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Conventional Coffee Views Disputed
Coffee has traditionally been regarded as a villain when it comes to heart disease but new research may have turned conventional wisdom on its head.
Dietician Chiara Trombetti of the Humanitas Gavazzeni institute in the northern Italian town of Bergamo says that far from giving you palpitations, coffee helps improve the circulation within the heart.
It's the tannin and antioxidants that do it. And if that's not recommendation enough, she says it can also help prevent cirrhosis of the liver, stave off gallstones and relieve headaches. What's more, asthma attacks could be reduced by coffee's caffeine content.
With some clever marketing this kind of knowledge may be just the thing to revitalise the world’s ailing coffee industry.
A large-scale, long-term study of Finnish men and women indicates higher coffee consumption can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The researchers, whose study appears in the March 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, can't explain the association, but they do have some theories.
"There are many potential effects, since coffee has very many compounds, including magnesium, caffeine, chlorogenic acid, etc.," says study author Dr. Jaakko Tuomilehto, of the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki. "Maybe chlorogenic acid is the most potent, but it is possible that the presence of several active agents at the same time will enhance the effect of coffee on the risk of type 2 diabetes."
Finnish people drink more coffee per capita than any other nationality, the study’s authors point out. Women who drank three to four cups of coffee per day had a 29 percent reduced risk of diabetes. Those who drank at least 10 cups a day had a 79 percent reduced risk. Men who drank three to four cups of coffee a day had a 27 percent lower risk while those who drank at least 10 cups a day had a 55 percent lower risk.
However anyone seeking to go on a coffee binge to reduce their risk of diabetes would do well to remember that coffee consumption at such high levels may prove to have negative side effects.
(From an original article by Amanda Gardner, HealthDay reporter)
Ethiopians Sing For Coffee
In Ethiopia coffee producers have used a novel way to bring attention to their plight. Ethiopian music and soccer stars decided to add their voice to the ‘Big Noise’ campaign that aims to achieve a fair price for coffee growers.
The petition campaign, organised by Oxfam International, Panos and the Ethiopian coffee unions, attracted the high-profile support of the likes of gold medal winning marathon runner Haile Gebrselassie. Fittingly, musician Teddy Mosisa wrote a song, ‘Buna’ (an Amharic word meaning coffee) - in the campaign’s honour.
It is hoped this mass action will maintain pressure on the industrialised world to fulfil their promises of ending the many injustices in the global coffee trading system.
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