– Do you have coffee? A grey-haired man stuck his head in the door of Kaffehuset in Stavanger. It is ten past ten. – Two cups, says Stein Lea in a pronounced Stavanger dialect. He only has two hours left to enjoy his coffee. In any case, if he is to follow his own coffee deadline. When do you have your last cup of coffee? Before twelve o’clock 🕛 Five o’clock in the afternoon at the latest 🕔 Never, drink coffee all day ☕ Show result – No, I don’t drink coffee after 12 o’clock, then things go wrong, says Lea with a serious look. The coffee goes away both in Norway, which imports the most coffee in the summer months according to figures from Statistisk Sentral Byrå (SSB), and at Stein Lea. He drank at least three cups a day. But they must be enjoyed before twelve. And it’s not just Lea who has set herself a coffee deadline: Richel Ruego – I don’t drink coffee in the evening. Preferably not after 6 o’clock. Knut Lekvam – At 4-5 o’clock I try to take the last cup Sonja Malahal – I try to take the last cup around 6 o’clock so I can sleep in the evening Hugene Brendløkken – Between 8 and 12, in the evening yes. I don’t notice anything. Wiktoria Hudziak – The last cup is at 3 o’clock. 5-6 o’clock is too late But is there any point in setting a deadline for the last cup of coffee of the day? – Yes, it certainly is. The answer from clinical nutritionist, researcher and self-proclaimed coffee enthusiast Jacob Juel Christensen is clear and unambiguous, but you can take it a little longer than Lea: – The five o’clock tip, which many people use, is a good tip for the vast majority of people with a normal intake of coffee, he says. And you should perhaps take advantage of that if you want to avoid that what Lea says “goes wrong”. Time for coffee? Photo: Borghild Aasen Kvæven / news Up to 15 hours in the body – It becomes more difficult to fall asleep and you get poorer sleep quality, Christensen says are the consequences if you drink coffee late in the evening. The reason for that: caffeine. Christensen says that caffeine causes you to delay or reduce the pressure to sleep, i.e. the feeling of being tired. If you drink coffee in the evening, you will therefore have more trouble falling asleep. And the caffeine does not disappear immediately: – When caffeine enters the body, it takes ten to 15 hours before it is out of the body again, says Christensen. It may also seem that this unwritten coffee deadline has other effects. Norway is in second place among the nations with the most thirst for coffee in the world. Photo: Borghild Aasen Kvæven / news No customers At Kaffehuset, sals and coffee apprentice Wiktoria Hudziak pours coffee into new cups. The customer traffic in the morning is steady, but it changes drastically after five. Wiktoria Hudziak is very busy at Kaffehuset in the summer. At least until five o’clock. Photo: Borghild Aasen Kvæven / news – After five or six o’clock there are almost no people here, says Hudziak about the days of the week Kaffehuset is open until seven instead of five. Shop manager Richel Ruego at Helmer Te og Kaffi in Stavanger also notices a big difference in customer pressure after five o’clock. Then it quiets down. Hudziak himself takes his last cup before three o’clock. – If not, I won’t be able to sleep, she says. An entire wall covered in coffee at Kaffehuset. Photo: Borghild Aasen Kvæven / news No rule without exception But how can some who drank coffee late at night fall asleep without a problem? – It is because you can develop tolerance. So those who drink a lot of coffee and caffeine over time will develop a tolerance and will not get the same physiological effect from a certain dose, says Christensen. For Stein Lea, who has now received her two steaming fresh cups of coffee, the deadline is fixed, but not something she wants to push on others: – Fortunately, we are different, and coffee is the best drink there is, he concludes as he walks out the door . Stein Lea has received her two cups before twelve. Photo: Borghild Aasen Kvæven / news Published 04.08.2024, at 12.17
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