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Monday, December 5, 2005

Study Suggests Caffeine Can Help Liver

Perhaps Nestle can use this to help market their fermented coffee beer. From The Washington Post:
Coffee and tea may reduce the risk of serious liver damage in people who drink too much alcohol, are overweight or have too much iron in the blood, researchers reported yesterday.

The study of nearly 10,000 people showed that those who drank more than two cups of coffee or tea per day developed chronic liver disease at half the rate of those who drank less than one cup each day.
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