Read an interesting article in the Washington Times yesterday on coffee. Anything having to do with coffee is registering on my reticular activating system because of Ebenezers, the coffeehouse we’re opening on Capitol Hill. If you’re a coffee drinker this will ease your conscience Coffee had some great health benefits (unless you drink it by the gallon). Here’s a link to the entire article: No Jive: Java’s Good for health.

A recent study of more than 100 food items found that coffee tops the list in antioxidants. The average adult consumes 1,299 miligrams of antioxidants daily from coffee. The next closest competitor was tea at 294 miligrams.

A variety of studies seem to be finding new benefits to coffee. Daily coffee drinkers have half the risk of liver cancer. Coffee cuts the risk of developing the most common form of diabetes.

The moral of the story? Drink coffee. At Ebenezers