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    Jordan,
    As always, thank you for your time, energy, and willingness to share knowledge on this board.

    Question about red meat intake:

    My local butcher offers "special" ground beef. Basically, they pull steaks and grind them and then offer the meat for like $2.57 a pound. The grind is really lean and he told me it's about a 96/4 blend (which seems accurate based on how it cooks up).

    Long story short, I eat about 5 pounds of beef a week. Any issues with this from a health perspective?

    I eat fruits and veggies, oats, rice, beans... And not a lot of packaged foods other than Quest bars, cereals (on occasion) and the occassional 2-3 donuts & the once every two months brunch destroyer meal (all you can eat brunch buffets--FTW). Fiber intake is around 30g a day.

    Oh and around 12-16 cups of coffee a day.

    My instinct tells me it's not an issue, but then....

    Thanks. Mark

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    You drink 12-16 cups of coffee a day??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jordan Feigenbaum View Post
    You drink 12-16 cups of coffee a day??
    LOL. Yeah, true 6 ounce cups. Daily average looks like this:

    6 in the morning 5:30ish

    2 around 11

    1-2 around 2-3 PM

    2-3 around 7 PM

    Sometimes more. And some days, I don't drink any or only a couple of cups. On the days, I don't drink any, I don't notice any difference in energy levels and don't get headaches.

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    If you go by the measuring cup marks on the pot then I drink prolly 10-12 cups a day though that breaks down to actually pouring coffee in to my coffee cup 4 times a day. I'm guessing my coffee cup is about 16 oz and for whatever reason coffee makers refer to a cup as 6 oz. how much coffee a day do you drink Jordan? Considering you seem to operate on like 3 hours of sleep I presume your blood type would be Arabica.

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    You drink 12-16 cups of coffee a day??

    Too few?

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    Thanks for asking this question, Mark. I eat quite a bit of red meat as well. Not quite on your level with the coffee consumption though

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    Should drink twice the amount of coffee he drinks, then he'll not have to worry about nothing, approximately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Harlin View Post
    I'm guessing my coffee cup is about 16 oz and for whatever reason coffee makers refer to a cup as 6 oz. how much coffee a day do you drink Jordan? Considering you seem to operate on like 3 hours of sleep I presume your blood type would be Arabica.
    In 6 oz cups, I probably do 5 cups a day then.

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    96/4 ground beef sounds awful. What do you do with it? I find 80/20 too lean for burgers. For a while I was grinding skirt steak to get a fattier blend, but the prices went through the roof. . . .

    I just got a glass pot for iced tea. I make it TX style, which is weak. I drink a few large glasses a day, but I don't come close to 15 cups of coffee a day. That's extreme!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jordan Feigenbaum View Post
    In 6 oz cups, I probably do 5 cups a day then.
    Wait, should I have any concern about the coffee or red meat quantities?

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