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kleinbl00  ·  3701 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit | Mother Jones

Go find this article.

Granted, it's written by the president of Illy... but he is a biochemist. One of the statistics in there is that there have been over 100 studies on the effects of coffee and none of them have found anything negative.

nvm, here you go:

http://poplab.stanford.edu/pdfs/Illy-ComplexityCoffee-sciam02.pdf

    Coffee and caffeine have been the subject of extensive scientific study during the past quarter of a century, with 1,500 TO 2,000 PAPERS PUBLISHED EVERY YEAR on the topic. Despite this close scrutiny, few negative health effects have been definitively linked to the moderate consumption (TWO CUPS A DAY) of caffeinated coffee. In fact, recent work indicates that roasted coffee can be a good source of antioxidants.