I had not heard that coffee did anything for the liver. Pretty old news now (coming up on almost ten years), but I know coffee has been associated with reduced (as in lower rates of) Parkinson's disease over people who don't drink coffee, but it's unknown if it's a cause and effect or what the connection is. Coffee is supposedly high in flavonoids, the phytochemicals also found in wine and chocolate. It's so high, in fact, that in the non-vegetable eating populations of the U.S., coffee is a primary source of flavonoids. That's probably saying more about how few vegetables people eat than about how good coffee is. Tea is also very healthful, possibly more so than coffee. I'm not sure if has flavonoids but it has other compounds (catechins I believe) that are just as powerful. Even alcohol, in moderation, is good for the brain and the heart. It doesn't matter if it's wine or beer or the hard stuff. In more than low to moderate amounts it's destructive. Most likely we evolved ingesting small quantities of alcohol in the form of fermented fruits that we little hominoids found lying around. Interestingly, coffee doesn't raise blood pressure, but caffeinated soda does. It's unclear why. Nutrition is still my favorite subject. > [Original Message] > From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 6/13/2006 12:24:36 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bizarre Side Effect of Drinking Coffee > > There was another study which seemed to show that coffee mitigated the > ill effects of alcohol on the liver. Sounds like good news...I think > you had to drink lots of coffee and lots of alcohol to get the effect, > though. > Enjoy... > Ursula > > Omar Kusturica wrote: > > >*I've long been given to drinking large amounts of > >coffee (mostly at daytime) as well as large amounts of > >alcohol. (mostly at nightime) I've always thought > >about them as opposite extremes, I guess that I'll try > >to rethink the relation now. (Though it will probably > >have to wait until I am in the coffee stage.) > > > >O.K. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html