The Science Behind Coffee and Why it's Actually Good for Your Health

Horrbily one-sided. Wikipedia's article has both ways coffee is good and is bad for you.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee</a><p>The important thing is that the dosage makes the the medicine of poison, and that while drinking two or three cups a day may be better for your health than not drinking coffee, drinking ten cups a day is bad for you.

All rings true to me both from my intuition and personal experience, HOWEVER... They only briefly mention not to put sugar in your coffee. I think this is a gross understatement, when all I see everywhere is people walking around with bucket-sized cups of cream and syrup (plus a little espresso).<p>If anything, our consumption of coffee may have spurred the diabetes epidemic by encouraging people to indulge their cream and sugar cravings all day long, in a socially-encouraged and -reinforced way...

Cool, let's just ignore the science of "coffee is bad for you" folks. Everything has to be so fucking simple now - it's either good for you or it's bad for you. Screw the other interacting variables.

We each have 20k different genes and infinite combinations of genetics, environment, behavior etc.<p>But the good news is everything is binary - it is all either good or bad - for all of us.

Interesting article and I do enjoy my one cup of coffee (with Splenda™, brown sugar and milk) per weekday <i>but</i> . . .according to the article: <i></i> “Drinking coffee is associated with a drastically reduced risk of type II diabetes” and <i></i>“Coffee is associated with a much lower risk of dementia and the neurodegenerative disorders Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.” and <i></i>“Coffee consumption has been associated with a lower risk of death in prospective epidemiological studies, especially in type II diabetics.”<p>Being “associated with” is pretty meaningless; it’s <i>not</i> the same as being statistically correlated with. The article also states “In fact, coffee is the biggest source of antioxidants in the western diet, outranking both fruits and vegetables combined”. I view that more as an indictment against the western diet, not an endorsement of coffee as a source of antioxidants.

Yes, but how does it compare with tea?

Every time I drink coffee, I get mini-seizures. It's like my brain becomes TOO over-active, and causes it to work faster/harder than it is capable of. I stay away from coffee all the time as a result.

A lot of bold claims here. It's unfortunate that the article focuses solely on the potential benefits of caffeine/coffe but glosses over the possibility of there being any risks associated with them. That being said, I applaud the author for providing references for all the claims he makes!

Enough said! Now I am doing my MONSTER ITALIAN Espresso!