Caffeine Messes With Your Hormones Differently Depending On Your
Race  New research has found that young women who drink
caffeinated beverages on the daily experience changes in hormone
levels. How much will your Starbucks and Diet Coke addictions
affect your chemical ladyhood? Like being arrested in Arizona,
the way caffeine treats your lady hormones depends on your race.
Researchers examined 250 young, female test subjects who drank
about a cup of coffee per day and found that drinking caffeine
caused subjects' estrogen levels to fluctuate. On a small scale,
this isn't necessarily good or bad, but on a large scale— say,
if you're one of those people who polishes off an entire pot of
eyebrow-singeing coffee before 10 am every day— they're not sure
yet.  Most curiously, the study, published in The American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found differences between the way
that women's bodies react to coffee based on a woman's race.
White women who drank a cup per day had slightly less estrogen
than non-drinker