Your Finnish is a bit off. It should be:

"Minä haluan toisen kupin kahvia."

Klingon is *not* a country, you f'n earth weasel!

Correction made -- that's what I get for using a new web translation page.

Intriguingly, that same site translates your phrase into: "Ego desirous secondly kupin coffee!"

I spent two weeks in eastern Finland last year, in the city of Joensuu. Some thought that I drank a lot of coffee. Makes me think...

It's the climate, and the grey skies. My mother, a Swede, drank it by the gallon. She was a spidery little woman; somehow, the cup would hold still even when her fingers would shake. Along about the eighth or ninth cup (for the day), she might say:

"Somehow, coffee doesn't taste as good as it used to ..."

You learn something new every day. In honor of the Finnish people's shared addiction, I have put an extra pot on this morning. =)

Does Finland have a Starbucks yet?

I hear there's also a direct correlation between coffee consumption and trips to the john. Er, if you'll excuse me...

Worse, note that the "Strawberries & Crème" has NO COFFEE, it has "Strawberries and milk blended with ice, topped with whipped cream."

Those men who drank 10 or more cups lowered their risk by 55 percent...

...And increased their risk of spontaneously drumming "Wipeout" on their dashboards 87 percent.

Dan, you're wrong. Thanks to me, the US has the highest rate. I'm the jackpot number that was never polled.

Creo que les puede interesar.
Saludos afectuosos.

Claude

Hmmm: correlation vs causality...

A deeper cause perhaps: Maybe orally(*) nevrotic people who deal with it by downing coffee more so than by downing calories(snacks, alcohol)..put less stress on their blood-sugar regulating system over time. Us orals eat a lot of carbo bombs impulsively while on empty stomachs, asking our pancreas and company to intercept a vertical takeoff in blood sugar.

(*) By orally, yeah I am thinking in pseudoFreudian terms. Those same tendancies could also appear as verbosity, chewing on stuff, typing lots and lots of email, elaborating boring inconsequential comments on blogs, addressed at people you don't know, oops sorry, my espresso machine is ready to go again, so I'll just hit "send" here, no wait! PS. coffee is supposed tobe good for your teeth too, had to throw that in. Oh, and PPPS, did they control whether/how much sugar these people were putting in their coffee?..

The data are correlational, and it's easy to imagine explanations in terms of something like lifestyle - for example, people who drink more coffee may have more income, more education, and more knowledge about nutrition. Especially with the quantities this report calls for - where I work, ten cups of coffee per workday would run about $2500 per year, and those are after-tax dollars.

Still, it may also be that coffee has this effect. The way to tell is to do some animal work - if you have an animal model of diabetes, randomly assign animals of that type to big doses of coffee or no coffee and check both groups for diabetes after some time. With the human correlational data, the animal experimental data, and a plausible biological mechanism, you could draw the cause-effect conclusion.

The diabetes link: perhaps when you drink coffee, you're not stuffing your fat face or pouring corn syrup down your neck (i.e. Coke/Pepsi)

just a comment on correlation and income levels. having lived in the Balkans and eastern Europe for several years, i can say that many people will sacrifice almost anything as long as they have bread and coffee. in the Balkans, Turkish coffee (do they get a better health pay-off because the bean is actually floating around in the cup?) is the drink of choice at any given time of the day, and even the poorest pensioner has her morning and afternoon coffee. i don't think income correlates for a large part of the coffee-drinking world.

It has quite a strong correlation at low income levels. In many coffee-producing countries coffee drinking is not that common. Coffee consumption in Peru, for example, is low (most goes for export). By comparison, in much more affluent Costa Rica, where I live, coffee consumption is huge. Ticos wouldn't know what to do without their morning cafecito. Pretty much everyone I know, for example, drinks at least three to four mugs (not cups) per day. In my office of thirteen people, the industrial size drip machine gets refilled twice per day. Weekends are a treat for me when I get through about three litres of gourmet coffee brewed in my stainless steel cafetière (the choice of connoisseurs.) Of course it helps that Costa Rica produces some of the finest quality beans on the planet and I can buy a 12oz bag of shade-grown SHB Arabica for four bucks.

When I first moved to Sweden, I got a wicked coffee buzz, making the rounds to visit my in-laws. Herregud! Vilket starkt kaffe!