Drink coffee for your health!

A review of the literature seems to indicate that there is a positive benefit to a few cups of coffee a day - prevents type 2 diabetes, lowers body weight and waist circumference, and lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease!

Here is the paper (hurray for open access): 

How coffee affects metabolic syndrome and its componentsB. Baspinar,*a  G. Eskicib  and  A. O. Ozcelika

Food Funct., 2017,8, 2089-2101
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/FO/C7FO00388A

and a cool summary of the findings in this diagram

Time for summer drinks - gin and tonic!!

Here is an excellent explanation as to why gin + tonic does not taste like gin or tonic but something more subtle;
https://www.craftginclub.co.uk/ginnedmagazine/2016/5/31/why-gin-and-tonics-taste-amazing-according-to-science

In contrast, a rum and coke tastes like rum + coke.