Re: Re: blueberries and coffee

[Guest guest]

Aha. I thought there must be some sort of tie there. It just made coffee

sound like the best thing since sliced bread (which of course we now know is

not the best thing either!).

The insidious thing though is that there was no mention of these links to

coffee groups below in the article. Another big hint that they weren't

neutral was the promotion of 2 to 4 cups a day . Sounded like an awful lot

of coffee to me.

on 11/14/2004 11:37 AM, Nofziger at joelnofziger@... wrote:

> I was interested in the coffee part and found that Dr.

> discussed the coffee research. Dr. happends to be the director of

> the Institute for Coffee Studies, established by a consortium of

> coffee-producing countries (Brazil, Colombia, and a coalition of Central

> American nations) under the auspices of the Association of Coffee Producing

> Countries (ACPC), the National Coffee Association of the USA, and the All

> Japan Coffee Association. I didn't look up all those organizations, but at

> least one of these, the National Coffee Association of the USA, is a

> lobbyist group.

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> I'm particularly interested in these kinds of ties, as I believe corporate

> interests directly affect public health. The folks in the food business

> rely on a society that consumes more and more, which is exactly what CR is

> not about. As Americans suffer and become increasingly obese, people in

> food business get richer.

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> Peace,

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> http://www.coffeescience.org/media/disease

> http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/coffee/about.html

> http://www.ncausa.org/public/pages/index.cfm?pageid=33

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