Drink to your health?; Debate rages over benefits and risks of tea and coffee

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: June 26, 2006| Author: JOHN FAUBER | Copyright information

Coffee, tea or a cup of confusion?

When it comes to your heart, coffee has taken a couple of lumps in the last year, although in a recent large study it got a clean bill of health. Tea, on the other hand, consistently is portrayed as a heart-healthy beverage, although last month the Food and Drug Administration once again denied that claim.

Coffee and tea have been studied intensely in the last several years, and while medical science has yet to definitively decide how the popula...

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