And how do we know that this isn't among the one out of three (or was it out of two?) studies that won't hold up under further scrutiny?

Who cares? It's an excuse for an addiction.

I though green tea had more antioxidants than any other beverage? Maybe its not considered to be a part of the American diet.

I blame the tea lobby for pushing green tea over coffee. Just another attempt by effete veggie pacifist anti-corporate types to emasculate Americas over-caffienated competitive spirit.

Green tea has caffeine.

I think the stydy says that coffee in the diet provides the most antioxidents that Americans actually get, not that coffee was the best source of antioxidents. Since I would rather drink acid than tea of any kind, its good news.

As OJ says, who cares that later studies contradict this, its always good to point to a study to support behavior.

How's the study on hot fudge being the cure-all for all disease doing?

Posted by: erp at August 29, 2005 2:04 PM

If bread is the staff of life, then coffee is life itself.

-Anonymous

erp:

Well, there is this:

Dark Chocolate Is Healthy Chocolate

By Daniel DeNoon
Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Dark chocolate [...] lowers high blood pressure, say Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Cologne, Germany. Their report appears in the Aug. 27 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. [...]
Dark chocolate -- but not milk chocolate or dark chocolate eaten with milk -- is a potent antioxidant, report Mauro Serafini, PhD, of Italy's National Institute for Food and Nutrition Research in Rome, and colleagues. Their report appears in the Aug. 28 issue of Nature. Antioxidants gobble up free radicals, destructive molecules that are implicated in heart disease and other ailments.
"Our findings indicate that milk may interfere with the absorption of antioxidants from chocolate ... and may therefore negate the potential health benefits that can be derived from eating moderate amounts of dark chocolate."

Just one ounce of a very special chocolate packs more than twice the healthy antioxidant punch of red wine or other dark chocolates.

Dove Dark, made by Mars, Inc., contains Cocoapro cocoa, a proprietary, specially processed cocoa that contains super high levels of flavanols - so high that Dove Dark is used in medical research. Cocoa is rich in antioxidant flavonoids, called flavanols, which include procyanidins, epicatechins and catechins. Studies show that people with high blood levels of flavonoids have lower risk of heart disease, lung cancer, prostate cancer, asthma and type 2 diabetes.

Several studies have shown the the heart-healthy effects of chocolate's antioxidants. One study found that people who ate a diet rich in cocoa powder and dark chocolate had lower oxidation levels of bad LDL cholesterol, higher blood antioxidant levels and 4 percent higher levels of good HDL cholesterol.
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So...
DARK chocolate, NOT MILK CHOCOLATE, and not over ice cream.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at August 29, 2005 5:02 PM

Still waiting to learn that smoking is healthy, too. And I'll be puffing away til it comes out - and afterwards too.

Since when has OJ trusted studies?

As long as it's supporting him OJ has no problem whatsoever worshipping at the altar of science.

It's not science, just justifying a jones.