The coffee buzz

By Susan Morse

Drinking coffee is good for you, according to study after study, the most recent released last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association Archives of Internal Medicine.

Coffee reduces the risk of Type 2 diabetes, it said, the result explained not by caffeine, but minerals and antioxidants in both decaffeinated and caffeinated coffee.

ABC News ran with the story in a recent "Good Morning America" segment, and previously reported on its Web site, abc.news.go.com, that daily cups of coffee have been linked to a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease, liver cancer and gallstones.

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