[moderatewolverine]

Excellent! I feel healthier already.

[mtbopfuyn]

"Caffeine is a safe and readily available drug and its ability to stabilise the blood brain barrier means it could have an important part to play in therapies against neurological disorders."

Instead of Ritalin, many kids could probably be helped more with a cup of coffee in the mornings. It seems in some that that the caffine has an opposite effect in calming them so they can concentrate and learn.

[backhoe]

Life is starting to imitate Sleeper- you wake up in the future and discover everything you were taught was bad for you is actually beneficial...

[livius]

Hmmm. I have my coffee with a slug of half-and-half every morning. Do they cancel each other out?

[varyouga]

I just stopped caring about these studies.

I just followed this advice, lost 80lbs and feel much better: The more natural, raw and un-refined a food is, the healthier it is for you. And the more variety, the better.

Additionally, if you eat all natural unprocessed foods I don't think it's possible to get obese. Foods in nature simply don't have the calorie density of processed foods.

Red meats are probably the most ‘dense’ foods that exist in nature and the fattiest ones are 2-3 calories/gram. Lean red meat is 1-2 and white meat can be less than 1. Fruits, potatoes and veggies are all around 0-0.5.

Processed sweets, condiments and fried foods can easily exceed 5-6 cals/gram. People were never meant to eat food this dense in virtually unlimited amounts.

Coffee can be natural and unprocessed(just roasted) so it should be good.

[DB]

Okay, what I want to know is will chocolate provide the same benefit???

[murphE]

Hmm, maybe the HMOs will pay for coffee!

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

ping.....I’ll start a pot right away.

[14erClimb]

Sheesh, my brain ought to be in mint condition then... I’ve been drinking coffee since I was 2. Thanks grandma!

[relictele]

It also protects others - once I’ve had a cuppa I’m less likely to strangle the idiots I encounter daily.

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dude.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

And reducing them to already-solved cases.

Cheers!

[Condor51]

But it works MUCH better if you have a cigarette with that coffee.

;-)

[Lee N. Field]

Daily caffeine 'protects brain'

That is good news.

"By the beans of java
my mind is set in motion
my hands aquire shaking
...."

[moderatewolverine]

Wanted to add this to the mix:

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=health&category=other.diseases.ailments&conitem=3ff6246a3669f010VgnVCM20000012281eac____

[Not gonna take it anymore]

... vital barrier between the brain and the main blood supply of rabbits fed a fat-rich diet was protected in those given a caffeine supplement

Why do they use rabbits for these studies? Rabbits can't process cholesterol, nor do they eat any fatty foods in nature.

[LIConFem]

If this is true, I’ll be sharp as a tack for 1000 years after I’m dead.

[bvw]

The worst thing is skim-milk and milk products made from skim, which are full of the short cholesterols that effectively block body channels.

[Pablo64]

I have always maintained that coffee is proof that, 1) There is a God, and 2) He loves us very much.

I'm now going to go pour a cup of Sumatra Blue Batak "Tarbarita" Peaberry, that was roasted fresh less than 24 hrs. ago.

Mmmmm.....

[Pit1]

You all might want to take a look at this information before you get that caffeine buzz today.

http://www.healthscience.org/content/view/127/81/

I found quitting caffeine as hard as quitting smoking and alcohol, but I did it.

[rottndog]

...Caffeine is a safe and readily available drug...

Then for god's sake, we must now have a government run program to provide it to the less fortunate. Now that it has a medical application, it has to be an entitlement.