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Yay, Coffee! (Oh, and Green Tea, too)

Via NPR:  A Daily Habit Of Green Tea Or Coffee Cuts Stroke Risk

Researchers found that the more green tea a person drank, the more it reduced the risk of suffering a stroke.

"It’s almost a 20 percent lower risk of stroke in the green tea drinkers" who drank four cups a day, compared with those who rarely drank green tea, explains Dr. Ralph Sacco of the University of Miami. (He’s the past president of the American Heart Association, and we asked him to review the study for us.)

And with coffee, researchers found just one cup per day was also associated with about a 20 percent decreased risk of stroke during a 13-year follow-up period.

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And, in addition, recent studies have linked a regular coffee habit to a range of benefits — from a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes to a protective effect against Parkinson’s disease.

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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Troy University. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. He is the author of Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia and is currently working on a comparative study of the US to 29 other democracies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging at PoliBlog since 2003. Follow Steven on Twitter

Comments

  1. Boyd says:

    Coffee, is there nothing it can’t do?

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  2. john personna says:

    I would image that 4 cups of green tea would correlate much more strongly with vegetable rich diets than would equivalent coffee.

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  3. john personna says:

    Ah, and both have inverse correlation to those large sodas ;-)

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  4. Franklin says:

    @Boyd: Yes. Taste good.

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  5. Fiona says:

    Ah coffee–the magic elixir.

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  6. M. Bouffant says:

    Pretty much living on coffee & aspirin these days.

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