Drinking Coffee (Notes #2, 2010)

Finally, some good news. You won’t be punished for drinking coffee after all. Not by me, anyway. (My father-in-law and the Mormons think it is a sin, though.) In England at the University of Cambridge, researcher Yangmei Li and colleagues reported that drinking coffee lessens possibilities of stroke. They analyzed the health records of 20,000 European men and women over a twelve year period and found coffee drinkers were only 71 percent as likely to have a stroke as coffee avoiders. Like I needed this statistic to continue. Oh, and they say, it didn’t matter if the brew was drip, decaf or even lowly instant, nor if people drank one cup a day or four.  Source: Science News, March 2010