Coffee – The “Healthy” Drink?
July 14, 2006 by Steve
Filed under Breaking News, Weblog
I’m up early getting ready to go to my Men’s breakfast bible study and enjoying a good cup of “joe”. I am a guy who loves getting up early and enjoying the quiet start to the day with some coffee, before the four kids wake up.I’ve been catching a numner of stories in the news telling me that coffee is good for you. Word is that coffee might help prevent cirrhosis of the liver and also benefit the heart, fight cancer, diabetes and Parkinson’s. Wow! – and I drank lots of coffee only because I like it! According to an article in the The Daily Record – UK – “Scientists at the Kaiser Permanente division of research, in Oakland, California, found that, in a study of 125,000 people, the risk of developing cirrhosis (a permanent scarring damage to the liver) was cut by 20 per cent in those who drank one cup of coffee a day. But that figure rose to 80 per cent with four cups a day, and general blood tests showed healthier liver results in those who were coffee drinkers.So, should coffee, once regarded only as a morning mainstay, now be reborn and repackaged as the most unlikely health drink?

