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Mark Thorson

wrote:
>
> I posted three studies ( did you even bother to read them), the other
> were stories. The studies were from places like Harvard Medical
> school, World Health, and York University, the stories just the New
> York Times, ABC News, and WebMD, you provided one.
> Just where do you drink coffee that's not been filtered? I use the
> unbleached filters, as do a fair number of resturants I frequent.

You didn't post any studies. You posted links to a press release
and some popular articles, not to any primary sources. Not one
addresses the safety question raised by the clinical study paper
I linked to. You can't reliably say coffee is safe if you only
consider the positive effects and ignore the negative effects.
You have to balance the risk vs. the benefit, and nothing you
linked to takes the cholesterol-raising risk into account in
determining the overall effect onn health.

You could post a hundred irrelevant press releases and
popular articles, and that would not discredit the study
published in the British Medical Journal one bit. There's
a huge difference between a popular article and a peer-reviewed
scientific paper. Quality is more important than quantity.

Virtually all French press and espresso coffee is
not filtered through paper filters. Without that,
the cholesterol risk is present.