Why do people act like coffee in the morning is such a sacred routine but soda in the morning [basically the same drink] is lowbrow and unhealthy?

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like, it's caffeine and water and brown, who cares. i drink diet soda so it's no calories, no sugar. versus the stereotype starbucks order, why is soda so demonized

the whole sort of basically woo stuff about oh there's antioxidants there which give you a 3% lower risk of skin cancer after the age of 65 like come on that doesn't count

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I rarely drink coffee and sometimes drink soda, but never in the morning. I’m concerned about developing a need for caffeine.

Once I thought coffee was giving me migraines so I quit it cold turkey for 2 months. Turns out it wasn't so I started again. I just like a warm drink in the morning. Caffeine itself doesn't really do anything to me I don't think. I can drink a coffee at 11pm and pass out at 1130 no problem.

I've heard caffeine can have a calming effect on people with ADHD.

It can. I have a friend who let her preteen son drink coffee, because he had ADHD and it had a positive effect on him.