Coffee for your health

Coffee for your health! It is not often that you hear anything good about caffeine, but there’s a report in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that the chemical may protect against Parkinson’s disease. In a study that spanned 30 years, researchers found that men who drank 3 to 4 cups of coffee a day were only one fifth as likely to develop Parkinson’s as those who abstained. This is exciting information (and reassuring for those of us who need that jolt of caffeine in the morning). But it is only one study. And whether we can extrapolate the results to women, Nancy Snyderman, M.D., just don’t know, and don’t think anyone else does either. – Stella G. de Dios, M.D