Brazil Seeks to Show Coffee’s Health Benefits

Monday, November 24th, 2003

Brazil Seeks to Show Coffee’s Health Benefits:

Brazil, the world’s No. 1 coffee producer, hopes to convince people to drink up — and ease a global crisis caused by oversupply — by proving that coffee is good for you.

The country that offers school children “coffee breaks,” plans to try to show that coffee can help reduce heart disease, countering the conventional wisdom that coffee causes health problems including anxiety and hypertension.

In other news, Columbia is studying the health benefits of cocaine. (OK, I made that one up.)

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