Vindicated!

I've been a multiple-cups-a-day coffee drinker for years. Maybe even decades. Now comes word about the benefit of such an addiction:

Coffee not only helps clear the mind and perk up the energy, it also provides more healthful antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet, according to a study released Sunday.

Antioxidants, which are thought to help battle cancer and provide other health benefits, are abundant in fruits and vegetables.Vinson's team concluded that the average adult consumes 1,299 milligrams of antioxidants daily from coffee. The closest competitor was tea at 294 milligrams.

When I ponder the idea that has been touted by some about the effects of so-called "free radicals" in diabetics and their development of serious complications, I smile to learn that my habit (and I mean that in the best sense of the word, as if referring to the hardest of hard-core narcotics junkies!) has a potentially beneficial effect!

Wait 'til my wife finds out...