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Jan092012
Live Healthy - Is Coffee a Health Superfood?
Top Health Benefits of Coffee
From Mark Stibich, Ph.D., former About.com Guide
Coffee – An Overlooked Health and Anti Aging Food
In the past, coffee (like wine) has been overlooked as a healthy food. There has always been some level of suspicion around coffee and its long-term impact on health. For some reason, coffee has this association of being unhealthy. Well, (thank goodness) it looks like that link between coffee and unhealthiness is wrong. In fact, there is a good bit of evidence that coffee is good for you and it may even be good for you. This is important, considering more than half of the people in the U.S. drink coffee every day.Why Coffee Is A Superfood?
It looks like coffee has two main ways of improving the health of your body: antioxidants and caffeine. Both these substances have health and anti aging benefits. Antioxidants, for example, help your body repair damage to cells caused by free radicals (which are produced as a byproduct of cells just doing their daily thing). Caffeine has been shown to help improve a range of symptoms and may even be important in fighting of Parkinson’s Disease and other age-related brain problems. Coffee is loaded with both antioxidants and caffeine, and each has different potential benefits for improving health and reducing the risk of chronic illnesses.Health Benefits of Coffee
I scoured the internet to find reliable sources of the health benefits of coffee. Type "coffee" into pubmed (the database of medical research) and your get almost 7,000 results back. Below are some of the major findings about health, life expectancy and coffee.- Heart Disease (up to 25% reduction in mortality risk (for women))
- Diabetes (up to 60% reduced risk)
- Dementia (up to 65% reduced risk)
- Colon Cancer (up to 25% reduced risk)
- Cirrhosis (up to 80% reduced risk)
- Gallstones (almost 50% reduced risk)
- Parkinson’s Disease (up to 80% reduced risk – probably because of caffeine)
- Headache Relief (because of the caffeine)
- Asthma Relief (caffeine again)
- Cavity Protection (because of anti-bacterial and anti-adhesive properties of compounds within coffee)
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Sources:
Vanderbilt University's Institute for Coffee Studies.
Does Coffee Consumption Reduce the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Individuals With Impaired Glucose? Besa Smith, MPH, Deborah L. Wingard, PHD, Tyler C. Smith, MS, Donna Kritz-Silverstein, PHD and Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD. Diabetes Care 29:2395-2390, 2006.
Coffee Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An 11-Year Prospective Study of 28 812 Postmenopausal Women. Mark A. Pereira, PhD; Emily D. Parker, MPH; Aaron R. Folsom, MD. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1311-1316.
Coffee Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes. A Systematic Revie. Rob M. van Dam, PhD; Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD JAMA. 2005;294:97-104.
Kivipelto, M. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, January 2009; vol 16: pp 85-91.
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Reader Comments (3)
Yes,intake of coffee is really very beneficial for health.Several health benefits of caffeine are there.So you have done an excellent job here by introducing us the several health benefits of coffee here.
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Hi,
Hot tea dirinking was emphasized as esophageal carcinoma risk factor formerly by Farhad Islami et al. (Tea drinking habits and oesophageal cancer in a high risk area in northern Iran: population based case-control study – BMJ 2009; 338 doi: 10.1136/bmj.b929)
Hot coffee drinking may have similar risks and it can lead to gastroesophageal reflux disease also.
However, in pregnants, two cups of coffee per day or less is recommended as limit consumption.
Drinking of coffee can also lead to blood pressure-raising and more than eight cups daily may aggravate cardiac arrhythmias.
Coffee drinking may also increase the risk of osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
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