coffee as health food

Coffee As Health Food

Your daily cappuccino may seem like a guity pleasure. But guess what? This guilty pleasure may actually help you live longer. That is right: Coffee, apparently, is a health food. It seems like everything that's addictive--and pleasurable--is bad. Smoking: bad. Drinking: Bad, if you overdo it. Coffee? Good? What gives? Well, previous studies have produced decidedly mixed results about coffee. Some found that java seemed to make people more likely to drop dead from a heart attack, get diabetes or be stricken by cancer. Others found the opposite -- coffee drinkers seemed to live longer. After accounting for smoking, diet and other factors that might confuse the analysis --the largest such study to date--found that those who drank more coffee were less likely to die than those who didn't regularly drink java, according to a report in the June 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Coffee seemed to have no impact on cancer one way or the other. But it did have a big effect on heart disease -- the leading killer for both men and women. Two or three cups a day cut the chances of dying from heart disease by 25 percent. Four or five cups a day cut it by 34 percent. And it didn't matter whether the coffee was caffeinated or de-caf, indicating there's something else about coffee that's doing the trick. Previous research indicates there are substances in coffee that lower inflammation and make blood vessels work better. The study didn't differentiate filtered or unfiltered brews.

Actually I am a person who like to drink coffee because it can make me feel fresh after I have drink coffee. Before that, I heard other saying that drink too much coffee is not good for health but I did not care about it. Because drinking coffee daily already become one part of my life. Luckily that time I did not stop from drinking coffee because now I know that actually drinking coffee can help me live longer. For more information about coffee as health food, please refer to:
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