Tuesday, August 30, 2005

antioxidants

Read an interesting article in the Washington Times yesterday on coffee. Anything having to do with coffee is registering on my reticular activating system because of Ebenezers, the coffeehouse we're opening on Capitol Hill. If you're a coffee drinker this will ease your conscience :) Coffee had some great health benefits (unless you drink it by the gallon). Here's a link to the entire article: No Jive: Java's Good for health.

A recent study of more than 100 food items found that coffee tops the list in antioxidants. The average adult consumes 1,299 miligrams of antioxidants daily from coffee. The next closest competitor was tea at 294 miligrams.

A variety of studies seem to be finding new benefits to coffee. Daily coffee drinkers have half the risk of liver cancer. Coffee cuts the risk of developing the most common form of diabetes.

The moral of the story? Drink coffee. At Ebenezers :)

6 Comments:

At August 30, 2005 2:29 PM, Anonymous lanny donoho said...

hey i wrote a comment under another post but just wanted you to know that i like your thoughts. As Einstein said "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Sounds like you have a good amount of both.
Read my other comment.
thanks
Lanny donoho

 
At August 30, 2005 2:33 PM, Blogger Mark Batterson said...

Love that quote!

How apropos!

By the way, I think you got an overdose of imagination Lanny :) I think you need to work on your left-brain :) The rest of us will work on our right-brain :)

Mark

 
At August 30, 2005 5:13 PM, Blogger Kevin said...

I heard that about coffee yesterday on Oprah (umm...I mean some other show. I don't watch Oprah).

 
At August 30, 2005 5:20 PM, Blogger Mark Batterson said...

Oprah who?

I don't even know who that is?

It's not like I stood in line and went to a show when I lived in Chicago. I would never even admit something like that even if it happened.

 
At August 30, 2005 11:15 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oprah-Uma....
Uma-Oprah....

 
At August 31, 2005 10:07 AM, Blogger jh said...

funny about oprah-

i was at a 10 day campus ministry seminar once and there was a guy teaching a class about post-modernism.

he called oprah the post-modern queen and britney spears was the post-modern princess... lol

oprah is a christian with christian guests, a buddhist with buddhist guest, etc...
and we all know about dear old britney singing 'jesus loves me' at her record deal audition :)

*hasler

 

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