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Coffee's good for us again

Drink up! Soon enough they'll announce that it's bad for us (again).

(And tea. And wine. And eggs. And anything else humans have been consuming without problems for hundreds and thousands of years.)

"While coffee was once considered questionable for your health, researchers at Harvard Medical School have found the beloved beverage is actually healthful in moderation. That means a few cups a day.

"Harvard researchers say drinking coffee may help prevent diseases such as...

"Last month, a study led by Neal Freedman of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., showed that people with chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease who drank three or more cups of coffee a day cut their risk of the disease progressing by 53 per cent."

More here.

Caffeine: my drug of choice.

"We put all our future into our children"

"Ottawa artist Paula Zoubek grew up hearing stories about the little girl who almost became her sister.

"In September 1939, her parents were set to flee Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. They had pledged to take 12-year-old Anna Klausnerova with them to Canada...

"It wasn’t until after the Second World War ended that the family heard Anna and her mother had perished in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz concentration camp."

Read it all. Her artwork is beautiful.