For years I’ve been seeing studies POP up telling us about one health risk or another associated with coffee intake and then a month or so later reports start popping up contradicting those health risk. It seems like certain factions of the scientific community want to find a reason for me to stop drinking (so much) coffee. Of course there also seems to be other factions that are hard at work trying to disprove the anti-coffe factions so I guess that evens things out. It does make me wonder about the community of scientific researchers at times, though.
What brings this up is that the anti-coffe faction seems to have found another health risk. If you are pregnant and you drink more than four cups of coffee a day you are more likely to have a still-born baby than non-coffee drinkers.
The researchers looked at 18,478 pregnant women booked in to give birth at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark between 1989 and 1996.
The team, led by Kirsten Wisborg of Aarhus University Hospital, found that pregnant women who drank four to seven cups a day had an 80% increased risk.
And those who consumed more than eight had a 300% higher risk, compared with women who did not have coffee during pregnancy.
Now, I’m not going to suggest that pregnant women ought to completely ignore this study and keep on drinking copious amounts of coffee. I think its very reasonable advice for pregnant women to moderate their coffee intake or even abstain from coffee all together. I’m just wanting to see how long it takes for this study’s results to be questioned by another study finding no similar results.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
