Tuesday, September 13, 2005

When the bad habit becomes a good one-- Yeah!

My daily iced coffee habit just turned a corner... a new study claims coffee high in anti-oxidants:

"Remember when coffee was the enemy? That was only about five or six years ago. Many of us looked down our noses at java addicts, clucking about the stress, high blood pressure and even heart disease that drinkers might be inflicting upon themselves.

How times have changed! Today we know that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes, a disease that’s poised to be a huge health threat in the fattest of Western nations. Moreover, it’s the coffee drinkers who are most addicted to the brew that seem to reap the most benefit..."

Read the the full article: Kudos to Coffee by Willow Lawson, the news editor at Psychology Today.

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