Coffee!

An item in the Daily Dish this morning reminded me that I've been meaning to post about coffee and it's health benefits. I've been collecting these stories for awhile:

• Today's latest item suggest that coffee may protect the brain against dementia
• It had separately been found to protect against Parkinson's disease
• Java has also been found to protect against liver damage caused by alcohol (yee haw!)
• It's also found to help the cardiovascular system (I've read a research report that I've now misplaced (dementia? :-) which stated that after a short-term boost in blood pressure, coffee drinkers adapt and return to their baseline pressue; interestingly, the same was not true for people who drank caffeinated sodas--their blood pressure remained elevated indefinitely)
• A couple of general articles about coffee's benefits: one and two

So make a barista happy and order a cup today. ;-)