Make mine a Venti

All of my life I’ve heard that coffee is bad for you, but no one can explain to me exactly what’s so bad about it (seriously, if you know feel free to leave a comment). I know that it stunts your growth, but I’m not nine so I don't care. I know it's supposed to make you jittery but I just call that a healthy burst of energy. I know it's addictive, but who cares if its not bad for you.

Since no one can explain the bad I'll give you the good. It tastes delicious, it cuts down your hunger pangs in the morning, it's a natural laxative, it tastes delicious, it gives you pep and oh yea, and it tastes delicious! Even more exciting is that coffee may actually have some real health benefits.

Drinking three or more cups of coffee a day may cut the risk of colon cancer in women by half, according to a study by Japanese scientists.

Researchers from Tokyo's National Cancer Center studied data from more than 96,000 men and women aged between 40-69 over a period of up to 12 years from 1990, a member of the team said on Wednesday. They found no significant benefit in men. [Sorry guys]…

Coffee is also good for your skin.

The combination of exercise and caffeine increased destruction of precancerous cells that had been damaged by the sun’s ultraviolet-B radiation, according to a team of researchers at Rutgers University.

Americans suffer a million new cases of skin cancer every year, according to the National Cancer Institute…

The researchers report in Tuesday’s issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science that they studied hairless mice in four groups. Some were fed water containing caffeine, some had wheels on which they could run, some had both and a control group had neither.

“The most dramatic and obvious difference between the groups came from the caffeine-drinking runners, a difference that can likely be attributed to some kind of synergy,” Conney said.

Compared with the control animals, those drinking caffeine had a 95 percent increase in apoptosis in damaged cells. The exercisers showed a 120 percent increase, and the mice that were both drinking and running showed a nearly 400 percent increase…

I suppose if you drink a vat of coffee a day it might have adverse affects but so does eating a vat of anything, so as the wise ancient Greeks used to say, moderation in all things.