Re: We Just Love to Hate Coffee

[Guest guest]

This is hilarious, a! I like their thinking. I guess I'll keep

drinking my coffee - and with a bit less guilt.

[ ] We Just Love to Hate Coffee

> >

> > April 10, 2002

> > NUTRITION NEWS FOCUS

> > " Nutrition news is important. We help you understand it! "

> >

> > Today's Topic: We Just Love to Hate Coffee

> >

> > If anyone can figure out why researchers think coffee causes every

> > problem in the book, let us know. Coffee has been linked to heart

> > disease, cancer, and abortions, and all these have been discredited

by

> > further research. The latest is that coffee increases blood

pressure

> > according to a report in the March 25, 2002 edition of the Archives

of

> > Internal Medicine.

> > < http://archinte.ama-assn.org/issues/v162n6/abs/ioi00946.html >

> >

> > Over 1,000 men were followed for 33 years. Drinking one cup of

coffee

> > a day raised blood pressure by 0.19 mm of mercury. And there were

> > more diagnosed cases of hypertension in the coffee drinkers than the

> > nondrinkers (28 versus 19 percent). But when all the results were

> > adjusted statistically for known risk factors such as body-mass

index,

> > cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and physical activity, the

effect

> > of coffee disappeared.

> >

> > HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Think about this

> > ... baseline coffee drinking was established when the men were

medical

> > students ... maybe they drank lots of coffee to stay up late

studying.

> > Maybe they changed their habits over 33 years. Now think about this

> > ... a blood pressure machine only reads to the nearest mm of

mercury,

> > so is extrapolating to fractions justified? Finally, think about

this

> > ... after accounting for confounding variables, there was no effect

of

> > coffee on blood pressure. But the news media kicked this story

around

> > for many days.