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From: andrew@hammer.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: coffee causes heart attacks?
Message-ID: <2630@hammer.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 11:40:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 17 11:40:51 1986
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So now the newspapers report on a study linking heavy coffee drinking
(five or more cups per day) to a doubled risk of heart attack.

The amusing part was the reaction from the coffee industry.  They
denied everything, attacked the report, claimed "insufficient
evidence."  Just like the tobacco industry's reaction to
cigarette-as-carcinogen reports.  I get an entirely different
perspective when the special interests are defending something so much
closer to home.

Of course, the newspaper account was non-technical.  Does anyone have a
more detailed account?

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]