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EARTHDATE: October 21, 2012

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REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU COFFEE WAS BAD FOR YOU!

by Hazed

Put down the coffee cup. Stop drinking immediately. Don’t you realise how dangerous it is? Why, you could go blind!

The latest health scare comes from a new study which has discovered that drinking more than three cups of coffee a day could increase your risk of developing glaucoma - which in turn can lead to vision loss or blindness.

Crikey!

It’s been known for some time that people who suffer from glaucoma can have problems with coffee, because the drink can increase the pressure in the eyeball. The new study looked at 78,977 women and 41,202 men who, at the start of the research, did not have glaucoma. The results showed that those subjects who drank three or more cups of caffeinated coffee each day had a higher incidence of a particular type of glaucoma, exfoliation glaucoma, than those who were more moderate or didn’t drink coffee at all.

But... the effect was quite small, and critics have said the results didn’t reach statistical significance. In addition, you have to remember that “correlation does not equal causation” - so there’s no evidence that the coffee actually causes glaucoma, just that the two things could be linked.

So maybe you don’t have to put down your coffee cup just yet.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/05/caffeine_linked_to_glaucoma/

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