For a couple of weeks now, I have been off of coffee. I thought it would better me by lowering my caffeine levels and what not. However, I discovered after quitting that I have low blood pressure and find myself needing sugar and salt throughout the day to not faint. I feel the same as I did with coffee, so no mental effects have come of it. But I recently noticed on Yahoo an article on coffee being “healthy.” As much as I’d love to believe it, I do not know if I can credit Yahoo. I am thinking about going back on coffee though, considering that I wake up at 6 AM and am running around a library for 7 hours. An apple or some sort of fruit keeps me going, but I am still in a slow heart range.  This is the article I speak of:  http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/ap/coffee-buzz-study-finds-java-drinkers-live-longer Here are my highlights: “Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn’t matter.” “The study was done by the National Institutes of Health and AARP. The results are published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.” “Careful, though — this doesn’t prove that coffee makes people live longer, only that the two seem related. Like most studies on diet and health, this one was based strictly on observing people’s habits and resulting health. So it can’t prove cause and effect.” “Even a single cup a day seemed to lower risk a little: 6 percent in men and 5 percent in women. The strongest effect was in women who had four or five cups a day — a 16 percent lower risk of death.” Hu had this advice for coffee lovers: — Watch the sugar and cream. Extra calories and fat could negate any benefits from coffee. — Drink filtered coffee rather than boiled — filtering removes compounds that raise LDL, the bad cholesterol. Coffee, we might get back together! :P