Posts Tagged ‘drinking’


Does Coffee Drinking Really Protect Against Devastating Diseases?

Image via Wikipedia Geoffrey C. Kabat is an author and cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. We are subjected on a regular basis to media reports about some new factor that may affect our health – either beneficially or adversely.  Many of these reports are based on the results of epidemiologic studies, [...]

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Why Are You Still Drinking That Boring Old Coffee?

Are you one of those die-hard traditionalists that thinks that Starbucks is an affront to everything that is good and righteous in this world? Or do you just think that all those fancy options you have for your coffee today are perversions on what is a very fine drink all by itself? If this sounds [...]

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Excessive Coffee Drinking May Cause Auditory Hallucinations

If you drink over five cups of coffee a day, you may start experiencing auditory hallucinations. Make it ten, you risk turning into a squirrel. The internet produces a constant string of scientific studies all proving that everything you do ruins your life. Take coffee: if you drink enough, eventually your teeth will fade to [...]

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Coffee drinking improves hepatitis C treatment response | Science Blog

Advanced hepatitis C patients with chronic liver disease may benefit from drinking coffee during treatment, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Patients who received peginterferon plus ribavirin treatment and who drank three or more cups of coffee per day were two times more likely [...]

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Drinking too much coffee can make you hear voices, warn scientists

And now for something complete different: Caffeine: Those who drank a large number of coffees were more likely to hear White Christmas in white noise IfF you keep hearing things that aren’t there, you’re probably drinking too much coffee. Just five cups a day could be enough to make your ears play tricks on you, [...]

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