Coffee Drinkers Unite! It seems there's controversy in the risk/benefit assessment of most any food, nutrient, activity or behavior. And if we personally partake of or enjoy something in our lives we love to shout out the good news, yes? So read on coffee lovers... and if you want the whole story, the link is at the bottom of this post. My coffee caveat? Must be organic, fair trade, and fresh!
Be Well, Janis
The following includes selected excerpts from the complete article.
Moderate Coffee Drinking Reduces Many Risks, Panel Says Science Daily — Although the American Society for Nutrition's popular "controversy session" at Experimental Biology 2007 focuses on the health effects of coffee drinking, panel chair Dr. James Coughlin, a toxicology/safety consultant at Coughlin & Associates, says that recent advances in epidemiologic and experimental knowledge have transformed many of the negative health myths about coffee drinking into validated health benefits.
...moderate coffee consumption (3-5 cups per day) may be associated with reduced risk of certain disease conditions, such as Parkinson's disease. Some research in neuropharamacology suggests that one cup of coffee can halve the risk of Parkinson's disease. Other studies have found it reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease, kidney stones, gallstones, depression and even suicide.
...distinguished researchers discussed some of the benefits - and a couple of the remaining increased risk factors (possible increase in blood pressure and plasma homocysteine) - on April 30 at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington, DC.
In recent epidemiological studies in the U.S., Europe and Japan, persons who were heavy coffee consumers had a lower risk of type 2 diabetes than persons who consumed little coffee. Interestingly, he says, associations were similar for caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee, suggesting that coffee components other than caffeine may be beneficial for glucose metabolism.
The article continues with a discussion by Dr. Lenore Arab, a nutritional epidemiologist in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, of the net results of numerous coffee-cancer studies.
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