TITLE

Is your coffee habit grounds for health concerns?

AUTHOR(S)

Berkowitz, Kathy Feld

PUB. DATE

February 1994

SOURCE

Environmental Nutrition;Feb1994, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p1

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Examines the role of caffeine in causing cancer, heart disease, miscarriages and birth defects. Link between heavy coffee intake and high cholesterol and symptoms of heart disease; Nonassociation of coffee drinking and risk of bladder cancer; Caffeine intake not a risk factor for decreased fertility or birth defects.

ACCESSION #

9406101369

 

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