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For some people, money is no object. For the rest of us, it is all the objects. Even still, sometimes, we want to go all out and spoil someone who is extra special or has been over-the-top helpful this past year. If you have a loved one who has gone above and beyond and you really (really) want to thank them, consider one of these fancy, splurgy gifts. And then give everyone else on your list a stick of gum and a hug.
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It’s finally happened! After months of making the whole world wait in anxious anticipation, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their engagement this morning. The couple is over the moon, and their families are thrilled. They will get married this spring, which means the whole world has a royal wedding to look forward to, and their menu will certainly be spectacular.
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Welcome to Kitchn’s series My Healthy Morning, where we show you how one person greets the day in a way that makes them feel their best. Each post will chronicle how that person defines healthy for themselves, and the habits and recipes that make their morning a little bit better.
You may already be familiar with Lindsey Tramuta, a Paris-based journalist navigating her way through life and love in the land of butter and cheese. She’s written for Kitchn on a number of occasions, sharing her insights on how real French people eat, drink, and live, and how living in France has shaped her food values. (Personally, I’ve been living my French fantasy life vicariously through her Instagram feed; her handle is, appropriately, @lostncheeseland.)
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I can get behind a design trend just as fast as the next person. Exposed brick? Sliding barn doors? Reclaimed wood? Check, check, and check! I dream of a farmhouse sink and a subway tile backsplash and am about to do the all-open-shelving thing in our kitchen. But there’s one seemingly mandatory design decision that I have zero interest in making: adopting the open kitchen.
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Like many people, I was just home visiting my parents for Thanksgiving. As tradition has it, my dad makes the turkey (he grills it!) and I do all of the sides and desserts. My mom, brother, and husband usually float in and out of the kitchen to watch and chat while I work. Once in a while, someone will come in to chop an onion (I always cry so hard!) or help me find a casserole dish. This year, my mom happened to be in the kitchen at just the right time to help with a surprising task.
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For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering three questions from readers. First, I give my take on a new, big coffee study, which analyzed several meta-analyses of existing coffee and health data. Second, should you let a fever run its course or try to defeat it at all costs? The body obviously “wants” to get hotter in these situations. Is there a good reason? And finally, how much glycine do people need per day?
Let’s go:
Rudy asked:
Hey Mark,
Did you get a chance to see the latest study on coffee? There are a lot of connections, both good and bad. What were your biggest takeaways?
Here’s the full study.
On the whole, coffee seems to help, not hurt. While there are some associations between coffee consumption and poor health outcomes, they’re outweighed by the beneficial associations.
What’s a bigger scourge our society—type 2 diabetes or childhood cleft malformations? No disease or disorder should be taken lightly, however rare it may be, but if we’re just crunching numbers, the diseases coffee consumption seems to reduce are a bigger threat than the diseases it seems to promote.
The studies that found health benefits for coffee were more numerous and had more participants than those finding negative effects. For instance, there were 27 studies including over a million participants showing benefits against type 2 diabetes but only 6 studies with just under 5000 participants showing links between coffee and acute child leukemia.
What I found most interesting (and telling) was the apparent coffee/LDL/heart disease paradox. One of the strongest protective associations coffee had was with cardiovascular disease. People with high intakes had a much lower rate of death from cardiovascular disease than people with low intakes. It hasn’t been causally linked, of course, as the authors drew primarily on observational studies, but we can at least surmise that it’s not bad for your heart. Yet, despite those protective associations, coffee consumption was also linked to higher LDL levels—and in a dose response manner, meaning the more coffee one drank, the higher their LDL levels.
How could this be? Isn’t LDL supposed to ravage our bodies, clog our arteries, and doom us to cardiovascular disease?
Maybe LDL increases that result from diet are qualitatively different than LDL increases with non-dietary causes (like genetics). I don’t know, but it sure is interesting.
In the end, most of the associations with negative health effects were weak, inconsistent, and they often disappeared when you controlled for other health variables like smoking. There were some standout categories where coffee really did seem to be problematic, like in pregnancy or fracture risk. Even those are easy to solve—don’t drink caffeinated coffee during pregnancy, and be sure to keep an eye on your bone health if you’re a woman who drinks a lot of coffee.
