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Coffee has more natural antioxidant compounds in it, by weight, than any food except chocolate. Also, despite being one of the most heavily studied foods in all of history, no one's ever proven that it does anything bad. (The fact that people who drink more than 10 cups of coffee a day are more at risk for bladder and lung cancer is almost certainly attributable to the fact that most of those people smoke tobacco.)