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Coffee A Health Drink?

Yocto Yotta wrote to mention an article from The Independent which would seem to indicate that coffee has numerous health benefits, and could be construed to be a 'health drink'. From the article: "'A study has found that coffee contributes more antioxidants - which have been linked with fighting heart disease and cancer - to the diet than cranberries, apples or tomatoes...[antioxidants in coffee] have been linked to a number of health benefits, including protection against heart disease and cancer. Studies have associated coffee drinking with a reduced risk of liver and colon cancer, type two diabetes, and Parkinson's disease.'"

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  1. Re:Does This Count? by mr.mighty · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, just coffee. Having a coffee-flavoured milkshake thingie isn't the same.

  2. Re:Didn't see that coming by slashdot.org · · Score: -1, Troll

    Espresso, not expresso.

    What you need is a life, not alive.

    (ps. where I'm from they call it expresso. my bad for an imperfect translation...)

  3. Re:Didn't see that coming by moonbender · · Score: 0, Troll

    (ps. where I'm from they call it expresso. my bad for an imperfect translation...)

    Are you serious? What's the source language you're translating from, if you don't mind me asking. I've never heard about the stuff being properly referred to as expresso in any language. It's a somewhat common mistake though, I thought it was expresso, too - when I was twelve... ;)

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  4. Re:Dehydration causes cancer?? I think not. by 0x0000 · · Score: -1, Troll
    I'd like to see some documentation for that statement that you seemed to pull out from under your tin-foil hat.

    I'll just bet you would, at that. If, as you claim ...

    I am an oncology surgeon.

    ... then a known cause for cancer has the potential to put you right out of business, doesn't it?

    And why the hell would anyone "deign to argue" with you - an admitted scumbag memeber of the so-called "health" profession - when you open with assertions that the other individual is some kind of crack-pot consipiracy theorist for a simple statement?

    You want to argue with a conspiracy theorist, fuckwit, argue with me ... you haven't even scratched the surface of the unsupported logical assertions I can heap on your travesty of a claimed profession... Go roll some pills and sue a few more widows and orphans to cover the outrageous fees you demand for your so-called services - half-baked theories and un-informed desire to cut up living human beings - you murderous freak.

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  5. Coffee is like crack, and rotts your teeth too! by v3xt0r · · Score: -1, Troll

    not to mention that nasty coffee breath, whew *sip*

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  6. Re:the worst are always good for you in some ways. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It could be that the diabetes and the obesity have the same root cause, you know. You don't know nearly as much about health as you think you do so shut the fuck up.