Coffee Decreases Risk of Death

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Quote by steve72

Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from heart disease,respiratory disease,stroke,injuries and accidents,diabetes,and infections,although the association was not seen for cancer

C'mon, it's clearly a miracle drug:

http://io9.com/5802717/coffee-now-do...revents-cancer

*ApplePion*

The effects of coffee are highly dependent on whether you have genes for fast or slow metabolism of caffeine. For example, people who have a particular slow metabolism gene have a greatly increased risk of heart attack if they drink coffee, while people with two of the analogous fast genes have a lower risk:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/en...&term=16522833

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ApplePion	The effects of coffee are highly dependent on whether you have genes for fast or slow metabolism of caffeine. For example, people who have a particular slow metabolism gene have a greatly increased risk of heart attack if they drink coffee, while people with two of the analogous fast genes have a lower risk: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/en...&term=16522833