Yes I did Nancy and thank you for it. I am indeed a fighter, and the fight goes on! All personal emails and statements of encouragement mean a lot to me.
At least ice cream must give a calcium boost. This is what I tell myself.... You feel about ice cream the way I feel about biscuits (cookies). Sit me down to watch a film and I'll finish the entire packet, especially if they are lemon cream puffs which my family members bring when they visit from London. My folks are coming in October, so I can stock up. Yippee!
I shall stick to my decaff lattes, health benefits or nay. Simple pleasures of life are not to be forsaken. They sweeten the day.
Kathryn-
I think the article is only saying that Americans get more of their antioxidants from coffee than from any other source because they drink so much of it. Not that there aren't better sources. At least, that's my understanding. Your sources may be better than coffee.
-Nancy
Well, Loopy, a while ago I read about the "ice cream diet" in prevention magazine. At that point I had already been eating copious amounts of ice cream for many years without any weight gain. It just seemed to explain what I was experiencing, although the diet did not recommend my copious amounts.
AARP magazine (my DH is old enough to get it!) has a short article this month called "Slender Forever" which states that people who drank 3-4 servings of low-fat dairy a day lost an average of 9 lbs. more over a 24-wk. period than did a group whose intake was low. It says that calcium interferes with the action of a hormone that causes fat to be stored. The study recommends about 4 glasses of skim milk a day to get the effects (apparently Health Choice ice cream also does the trick according to my own personal study }( )