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July 21, 2008

Is Coffee Good For You? »

One of the largest studies about the health affects of coffee was published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study found that regular coffee consumption is not associated with increased mortality. Rather, consumption of both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee was found to be associated with lower rates of death from heart disease. So should everyone be drinking coffee? Well, that is a complicated question. Although the recent study demonstrated a benefit from drinking coffee on a population level, it is difficult to make individual recommendations for safe coffee consumption. According to Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy of the University of Toronto, safe daily caffeine intake is different from one person to the next due to our bodies’ varying abilities to process caffeine. “That’s why numerous studies have associated coffee consumption with both an increased and a decreased risk for many chronic diseases,” he said. So, again, it appears now that the jury is still out…for coffee. Full story.

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Posted by Steven / July 21, 2008 12:00 am / Permalink / Comments (0) / Trackbacks (0)