Marie McCullough over at the Philadelphia Inquirer aggregates this year's top stories on the benefits of the daily grind. She mentions two of the stories that I've already written about, cutting the risk of diabetes, and offsetting the risk of liver damage. But her introduction to her story sets the appropriate jittery, nervous laughter invoking tone to the subject of drinking brown water strained through the guts of burned seeds.
Over the centuries, coffee has been cursed for making soldiers undependable, women infertile, peasants rebellious, and worse.
In England in 1674, for example, the anonymous authors of the Women's Petition Against Coffee complained that they were suffering in the bedroom because men were constantly in coffeehouses, slurping that "nauseous Puddle-water":
"That Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor called COFFEE... has... Eunucht our Husbands... that they are become as Impotent as Age."
Yummy, gimme another cup!
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