So Coffee is More Good than Bad for You?

[alfreda89]

In evolving news -- coffee may be healing for you. You just need to figure out your own dose needs. Since I'm not supposed to have coffee with a med I'm trying, this is a slight problem. But -- there is evidence it helps with fatty liver disease, which is what killed my father. I don't eat like he did, but this does get my attention.

And I had a cup of good coffee this AM (with Irish butter, MCT and coconut oil, yum!) and I feel more focused. Bonus!

Now I need a coffee icon....

Comments

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Well, I couldn't jump through enough hoops at Atlantic to get my comment posted there on their coffee article, but the comment still on my clipboard, so here it is. ;-)

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It's not that scientists lie about results. It's that companies only ever publish the results of studies that show their product favorably.

And companies tend to fund studies of likely positive effects, rather than studies of likely negative effects.

But the overall logic gets interesting. We see a lot of positive effect studies from the industries that have the money to fund studies: coffee, tea, chocolate, wine. They have the money because people like those products. But we evolved to like those products, because their users survived and reproduced better....

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I'm quite stunned to find that I'm feeling better (slowly) with one cup a day of high quality single origin coffee. It would not surprise me to find out that the theories about people whose ancestors came from different parts of the world needing different foods to feed those ancient genes is correct. (That was unwieldy...hope it makes sense.)

Along those same lines, as you suggest, the people who used products well, survived and reproduced successfully would probably give that advantage/benefit/adaptation to their offspring.

Yum.