Let me drink three cups a day, the rebellious daughter demands in Bach’s Coffee Cantata. People who drink three to four cups are more likely to see health benefits than problems, according to an umbrella review of 200 studies by a team at the University of Southampton. (Whether drinkers will “shrivel up like a piece of roast goat” without their fix, as Bach’s heroine warns, is not stated.) This is a rare piece of cheering research on consumption – for as the daughter also sings, coffee is lovelier than a thousand kisses; and all the more so as the temperature drops. Coffee drinkers everywhere will raise a cup to that.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2017 19:07 UTC