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- <text id=89TT3109>
- <title>
- Nov. 27, 1989: Coffee Alert
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 27, 1989 Art And Money
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MEDICINE, Page 56
- Coffee Alert
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Decaf brews raise cholesterol
- </p>
- <p> People who have switched to decaffeinated coffee for health
- reasons got a nasty jolt last week. At a meeting of the
- American Heart Association, Stanford researchers reported a
- study of 181 middle-aged men showing that among those who
- exchanged decaffeinated for regular coffee, levels of harmful
- LDL cholesterol rose an average of 7%. That could increase the
- risk of heart attack an estimated 12%.
- </p>
- <p> What causes the jump in LDL? Stanford's Dr. Robert Superko
- suggests the answer may lie in the coffee beans. Regular coffee
- uses the milder arabica variety, while decaf brews rely on the
- stronger robusta beans. More research is needed to pinpoint
- which of the more than 500 ingredients in the beans might be
- responsible.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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