Coffee: A Liquid Blessing

Free radicals are bad guys, and they sneak into your body in all sorts of ways. Once there, they try to use healthy cells to make themselves whole and powerful, but they mostly just whack your health something fierce.

If you want to fight back against free radicals — and win — drink coffee. Caffeinated coffee, black.

Doctors routinely tell patients to get off the stuff, but there’s no research behind the “no coffee” shtick, and bunches of evidence saying coffee’s good for what ails you.

So let’s talk about how coffee does its fight-the-free-radicals work.

First, terminology. “Free radicals” are cells with missing …read more