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The abstract says that the majority of the benefits of coffee probably comes from phenolic phytochemicals. This implies you can receive all of the same health benefits like lower risks type 2 diabetes by eating other vegetables.

Is the western diet really so weak that coffee is a major source of our vegetable intake?

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If people generally liked to eat vegetables, it would not need so much propaganda.

I think the evidence that vegetables are all that healthy is not that great and the statistical effects are not large.

Phytochemicals may be hormetic stressors, or they may just be stressors most bodies can deal with, but do not actually benefit from. Antioxidants in particular seem to not live up to expectations.

You do not find phenolic compounds in every vegetable.

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