The article
“Coffee gives Jolt to Life Span” was fabulously written by Nathan Seppa. The
article on ScienceNews.com discusses a study performed involving the health
benefits of drinking coffee regularly. This study was performed on a group of
over 400,000 men and women all of whom lack any prior medical issues. The
experiment lasted 27 years and at 13.5 years it was found that those who drank
who or more cups of coffee per day were 10-16% less likely to have died than non-drinkers.
However, one cup per day proved to be less beneficial. The study also found
that women who drank coffee reeked more benefits than men who drank the same
amount of coffee everyday. The daily coffee intake reduces one’s chance of
death due to heart disease, respiratory ailments, and diabetes. Differences
such as body weight, height, smoking status, consumption of alcohol, red/white
meat, vitamins, etc were all accounted for. It was also proven that caffeine
was not the factor in why coffee was so beneficial.
After being
told so many times that coffee is irreversibly bad for your health, it was
surprising to find out otherwise. Coffee has become a major part of everyday
life for the majority of Americans. It’s practically impossible to go more than
a block in New York City without seeing a Starbucks open for business. This
article will definitely make me rethink not having coffee in the morning.
This article
was very well written. Nathan Seppa did a great job using simple, yet elegant
language to describe this experiment. There were very few scientific words
used, but when there were he made sure to define them for the reader. I also
enjoyed the way he split up the paragraphs to make it easier to focus on what
was going on.
posted for M. Donovan
My classmate Meredith did a very good job of reviewing the article, “Coffee Gives Jolt to Life Span.” I think Meredith did a good job of explaining the experiment with specific data from the article. I also think she did a very good job choosing the article she reviewed because this was a very interesting and surprising article to read. She also did a good job of explaining the benefits of drinking coffee and the experiment results. I think Meredith could have improved her review by adding a little bit more of how the experiment was carried out. She also could have interpreted the results a little bit more. I think this review was very helpful and I never would have known that coffee really isn’t that bad for you, which goes against what most people believe.
ReplyDeleteMy classmate Meredith did a wonderful job of reviewing this article about how coffee is good for our health. I thought coffee would affect our life on making our like shorter or gain the possibilities of dying young. From this experiment I learned a lot of things that I didn’t know and I should know. I was surprised that coffee helps our health in balance. But also I didn’t know is that changing the amount of coffee might be better idea of drinking same amount of coffee every day.
ReplyDeleteI thought that M. Donovan did a very nice job in reviewing the article “Coffee gives Jolt to Life Span. She did an impressive job giving very specific information that was given in the article without overwhelming the reader with statistics. She also did a good job with giving credit to the author for doing such a good job in writing the article. Also, she told very well how surprising this study was for most people, with the common knowledge that coffee is bad for our health.
ReplyDeleteThe review could have possibly been made better by trying to critique the author of the article a little more. The reviewer also could have said what the results meant a little more, rather than mostly just telling the results.
I was very impressed by the notion that coffee might not actually be bad for people’s health, but might even be beneficial. I had always thought that coffee was bad for you, but this long-term study disproves that, and I find that very interesting.