Coffee's cost: Is there a price to pay for drinking coffee?

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  Humanity drinks about 2 billion cups of coffee every day.

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  The good news for those who contribute to that figure

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  is that regularly consuming moderate amounts

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  does not appear to be harmful.

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  There may even be health benefits.

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  Experiments conducted in vitro and in animals

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  have long shown that some components of coffee,

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  including caphistol, carbiol,

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  caffeine, and chlorogenic acids,

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  can reduce inflammation

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  as well as cell damage

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  caused by a chemical process known as oxidation.

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  When a team led by Marziyeh Moenfad

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  of the University of Porto looked more closely,

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