Posted on 10/05/2012 4:32:22 PM PDT by Jyotishi
A new Harvard study has discovered a high incidence of vision problems among men and women who drank three or more cups of coffee a day. The research, published in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, http://www.iovs.org/content/53/10/6427.abstract?sid=9dd04ef5-beba-4204-b980-19a9afd4a3aa linked heavy consumption of caffeinated coffee with increased likelihood of developing exfoliation glaucoma, an eye disorder that affects about 10 percent of adults over age 50 and can lead to vision loss or blindness.
Specifically, the researchers reported that adults who drank three or more cups of coffee daily were 34 percent more likely to develop exfoliation glaucoma, compared to those who abstained from coffee. Women with a family history of glaucoma were at the highest risk, with their threat of exfoliation glaucoma soaring by 66 percent if they quaffed three or more cups of java per day.
Here’s a closer look at the study and what it means for coffee-lovers.
(Excerpt) Read more at health.yahoo.net ...
If the coffee comes from China, there’s a sure chance of blindness.
I guess I’ll go buy the white cane now, while I can still see it.
Starbucks may want to move their Star bucks to a bank somewhere where the shyster “lawyers” can’t get to it.
Nonsense.
I just can’t see that.
Neither of my parents ever wore glasses. Daddy died at age 90 and Mother at 86. They always had a pot of coffee on, at least during the daytime. When they got up in the morning, the first thing they did was start the coffee.
I know two examples aren’t statistically significant but I still doubt that study.
Read the story.
Helps prevent breast cancer.
30 or so years ago, a study like this showed that it caused breast tumors and caused many women to give it up.
Give up my coffee or give up my eyesight ... hmmmm. Decisions, decisions, decisions. ;-)
I drank some of Darks coffee once. Went blind for 3 days.
Wicket stuff.....
Oh yeah. Nasty stuff that is......
In a good way, of course.
Every man knows that BEER leads to vision loss (at least temporarily).
Worthless conjecture with too many variables.
Every man knows that BEER leads to vision loss (at least temporarily).
Wow! Me and my coffee cronies who lap up multiple cups of coffee every morning at the coffee shop should now be blind. The oldest are in their eighties and the youngest, in their sixties. No one going blind, yet.
I drink 10 or more cups of coffee a day. There is not any history of glaucoma in the family so I see no need to cut back.
Harvard is the training school for 0pansy like community organizers.
One item does not a study make.
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