20 dividend with that. Coffee is the same thing, 16:23 alright it provides a temporary fix but on long run 16:27 we'll pay the price in the long way. Well then what kind 16:31 of advice do you give an individual who is trying 16:34 to stop drinking coffee or a lot of caffeine 16:37 like beverages. Well, keep in mind now again 16:40 this is a drug, psychoactive drug, a plant alkaloid, 16:47 therefore a lot of people maybe addicted, 16:50 hence if someone's addicted to lets say recreational 16:54 drugs, then if one lay off with this drug caffeine, 16:59 there's going to be a withdrawal alright. 17:02 I want to read a statement and closing by this author 17:05 who's been translated more than anybody else 17:08 in the United States according to the Library Congress, 17:11 and this is to just kind of help people, let people 17:13 understand about the leaving off of the caffeine 17:17 or the coffee itself. This is very powerful, 17:19 counsels on diets and foods page 430, 17:21 listen to these words. Those who attempt to leave 17:25 off these stimulants, she's referring to coffee drinking 17:28 and caffeinated beverages. Well for a time fill a loss 17:33 and we'll suffer without them, but by persistence 17:39 they will overcome the craving and seize to feel 17:43 the lack. Nature may require a little time to recover 17:48 from the abuse she has suffered, but given her 17:51 a chance she will again rally and perform her work well. 17:57 So, again those out there, those 2 or 3 cups of coffee 18:02 just to get going to wake up. Nature has been abused, 18:06 the body has been abused and in time the nature 18:09 came really into a recover form this abuse of a long 18:13 coffee drinking or caffeinated beverages. 18:16 So we just ask that God will help you and the 18:19 Holy Spirit will give you the persistence, 18:21 the will power and also the strength to lay off this 18:26 hurtful beverage. Well you know once again 18:29 here we go we, you know we talk about this often 18:31 on Abundant Living and here on 3ABN that nothing 18:34 is impossible with God. That's right honey, 18:37 but the one thing that I like is that in the New Testament, 18:41 the book of Luke, there is a statement and that is it says 18:45 things that impossible with man are possible with God, 18:49 so God can do anything but fail. Amen! 18:52 And speaking about impossibilities, 18:54 there is positively that we're going into the kitchen 18:58 today and in this kitchen we're going to be fixing 19:01 a silken carob pie, so stay by. |
Revised 2014-12-17