7 Good Reasons To Drink Coffee
Do you have a caffeine-hater in your life? You know the type – they’re always telling you what’s bad for your health.
Here’s a list of some good reasons to drink coffee. Memorize this list – so the next time you encounter your favorite coffee-hater you can pull out one of these babies.
While you’re at it you can add the words “from a peer-reviewed scientific journal” — that’ll really get your pet coffee-hater frothing at the mouth.
- Cut the Pain
Two cups of coffee can cut post-workout muscle pain by up to 48%. From the Journal of Pain, March 2007 (link). - Increase your fiber intake
A cup of brewed coffee represents a contribution of up to 1.8 grams of fiber of the recommended intake of 20-38 grams. From the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (link). - Protection against cirrhosis of the liver
Of course you could just cut down on the alcohol intake. From the Archives of Internal Medicine (link). - Lowered risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Those who consumed 6 or more cups per day had a 22% lower risk of diabetes. From the Archives of Internal Medicine (link). - Lowered risk of Alzheimer’s disease
There is considerable evidence that caffeine may protect against Alzheimer’s disease. From the European Journal of Neurology (link). - Reduces suicide risk
10 year study of 86,000 female nurses show a reduced risk of suicide in the coffee drinkers. From the Archives of Internal Medicine (link). - Protection against Parkinson’s
People with Parkinson’s disease are less likely to be smokers and coffee drinkers than their healthy siblings. Just make sure you don’t get lung cancer on the way. From the Archives of Neurology (link).
Recent research has also shown that coffee may boost a woman’s sex drive.
The fact that it’s only been tested on rats somehow takes the shine off.
UPDATE: Yet another reason: Risk for developing gout (in men) decreases with increasing coffee consumption. This is a large study of over 50,000 men (link).
UPDATE: Coffee protects against eyelid spasm (can lead to blindness) – link.
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My alarm clock is a coffee maker, I think I’ll be ok
One to three cups of coffee a day may protect people from heart disease and strokes, according to new research.
of course moderation is the key to everything… because too much of anything is no longer a good thing,,,
I’ve always known that coffee couldn’t be all bad. We
southern folks graduate from the bottle to “milk coffee”
and then the real stuff around first grade. I plan on drinking my Maxwell House until the House runs dry!!!
Good stuff. Only the link to Protection against cirrhosis of the liver refers to dietary fiber.Could have been: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/166/11/1190
More coffee please…
Interesting content! This is something that tastes good and is not bad for you. I guess I have a healthy coffee habit.
Newly discovered- coffee consumption reduces cancer rates, too! Yipee!
Had no idea that coffee could reduce muscle pain. Good to know
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I need a cup of coffee daily. It makes me more alert. Have been drinking coffee since I was a kid.
I am a big time coffee drinker…..I LOVE IT!
Coffee helps me get through my day and much more.
For each of those “benefits” listed, there are many undesirable effects. And there are other foods that can produce those benefits much more effectively. Besides, they are all just correlations. Considering the percentage of our population that drinks coffee, you really think those disease statistics (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, cancer) are any better than they would be if no one drank coffee? The fact stands that caffeine is not an essential nutrient, it is a drug. And drugs should be used to treat a condition. People who are habitual coffee drinkers are drug addicts. Maybe in not an obscene albeit honest way as a heroin addict, but still an addict. People forget that like the tobacco lobby, pharmaceutical lobby, there is a coffee lobby. And they’re out to make sure that many people are hooked up as possible, of course, they don’t receive much attention, because EVERYONE is drinking it. The author of this article is probably a corporate shill. I’ll enjoy a coffee on occasion. But no thanks, I’m fine without coffee.
No corporate shills here, lol