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.
I’d passed the place a dozen times or more without feeling called to step in, but my co-worker Lorna wanted to check it out. And God knows both of us could use a little Christ with our cappuccino.
The religious element at Rev Café isn’t exactly in-your-face. There aren’t any tracts or crosses that I could see in the clean and comfortable space, and I didn’t hear any Amy Grant or Sandi Patty over the sound system. But the friendly manager, Marlo, who was making drinks at that steamy espresso machine, was wearing a black T-shirt with a reference to Ezekiel 1:17 (When they went, they went in any of their four directions.) She told us that Rev Café is both the fund-raising business and the office for Lutheran Urban Mission Agency, which also operates a food pantry and utility assistance program out of the social ministry office at 715 Cesar Chavez Avenue.
“It’s an attractive place,” Lorna said as she sipped on a raspberry smoothie. I drank a single cappuccino. If I could have finished five more, I might have reduced my chances of premature death and brought me a lot closer to everlasting life in Heaven.
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There are several factors in life that are believed to be responsible for male infertility. This could be because of low sperm count, abnormal shaped sperm, or even the size of the sperm.
Lingerie is always the one gift that men tend to get wrong. Not because they have bad taste, or because they skimp on it but because they lack planning.
I'll swear on the Bible, the Rev's stuff is better than our office coffee, which I drink about six cups per day of anyway.
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