A Dose of Java A Day
• The first European coffee was sold in pharmacies in 1615 as a medical remedy.
• Wild medical contraptions used to exist to administer a mixture of coffee, heated butter, honey and oil to treat the sick.
• For reducing wrinkles and improving their skin, the Japanese have been known to bathe in coffee grounds fermented with pineapple pulp.
• Regular coffee drinkers have about 1/3 less asthma symptoms than those of non-coffee drinkers according to a Harvard researcher who studied 20,000 people.
• Coffee provides more Cancer-fighting antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet. (Joe A. Vinson, University of Scranton)
• Two to four cups of coffee a day may lower the risk of liver disease, Cancer, Clogged Arteries, Parkinson�s disease, Alzheimer�s and Diabetes. (N.Y.Academy of Sciences.
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