Black Coffee And Salt...... whose idea was it?

what does black coffee with a bit of salt do to ya?..... i took it during my crash diet and all i could say was it made me hyper and my face grew tiny. I looked pretty  but seriously...what effect does it have on our body?...... and what about warm water with lemon first thing in the morning?..... i hear that helps alot????

I know for sure that warm water with lemon helps if you consume it the first thing in the morning.

The Lemon breaks down fat and hence is good- If you have water with Lemon n a bit of salt throughout the day- the water retention goes away- basically you will pee frequently throughout the day!

But warm water and lemon in the mornin will do the needful!

Black coffee oxidises your fat cells- It is said that black tea is even better.

Anthea

I agree with the hotwater and lemon. It really does help, been doing it for years. (My grandma even did it).

Don't know about the black coffee/salt thing. Don't think I could do that.

so its ok to have warm water with lemon?..... ok great ! cuz my friends kept scaring me off that its dangerous ..... its acid....its going to ruin my bones etc etc,  BUT what about black coffee and salt?   i know its really hard to go through but the best part is it really spoils ur mouths taste and therefore one wont even be tempted by a big mac after having that sick taste in mouth.......BUT  what do u precisely mean by oxidising the fat cells?......  does it help in losing weight? .... is it bad toxic?

My grandmother always added a dash of salt to the coffee grounds to decrease the bitterness of the coffee - got to remember this was when coffee was "boiled" not drip coffee makers or even perculators.  She also put egg shells in the grounds to decrease the bitterness but what health benefits I have no idea I never heard of such a thing.  too much sodium is bad and if you are drinking salt coffee YUK!!  Caffeine is a diuretic and sodium is a retainer so I would think the 2 would basically contradict each other???

Interesting.  Guess that explains why I can drink 8 oz of lemonade and pee a gallon.

   Just to add a trivial but kind of interesting side note...   the egg shells your grandmother put in the coffee weren't meant to decrease the bitterness but rather just to help settle the coffee grinds onto the bottom of the pot. 

I think I am going to try this out. How much lemon juice? fresh or not Ok? and can you use lime juice the same way?

It doesn't have any effect on your body.  A pinch of salt in coffee does bring out the flavor, but only a tiny amount.  I have to keep to a low sodium diet because old ladies like me have health problems, but I do put a tiny pinch in with the coffee when I'm brewing a whole pot. 

I remember my granny putting broken eggshells into the big pot of coffee to make it clear!  She swore by a cup of hot water with lemon wedge first thing every morning for her complexion, and she said it "wakes up the insides".  Even when she was very old she had beautiful skin, wrinkled, but pretty.  I don't know if the lemon water did it, but why not?

might try it, but i sorta expect just increasing my vitamin c intake by it:) i am sort of skeptical to this kind of stuff:)))