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New research suggests that the brewing method and the sex of the drinker may be important to coffee’s link with raised cholesterol.Widest gender difference seen for espresso; narrowest for plunger (cafetière) coffee.The sex of the drinker, as well as the brewing method, may be key to coffee’s link with raised cholesterol, a known risk factor for heart disease, suggests research published on May 10, 2022, in the open access journal Open Heart.Drinking espresso was associated with the widest gender difference in cholesterol…

Researchers have taken advantage of a rare opportunity to study identical (aka monozygotic) twins who were separated early in life, before being raised in different countries by different families – and there are some surprising results to report.  Whereas IQ has been shown to be up to 80 percent heritable – with twins usually scoring roughly the same on cognitive tests – in this case there was a substantial 16-point difference between the siblings.There were, of course, lots of similarities between the pair, but the…