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Kathianne
08-01-2016, 04:04 AM
I bolded the date, I know the year. Still worth sharing!

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/07/drinking-coffee-may-reduce-risk-of-suicide-by-50/ (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/07/drinking-coffee-may-reduce-risk-of-suicide-by-50/)




Coffee drinking tied to lower risk of suicide July 24, 2013 | Editor's PickPopular



By Marge Dwyer, Harvard School of Public Health Communications



Researchers link caffeine’s impact on brain chemicals as playing key role

Drinking several cups of coffee daily appears to reduce the risk of suicide in men and women by about 50 percent, according to a new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/) (HSPH). The study (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/15622975.2013.795243) was published online July 2 in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry (http://informahealthcare.com/wbp).

“Unlike previous investigations, we were able to assess association of consumption of caffeinated and non-caffeinated beverages, and we identify caffeine as the most likely candidate of any putative protective effect of coffee,” said lead researcher Michel Lucas (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/michel-lucas/), research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH.
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