Browse hundreds of pages of informative coffee materials adapted from Kenneth Davids' books. Includes a section on coffee and health.

Information about symptoms of caffeine addiction, calculating daily intake, withdrawal symptoms, and quitting gradually.

Answers to questions about the effects of coffee on health, provided by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee.

In a Dutch population, drinkers of seven or more cups of coffee a day were half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Journal reference: Lancet (vol 360, p 1477).

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports an association between coffee consumption and a reduced risk of diabetes in a Finnish population. (March 10, 2004)

Higher coffee and caffeine intake is associated with a lower incidence of Parkinson Disease in a study of Japanese-American men. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (May 24, 2000)

In a study of men in the United States, coffee consumption may have helped to prevent symptomatic gallstone disease. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, (June 09, 1999)