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mk · 4742 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why I'm eating less bacon.

True enough. And yet, people eat like that.

I used to deliver for Pizza Hut and there were some folks that would order no less than 2 meatlovers a week. This wasn't family pizza night either. It was dinner for one. I'm pretty sure that their other meals were not much better.

Of course, those folk aren't very likely to read or be influenced by this type of study.

As an aside, I'm happy that coffee has been found to be a good thing. That's the one thing that I have daily.

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kleinbl00 · 4742 days ago · link ·

There was an interesting article in Scientific American a number of years ago contributed by the chief scientist at Illy. he pointed out that any number of studies have been done to prove that coffee in general and caffeine in particular are bad for you, and every single one of them has found some sort of positive (albeit often negligible) health benefit.

Now on the one hand, this is the chief scientist at Illy. It's kind of like trusting the chief scientist at RJR when he tells you that cigarettes don't cause cancer. On the other hand, he had a lot of data to back him up.

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mk · 4742 days ago · link ·

I tend to buy it. I've read a lot of these studies actually. One reason why it's not too hard to believe, is because coffee has a lot of antioxidants in it. So it's like a daily free radical sweep.

Also, there might be some benefit from the temporary increase in blood pressure from drinking it. Maybe like exercise, it extends vascular tone. At least in women, it seems to protect against heart disease.

At any rate, I drink organic stuff.