Coffee is a nutritional dynamo that gets a bad rep because it keeps us up at night. Truth is, drinking coffee in moderation (and not before bed time) can bless you with many superb health benefits. Here’s just a few…
There’s something in coffee that we don’t know about that helps protect us against Alzheimer’s disease
Tampa, FL – A yet unidentified component of coffee interacts with the beverage’s caffeine, which could be a surprising reason why daily coffee intake protects against Alzheimer’s disease. A new Alzheimer’s mouse study by researchers at the University of South Florida found that this interaction boosts blood levels of a critical growth factor that seems to fight off the Alzheimer’s disease process.
The findings appear in the early online version of an article to be published June 28 in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Coffee may reduce the risk of endometrial cancer according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health
Coffee may help women lower their risk of endometrial cancer (cancer of the lining of the uterus) according to new research. Women in a large cohort study who drank more than 4 cups of coffee a day had a 25% lower risk of endometrial cancer.
The women were enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), in which more than 67,000 participants aged 34 to 59 answered questionnaires about diet, smoking, and health. Over a follow-up of 26 years, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found 672 cases of endometrial cancer in the NHS. They found that women who drank 4 cups of coffee or more every day had a 25% lower risk of developing endometrial cancer compared to those who drank less than 1 cup of coffee a day.
SOURCE: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/study-finds-coffee-may-lower-risk-of-endometrial-cancer
Coffee drinkers are less likely to take their own lives
Chalk up yet another health benefit to coffee: A new study indicates that drinking two to four cups a day may lower suicide risk — by half!
Yes, it seems amazing, but Harvard School of Public Health researchers found that people who drank two to three cups of caffeinated coffee daily had a 45 percent lower chance of taking their own life, while those who drank more than four cups of coffee daily had a 53 percent lower risk when compared to those who drank less than one cup.SOURCE: http://blog.aarp.org/2013/08/09/2-cups-of-coffee-daily-may-cut-suicide-risk/
Drinking coffee could mean you’re less likely to get Parkinson’s disease
On the same day actor Michael J. Fox officially announced the launch of a foundation for Parkinson’s disease research that bears his name, a new study was released showing that men who don’t drink coffee are two to three times as likely to get the disease as are men who do drink coffee.
And the more caffeine from coffee the men in the study consumed, the lower their incidence of Parkinson’s disease. For example, men who don’t drink coffee at all were five times as likely to get the disease as were those who drink seven cups, or 28 oz., or more each day.
SOURCE: http://www.webmd.com/parkinsons-disease/news/20000523/caffeine-protect-against-parkinsons-disease
For those with a less than perfect diet, coffee is probably the healthiest thing they consume besides water.