Coffee - good or bad?

We all have our own answers to that question. Some answers are based on personal taste, while other people like or dislike coffee based on its physical/medical influence. (I personally do not like the taste and will drink a soda if I need caffeine.) As finals draw nearer, many students are getting more and more tired, and often rely on extensive amounts of coffee to help them stay awake, either in class or at night in order to study. In the past, tests have been inconclusive as to whether extensive coffee use is harmful to your health. A recent study says that multiple cups of coffee are not as harmful with respect to causing heart disease.

From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12477926/wid/11915773:
"Go ahead and have that second cup of coffee — or third, or fourth. A study published Monday shows heavy, long-term coffee drinking does not raise the risk of heart disease for most people.

The study, which followed 128,000 men and women for as long as 20 years, showed that drinking filtered coffee — not espresso or French-style brews — did not raise the risk of heart disease.

...The researchers found more than half the women and 30 percent of men who drank six or more cups of coffee a day were also more likely to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and use aspirin, and were less likely to drink tea, exercise or take vitamin supplements.

But once these factors were accounted for, there was no difference in heart attack risks between the very light and heavy coffee drinkers...."

Check this article out for yourself-I found it quite interesting.