Coffee as health food

Science has spoken, and the verdict is to please keep passing the java. Not only does coffee help give people that much-needed jump-start so many of us desperately need, but our beloved dark beverage evidently has health benefits, too. The latest research shows about two cups a day provide the body with more cancer-fighting antioxidants than any other food.

Coffee lovers owe University of Scranton chemistry professor Joe Vinson for one more reason to keep drinking coffee. Coffee, he told the American Chemical Society’s annual convention in Washington, has more antioxidants than vegetables, fruit, and grains, hands down.

“Coffee wins the antioxidant race,” he said. “Nothing else we eat or drink comes close.”

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