Coffee Maybe Not a Health Drink!

perbert writes "Canadian researchers have published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicating that excess coffee drinking (4+ cups a day) could lead to an increased risk of heart disease if you have the wrong gene. In light of other studies linking antioxidants in coffee to a reduction in heart disease, who is right? Or will they cancel out in a coffee death-match?"

Comments

Well,

[deletedaccount]

I've started injecting it, so I'm not sure how this applies to me.

What does this mean...

[dantheman82]

for the future of Java? For now, I'm drinking green tea and coding in C#.

Re:Who Cares

[TripMaster Monkey]

It is by coffee alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of the java bean that thoughts acquire speed.
The teeth acquire stains; the stains become a warning.
It is by coffee alone I set my mind in motion.

Apologies to Frank Herbert.

Studies have shown...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Studies have shown that research causes cancer in lab rats."

Totally offtopic about your signature

[fistfullast33l]

while ($beer != full) { $beer = new Beer(); chug($beer); }

So here's a small problem with your signature - you run the while loop until the beer is full...but you chug the beer inside the while loop. Which means that once your beer is full...you stop drinking. Of course, this is all dependent upon the fact that chug doesn't empty the glass, which is usually what happens when you chug...so basically I think you need to check the return of chug to make sure it didn't fail. Otherwise you might have problems.

Sorry for wasting your time.

Warning: This May Be Harmful To Your Health

[ackthpt]

"Coffee Maybe Not a Health Drink!" Gasp! :-)

From a life-long geek's perspective:

• I've sat for hours, for years in front of 25" colour TVs before they reduced radiation emissions.
• I've eaten countless bags of crisps flavoured with chemicals for visual and taste enhancements and dusted with MSG
• I've eaten countless pounds of fried foods
• I've made my share of /. typos (inadvertent and purposful)
• I've raced on a bicycle over 60 MPH downhill
• I've been hit with kilovolt shocks
• I attended dozens of indoors Hamfests, choked with the smog of hundreds of cigarettes, plus a few pipes and cigars.
• I've been run over by a car
• I've drunk a Mickey's Bigmouth
• I flew on a jet that bounced on the runway at Baltimore
• I fell out of a raft in the middle of Lost Paddle class V rapids in the Upper Gauley river of West Virginia
• I've collided with my brother's sled on an icy hill in Michigan, nearly fracturing my skull.
• I've been in 3 auto accidents
• I've lept off a 40 foot cliff into a flooded quarry
  • I'm not done yet.

    Regarding health, it will be bad for someone's if I don't get my coffee.