Secrets Revealed: Coffee is ok!
News-flash: The consensus of health experts is that moderate coffee consumption is entirely ok!
I drink a lot of coffee and I always run into people who try to convince me there is something wrong with it. It turns out that health experts have been studying coffee and research shows most of the scary health warnings are myths. In fact, on the balance, coffee appears to have health benefits. The health benefits appear to include:
- Coffee may reduce risk as Parkinson’s disease by as much as one half.
- Coffee may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, depression and suicide.
- Coffee may reduce gallstones, kidney stones.
- Heavy coffee consumers had a lower risk of type 2 diabetes than light coffee consumers.
Are there negatives? Sure. There is evidence coffee can elevate blood pressure and prevent you from sleeping. But preventing sleep is a feature, not a bug, right?
I’ll keep right on drinking my cup-pa’ morning Joe!
Hat tip Medical News Today.
Yay!
I actually drink decaf, mostly because of bad PMS I’ve had in the past. But it didn’t help to decrease my PMS, I just got in the habit of avoiding caffeine. But I still like my coffee. But I like it sweet with cream and sugar.
Cynthia Blue (4 comments.) - June 7th, 2007 at 8:24 pmI drink coffee every day but it’s so bad for my heart. I have tachycardia due to my anxiety and coffee makes my heart beat increase a lot…but I love coffee.
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