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subjects in two meta-studies: 78,977 women from the Nurses' Health Study and 41,202 men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. It concluded that subjects who drank three or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day were at significantly higher risk of developing glaucoma than abstainers. But another study, from the National
Institutes of Health, concluded that coffee drinkers were at lower risk of death from all major causes of mortality, including heart disease, respiratory disease and diabetes. The study, which followed 400,000 subjects between the ages of 50 and 71 over a 14-year span, showed a 15 percent lower risk of death for men and 10 percent lower for women who drank between two and six cups a day. However, the study's conductors
UGANDA PRESIDENT HITS COFFEE CHEATS Calls for their arrest to shore up quality The president of
Uganda has called for the arrest of coffee farmers and processors who try to pass off coffee that has not been properly dried or otherwise violates quality standards. President Yoweri Museveni, who was
visiting Sheema district for International Cooperative Day in late September, responded to complaints by local farmers that some of their peers were putting coffee into the supply chain before it was properly dried, in some cases drying it on bare ground. "Farmers in such an act, including those drying coffee on bare ground or on soil, should be arrested,
say they can't reach any conclusions about why coffee correlates with longer life, saying more research into specific compounds in coffee is needed.
Museveni said, according to allAfrica. com. He directed his trade minister to look into the matter. Uganda produced 3.2 million bags of
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coffee last year, the second largest total for Africa, behind Ethiopia.
BRIEFS Sugar Foods, maker of Blue Diamond, Sweet'N Low and other food brands, has promoted 25-year company veteran Jim Walsh to chief operating officer.
Reunion Island has announced that Adam Pesce, the company's director of coffee development, has been elected to the board of directors of the charitable group Grounds for Health.
Silver Cup Coffee, and Brian Jurus, founder and owner of Urban City Coffee Roasting Co., have merged their respective companies into a single company in Lynwood, Wash.
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