Coffee: The Blood of Christ

By CHARLES FERRUZZA

When it comes coffee, you never know what to believe. Over the years I’ve read differing medical reports that insist coffee causes cancer, coffee cures cancer, coffee is a great hair tonic, coffee causes hair to fall out and – don’t ask me where exactly I read these — coffee either exacerbates impotence or causes erections that last for days.

This week, USA Today led off a health news story with this sentence: “Drinking up to six cups of coffee a day may lower the overall odds of dying prematurely, mainly because it cuts the risk of dying from heart disease.”

Six cups seems a little excessive. But in the event I do kick the bucket prematurely, I probably should be drinking my morning coffee at Rev Café & Gallery (2010 Main Street). A friend had told me that it was a Christian coffee shop.