Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Danish Treats

Think of it as a breakfast in bed, readers. 

Danish police arrest 2 men in terror plot

Danish court finds 4 guilty of terrorism

And what do you need with a couple of danishes? 

A cuo of coffee, of course!

"Coffee-drinking lowers risk of death, big study finds" by Marilynn Marchione  |  Associated Press, May 17, 2012

MILWAUKEE - After years of waffling research on coffee and health, and even worries that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn’t matter....

Even in the new study, it first seemed coffee drinkers were more likely to die at any given time. But they also tended to smoke, drink more alcohol, eat more red meat, and exercise less than non-coffee-drinkers. Once researchers took that into account, a pattern emerged: Each cup of coffee per day nudged up the chances of living longer.

The study was done by the National Institutes of Health and AARP and were published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. It doesn’t prove that coffee makes people live longer, only that the two seem related....

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I'm going to be here for you for a long time, readers -- providing we are not shut down, and can prevent WWIII and the culling of the herd. 

Also see: Fair Trade USA decision to include large coffee growers cause rift among fair trade groups

No offense, but even the second Globe cup of coffee didn't wash away the taste of s*** Danish.