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Coffee by the Tank Car Does Not Increase Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

By Peggy Peck, Managing Editor, MedPage Today
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
April 24, 2006
Also covered by: Forbes

MedPage Today Action Points

* Advise interested patients that this report found no association for consumption of total caffeine, decaffeinated coffee, or tea with coronary heart disease. Thus, these data provide no evidence that coffee consumption increases the risk of coronary heart disease.

* Explain to interested patients that drinking unfiltered French press or boiled coffee has been shown to increase LDL.

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BOSTON, April 24 – Gallons and gallons of coffee, day in and day out, year after year, decade after decade, do not increase the risk of coronary heart disease, researchers here reported today.

In fact, men and women who drank six or more cups of coffee a day for up to 20 years had a slightly lower relative risk of developing coronary artery disease than men who consumed a cup or less a day (P for trend= 0.41 for men and 0.08 for women) according to a study in the April 25 issue of Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Costa Coffee at Dubai airport

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MMI, the Dubai-based consumer and leisure brand marketing company, has opened of a Costa Coffee outlet at Dubai International Airport’s Arrivals Hall.

The opening of the new Costa store, the second to open in the UAE since the beginning of the year, is part of an ambitious expansion plan that will see the addition of 20 more stores in the country over the next 24 months, in iconic developments and strategic locations – such as the new venue at Dubai’s busy international airport.

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Coffee cup feud settled

Ottawa - A feud over a discarded coffee cup worth thousands of dollars in a fastfood chain contest has been settled in favour of a 10-year old girl, ending weeks of national debate in Canada over who should claim the prize.

"We have awarded an SUV to the parent of one of the little girls in Quebec (who contested ownership of the cup)," Jodi Bond, a spokesperson for the Tim Hortons coffee chain, told AFP on Wednesday.

Last month, the 10-year-old girl found the prize-winning coffee cup in the garbage at her Montreal area school, but was unable to "rrroll up the rim" to determine if it was a winner, so she asked an older girl for help.

The annual promotion urges coffee drinkers to check under the rim to look for millions of dollars in prizes, including a brand new Toyota sport utility vehicle worth C$28 000.

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Gloria Jeans plans first outlet in Delhi by July

Priyanka Sangani / Mumbai

Gloria Jeans Coffee's, one of the largest coffee chains in the world, will be opening its first outlet in Delhi by July this year.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Franchise and Retail Expo, Gaurav Marya, president, Franchise India Holdings, which is also the main consultant to the group in India, said the chain was planning a total of 750 outlets in the country over the next five to seven years. Of these, 150 would be set up within the next two years.

Marya said that there would be a couple of factors which would differentiate a Gloria Jeans outlet from the other coffee chains, notably the quality of the coffee (the company uses the top two per cent of the coffee produced in the world) and the service standards and ambience.

“The idea is to offer a five-star coffee shop experience, but at affordable rates. The chain would recognise the customers and their preferences,” he said.

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