Posted by hawkeye on February 28, 2004, at 13:40:39
In reply to COFFEE- augmenting antidepressants????, posted by ace on February 27, 2004, at 21:33:59
Coffee Won't Grind You Down: May Reduce Risk of Suicide, Study Concludes
By William J. Cromie
Gazette Staff
Go ahead and have that second cup of coffee, even a third or fourth cup. You may be protecting yourself against depression and suicide.
Women who drink two, three, or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to commit suicide than non-coffee drinkers, according to a Medical School study of 86,626 nurses. That rather startling conclusion comes less than a month after another study of the same women excluded coffee as a cause of heart disease.
These results apply equally to men, other research has found. For example, a check of 120,000 people in northern California showed substantially the same lowering of suicide risk for two, three, even six or more daily cups of coffee for both sexes.
"You always hear about coffee and caffeine being bad for your health," notes Ichiro Kawachi, assistant professor of medicine. "Our studies have found no basis for implicating coffee in any serious long-term health effects."
More here at: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/03.14/CoffeeWontGrind.html
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