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naner on Feb 19, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Good sleep, good learning, good life

Any coffee before lunch is just a placebo really.

I find this hard to believe. And it would be pretty easy to test using decaf coffee in a double-blind trial.

robryan on Feb 20, 2013 [–]

You would need people that have been caffeine free for a long time as to not have withdrawals effect the results. I would assume there would be a lot of variables in people caffeine responses which would be hard to control.

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