Health: Comeback Time For Coffee

Let's have another cup and straighten this out

Can it be true this time? After all the up-and-down reviews that coffee has received from medical researchers over the years, is it now possible to savor the dark brew without pangs of guilt? Can it really be that an energizing jolt of java, so good for the soul, is not bad for the body either?

That is the momentous implication of the latest in an interminable line of coffee studies. It is tempting to pay attention to this one, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, since it represents a large-scale research effort and bears the prestigious...

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