NIH News
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jan2012/nichd-26.htm

Asian women who consumed an average of 200 milligrams or more of caffeine a day — the equivalent of roughly two cups of coffee — had elevated estrogen levels when compared to women who consumed less, according to a study of reproductive age women by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.

However, white women who consumed 200 milligrams or more of caffeine a day had slightly lower estrogen levels than women who consumed less. Black women who consumed 200 milligrams or more of caffeine a day were found to have elevated estrogen levels, but this result was not statistically significant.

Findings differed slightly when the source of caffeine was considered singly. Consuming 200 milligrams or more of caffeine from coffee mirrored the findings for overall caffeine consumption, with Asians having elevated estrogen levels, whites having lower estrogen levels, and the results for blacks not statistically significant. However, consumption of more than one cup each day of caffeinated soda or green tea was associated with a higher estrogen level in Asians, whites, and blacks.

Gotta control those variables in the study!

I don't drink tea of coffee - but I get all my caffeine from chocolate .

Life without coffee?  Doesn't bear thinking about.     And as for decaffeinated, that's a work of the Devil!

Quote from: justmeinoz on January 29, 2012, 06:20:32 AM
Life without coffee?  Doesn't bear thinking about.     And as for decaffeinated, that's a work of the Devil!

a girl after my own heart 

Best moment in the film Hot Fuzz: when Sergeant Angel mishears the word decapitated as decaffeinated .

Quote from: justmeinoz on January 29, 2012, 06:20:32 AM
Life without coffee?  Doesn't bear thinking about.     And as for decaffeinated, that's a work of the Devil!

QFT

I take Premarin along with coffee all day.

When I used to work in restaurants (always morning shift) I would give decaf to customers who got rude or abusive. I don't feel bad about it.

Quote from: Felix on February 01, 2012, 05:09:18 PM
When I used to work in restaurants (always morning shift) I would give decaf to customers who got rude or abusive. I don't feel bad about it.

If you've seen the movie Waiting, that doesn't seem bad at all.

A scientific weapon to back up my claims to my wife that my coffee-drinking is doing me good! lol