{"id":1140,"date":"2007-05-26T17:25:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T16:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-05-26T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T16:25:55","slug":"beverage-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Beverage of the gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I posted on the glory that is coffee, and how it can <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyplanet.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/02\/i-knew-i-was-right\/\">cut the risk of diabetes<\/a>. But wait, there&#8217;s more!<\/p>\n<p>Canadian researchers now say it can reduce the risk of gout. Now, gout may sound like an old-fashioned kind of ailment, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18866441\/\">this article<\/a> points out it affects about six million people in the US. What made me laugh is that for years people at risk of developing the painful joint condition &#8212; which is caused by uric build-up in the blood &#8212; were told to avoid coffee!<\/p>\n<p>The study team found drinking four or five cups a day can cut the risk by 40%, while drinking up to six cups can make it 50-60%. Decaf seems to work just as well, while tea does feck all.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, study author Dr Hyon Choi says the drink isn&#8217;t a treatment, but adds there&#8217;s no need to cut down if you have the condition already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I posted on the glory that is coffee, and how it can cut the risk of diabetes. But wait, there&#8217;s more! Canadian researchers now say it can reduce the risk of gout. Now, gout may sound like an old-fashioned kind of ailment, but this article points out it affects about six million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}