Good news for all you coffee addicts out there - it's now really, really good for you!
http://www.afp.com/en/news/packed-health-benefits-coffee-gains-ground-expertsPacked with health benefits, coffee gains ground with experts
Long viewed as a controversial dark substance, coffee is gaining ground among medical experts who say it can protect against heart disease, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes, even if it is decaffeinated.
But this year's recommendations said for the first time that coffee is not generally harmful, even multiple cups per day.
"We have found no negative, adverse effects on health when you drink up to three to five cups a day," she told AFP.
"In fact, there is a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease and a couple of cancers," including breast and prostate cancer, she said.
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I laughed at the concept of "3-5 cups" qualifying one as an "addict." Unless they're like 32 ounces at a time.
-- Mal
Sometimes more. But then, I owned a business and frequently had to work until 3 or 4 am to meet deadlines. Now I make half a pot, and usually wind up just reheating a cup of leftovers the next morning. But I turn 56 this Sunday, and I don't have any illnesses, am not on any medications. So yeah...it must have been all that coffee in my younger years!
I immediately started drinking more coffee again. The negative studies I ignore.
...anything is possible!
Ei! wie schmeckt der Kaffee süße,
Lieblicher als tausend Küsse,
Milder als Muskatenwein.
Oh, how sweet coffee tastes
Lovelier than a thousand kisses
Milder than muscat wine
I think I'd rather have the 1000 kisses (provided that they're from a nice woman )
That's probably why Liesgen wins out in the end
I'd still rather have the kisses, though.
And JSB certainly must have gotten his share of kisses (20+ kids with 2 wives) 
and going... and going...
Abusive alcoholics..... yeeesh.
Maybe enough coffee to wake up the chick hanging on wishing he'd change........... 
Oh no, not having a Throwback Thursday moment at alllll.
and it doesn't become bad again!
NAUGHTY COFFEE!! 
will publish contrary findings. 
I say, enjoy your coffee and forget the 'experts'.
Humans have known the benefits of tea and coffee for centuries. All this modern 'science' around them makes me laugh.
Now, that's a cuppa!
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I go into Starbucks or another coffee place out here every morning, and every morning, I am STILL blown away by the fact that, in a coffee shop line of 10 people or so, I am almost invariably the only person getting a coffee.
They're all getting these elaborate, candied drinks with whipped cream and chocolate and caramel dripped around them... some of these things are 400+ calories. And people consider them 'coffee'.
And it's why I became re-addicted!