Sara asked:
Hi Mark,
It’s cold and flu season and with three kids, it seems like someone’s always got something. Should I treat the fever or let it do its thing? Sara
I’m a firm believer in letting the fever run its course. That fever is happening for a reason.
And that’s without “hard evidence.” It’s my bias talking, but I tend to assume that if the body responds the same way every time, you shouldn’t just get in the way.
Luckily, you don’t have to take my personal gut instinct as evidence. Actual empirical evidence exists, and the bulk of it supports my bias. Higher body temperatures tend to enhance immune function, while lowering body temperature in the event of fever degrades it:
When mice are injected with an antigen, increasing their body temperature by 2 degrees increases production of CD-8 T-cells, which can attack infected or cancerous cells.
In kids with salmonella infections, those with higher body temperatures expel the bacteria more quickly.
I still don’t quite get why so many people, even many doctors, insist on “getting that fever down.” It wasn’t always this way. Ancient doctors used heat therapy—hot stones, hot baths, hot steam, hot sand, hot mud—to raise the patient’s body temperature. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, doctors induced fevers by injecting malaria to treat syphilis. And it worked.
Okay, maybe I do understand why people treat the fever. Fevers feel bad. You get hot, then cold, then hot again. You wake up soaked, if you can even sleep. It’s manageable when you only have to worry about yourself. It’s downright exhausting when you’re dealing with sick kids.
Unless other troubling symptoms exist (e.g. severe malaise, dehydration, seizures, a stiff neck—suggesting the possibility of meningitis), fevers below 104ºF generally aren’t an emergency. Very young babies (under 3 months) are another story and should be seen and treated for lower fevers.
But in non-acute scenarios, I’d still try to hold out and let the fever run its course.
Caitlin wondered:
Great post! Wondering, if you’re supplementing with a powdered collagen, what’s the recommended dosage? I’ve always just added a heaping tablespoon of the Great Lakes Collagen to my AM fat coffee, but would I benefit from adding more into my daily routine?
The average person requires at least 10 grams of glycine a day for basic physiological repair and various metabolic processes. We can make about 3 grams in house, leaving 7 grams for us to get from diet.
Collagen is roughly 33% glycine, so you’ll need at least 20 grams of collagen protein to hit 7 grams of glycine.
Now, that’s for your basic human being. Other human beings will need more or less glycine than 7 grams/day. Athletes, weight lifters, martial artists, runners, dancers, skiers, snowboarders, and anyone else engaging in intense and demanding physical toll that stresses the connective tissue will need more than 7 extra grams of glycine to rebuild and restrengthen.
If you fit into the above categories, or you’re just overall more active than average, grab some extra collagen—maybe another 5-10 grams.
A heaping tablespoon of Great Lakes collagen hydrolysate contains 6 grams of collagen, or about 2 grams of glycine. A good start, to be sure.
Hope these all helped! Thanks for reading!
Let’s hear from you guys below. Anyone have anything to add (or subtract)?
The post Dear Mark: New Coffee Study, Letting a Fever Run its Course, Collagen Dosage appeared first on Mark’s Daily Apple.
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The almighty slow cooker can do many things, including giving me a big assist when getting dinner on the table. When a chicken dinner finds its way into my meal plan, whether I have a pack of meaty thighs or lean, boneless chicken breast, I know I can pull out the slow cooker and a totally delicious meal isn’t too far off.
Here are 10 essential chicken dinners you can make in the slow cooker.
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If you’re looking to redecorate any room in your house, it may interest you to know that West Elm’s Cyber Monday sale includes up to 60 percent off furniture and rugs. If you’re looking for more giftable type stuff, well, there are a few other sales worth checking out. Here are a few of the best Cyber Monday deals that we’ve spotted at West Elm.
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Don’t have time to make something from scratch for everyone (read: anyone) on your holiday list this year? It happens! If you still want to gift some edible treats, consider shopping from this guide. We’ve rounded up all sorts of fun things you can send through the mail like filet mignon, spicy prosciutto spread, and bourbon balls.
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