{"id":937,"date":"2007-05-02T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2007-05-02T01:05:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T00:05:10","slug":"i-knew-i-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"I knew I was right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee, that (occasionally) sweet nectar of the gods, goddesses and their little babies, is good for you.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly I&#8217;m a touch biased. I love quality coffee and at thus stage should probably own shares in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireland-guide.com\/establishment\/cafe_gusto.4170.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gusto&#8217;s<\/a> little subsidiary cafe outside the Examiner&#8217;s offices. But now I have science to back up my claims of caffeinated magnificence!<\/p>\n<p>An experimental conference in Washington DC has heard claims that coffee can help ward off type-2 diabetes and even cut the risk of certain cancers.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to Dr Rob van Dam of the Harvard School of Public Health (not to be confused with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robvandam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whole F&#8217;N Show<\/a>), who stresses &#8220;it&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re promoting coffee as the new health food and asking people who don&#8217;t like coffee to drink coffee for their health&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another delegate, Dr Lenore Arab of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said there&#8217;s evidence coffee may protect against colon, rectal and liver cancer. However, there&#8217;s evidence it may increase the risk of leukemia and stomach cancer.<\/p>\n<p>More research is needed, although about 400 studies have been carried out on the substance, with more than 20 on the diabetes-preventing effects alone.<\/p>\n<p>Dr van Dam, incidentally, has largely ruled out caffeine as the wonder element, as both regular and decaf seem to have the same great effects.<\/p>\n<p>Is it wrong that I have a hankering for a mocha right about now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee, that (occasionally) sweet nectar of the gods, goddesses and their little babies, is good for you. Admittedly I&#8217;m a touch biased. I love quality coffee and at thus stage should probably own shares in Gusto&#8217;s little subsidiary cafe outside the Examiner&#8217;s offices. But now I have science to back up my claims of caffeinated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937"}],"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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}