Oh - on the studies about coffee -- I haven't pulled them -- but Im skeptical. I know a lot are industry funded studies -- I think the probability is that coffee (like a lot of plants) is fantastic in medicinal settings -- but I was to the point where I drank 24 ounces a day --- not medicinal. Addictive. 

Matthewlysiak

I'm Matthew Lysiak - Author of Fiat Food! LFG!

Appreciate the question - hope this helps ---"When egg prices rose in the spring of 1966 and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told him that not much could be done, Johnson had the Surgeon General issue alerts as to the hazards of cholesterol in eggs." - this is from an aide to LBJ Joseph Califino as quoted by Robert Samuelson in the Great Inflation and its aftermath