I was just hav­ing my first cup of cof­fee in the morn­ing, when an arti­cle on sprudge.com popped up in my feed read­er. As an asth­mat­ic and cof­fee enthu­si­ast it nat­u­ral­ly caught my attention.

It reports about a study by med­ical pro­fes­sion­als from Korea’s Hal­lym Uni­ver­si­ty, Hanyang Uni­ver­si­ty, and Kang­dong Sacred Heart Hos­pi­tal, with research find­ing that mod­er­ate cof­fee con­sump­tion can low­er the fre­quen­cy of symp­toms asso­ci­at­ed with asthma.

As might be expect­ed from this quote, the effects of cof­fee would not be use­ful in treat­ing an asth­ma attack— cof­fee is more pre­ven­ta­tive than treat­ment. But in addi­tion, «caf­feine has sev­er­al ther­a­peu­tic effects that also reduces res­pi­ra­to­ry mus­cle fatigue». So all in all, good news, don’t you think?