Coffee is a health drink
Perhaps my greatest claim to fame - OK, OK - my only claim to fame - is my constant insistence that “coffee is a health drink”.
And despite the immense legions of detractors who seem to abhor anything that looks like brown water and which people enjoy consuming, and who conversely, nearly all tend to extol a nearly totally useless liquid like water, the facts are pretty clear, I’m afraid: there are way, way, way more studies showing that coffee has health benefits than studies showing that coffee is detrimental to health in any way.
And two more recent studies should come as body blows to the contra-coffee cranks, but because they refuse to listen (they would be better listeners if they drank coffee, I’m sure), these studies likely won’t do anything to change their minds.
First, a study of 37,000 people from the Netherlands followed for 13 years found that people who drank more than two, but no more than four, cups of coffee a day had a 20% lower risk of heart disease than people who drank no coffee at all (although in this study, people who drank more than 4 cups of Dutch coffee a day had roughly the same risk of heart disease as non-coffee drinkers).
And a second study published in the journal, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, found that people who drink coffee have fewer head and neck cancers than people who don’t drink coffee, and as in most studies on coffee (although not the one mentioned above), the more coffee people drink, the lower their risk of these malignancies.
If you don’t already drink coffee, I am not about to convince you to start (although . . . )
This info is more for those people who love their regular java juice and are sick of being constantly hounded to give it up: no need to do that because you are in fact, indulging yourself in a health drink.
Written by Dr. Art Hister
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 14:26
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