Coffee versus tea in charts

Anahad O’Connor, Aaron Steckelberg and Garland Potts, for The Washington Post, made charts that compare the benefits of coffee and tea. But let’s be honest here. All we really want to see in a battle between coffee and tea is an anthropomorphic bean and leaf wrestle.

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Cholesterol and coffee ok, plus head transplants soon?

  Dietary committee not sweet on sugar So, what’s most noteworthy about the big fat report just issued by the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC)?  The declaration that dietary cholesterol is next to irrelevant? DGAC’s casual endorsement of coffee? … Continue reading »

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Science for The People: Coffee & Cigarettes

sftpThis week Science for The People is learning about some of the legal chemicals that regulate the moods of millions of people every day. Journalist Murray Carpenter joins them to talk about his book “Caffeinated – How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us.” And science blogger Dr. David Gorski explains the state of research on the effects of e-cigarettes.


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