Coffee: Emerging Health Effects and Disease Prevention

Coffee is one of the most beloved beverages in the world, making it the second most traded commodity in the world (just behind crude oil). The conventional notion that drinking coffee might be detrimental to human health derives from studies carried out in the 1950s and 1960s. This research failed to account for cigarette smoking which, as was discovered later, confounded and masked coffee's benefits. Since then, and especially since the new millennium, research evidence for coffee's health...