Posted on 06/16/2008 8:21:54 PM PDT by blam
Guzzling coffee may cut heart disease
22:00 16 June 2008
NewScientist.com news service
Ewen Callaway
A strong cup of coffee in the morning can feel like a life saver. Now, one of the largest and longest studies of coffee drinking suggests that coffee may indeed boost your lifespan – providing you drink enough of the stuff, that is.
The study tracked 129,000 men and women over two decades. It found that people who consumed several cups of coffee every day were less likely to die of heart disease than those who shied away from the stuff. Heart disease is an umbrella term for conditions including heart attacks, stroke, and arrhythmia.
The researchers found that women who drank four to five cups per day were 34% less likely to die of heart disease, while men who had more than five cups a day were 44% less likely to die.
Consumption caution
The new report adds heft to the hypothesis that coffee can stem heart disease, perhaps by battling the inflammatory damage associated with early stage illness.
"It looks like coffee has some effect that hasn't been established before. The general idea is that coffee is not so bad," says study leader Esther Lopez-Garcia, an epidemiologist at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Yet Lopez-Garcia and other experts caution that it's too early for people to act on the study's findings.
"Before declaring that drinking up to seven cups of coffee per day is beneficial for health, we should wait for some other confirmation," warns Francesco Sofi, an epidemiologist at the University of Florence, who was not involved in the study.
The new study is not the first to connect coffee drinking with good health. Over the years, other
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Bad habit? My FRiend, coffee is a gift from God above. He created demerara sugar immediately afterwards to compliment it. He did it because he loves us and wants us to be awake to appreciate it!
Here's a quick discussion on the drum roaster I use.
Sounds great. What roast level?
Ditto - bottom line.
I could be guzzling Rock Star or other more potent stuff popular with yoots today, I view coffee as "less bad" at worst.
I drink 6 cups every morning—just to get my heart moving.
So the poor NCI, after spending all that money, had to bury the report and fall back on the stuff that works, the pliable and "interpretable" junk science of statistical correlations on self-selected samples of smokers, ex-smokers and non-smokers. What could they do, the antismoking scam had to go on and hard science (experiments) just would not cooperate and show that smoking is anything but good for the health of smokers.
Change the quack. Coffe cuases only a transient increase of blood pressure and heart rate, as do sex, laughing or physical workout. They are all good exercises strenghtening over time your cardio-vascular system. Coffe is also protective against senility and liver diseases.
Black coffee is a liver stimulator and flusher. Has to hot and black
From the article:
“The general idea is that coffee is not so bad,”
If coffeee is a gift from God above, how did the notion arise that it is bad?
Well, it's a given that some people will abuse generally everything.
Cheers!
Interesting how products previously considered “bad” have been getting a lot of good press the last few years: beer, wine, chocolate, marijuana, now coffee.
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