Can coffee be healthy?

I tttthinkkk ittt is vvvery healttthy.

Coffee isn’t particularly unhealthy, except in larger amounts.

Spam?

didn’t go look

There are other sites out there talking about coffee being healthy as well. Not just this one. Here is one, but this is the mushroom coffee. http://www.ganobrand.com/ I want to know about real coffee.

Alrighty then. You’re real. Welcome to fluther. That was a strange first link – straight to a 25% off ad for some coffee. But now I get it.

No problem. Here is an article on MSNBC that kicked off my question. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15823127/

Oops. I did flag it as spam. Sorry.

Hope the mods read before deleting.

The trick is moderation. A glass of red wine is healthy – a whole bottle, not. An aspirin a day is, a bottle of aspirin in one shot, not. A cup or two of coffee a day is fine, and has healthful qualities as the many scientific studies have shown.

I also flagged it as spam because of the link to the ad – but the mods are smarter and will read these posts first. In future though, @Bjboyle – you might want to put the scientific study first – commercials and ads later. ;-)

sorry, I am new to this fluther thing. Cool concept. Makes you wonder why there are experts anymore!!!

I heard a story on NPR a day or two ago that said there was a new study that said coffee might keep alzheimers at bay.

Comment from that article, “This is a load of poppycock. It validates people’s addictions, and encourages this huge money market.”

This is the problem. It seems that even when the “experts” put something out there, we are too synical to believe it.

Well, non-fair-trade coffee does hurt a lot of poor, hard-working people.

dpworkin – I am in the wood and forestry industry and I can tell you that the FSC and SFI credits are a scam that makes people feel better. I am not totally buying in to the fair-trade credits either.

Yes, it might reduce the risk of getting type 2 diabetes.

@wundayatta I read an article last week, I think in a Food Network magazine, that said the same thing about coffee except that particular benefit only seemed to apply to women. If it’s true, I’ll be sane until I’m 106.

I can’t say either way if coffee is healthy, but I have read that organically grown coffee is better than standard coffee.

The beans are porous enough to actually soak up pesticides and fertilizers so according to this, it is more healthy to drink organic coffee.