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Coffee drinking protects against an eyelid spasm

People who drink coffee are less likely to develop an involuntary eye spasm called primary late onset blepharospasm, which makes them blink uncontrollably and can leave them effectively "blind," according to a study published online ahead of print in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

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