What Are the Health Benefits of Coffee?
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All of us like a good cup of coffee and most of us have some idea that coffee is good for our health. Here, are more than a dozen health benefits of coffee, backed by scientific evidence.
Protection against Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Dementia
Researchers have found that starting at just one cup of coffee a day your daily Java reduces the risk of Parkinson’s disease. A cup a day reduces your risk by 15% and by the time you reach 5 cups a day that risk reduction goes to 32%. When researchers took smoking, drinking alcohol and other factors into consideration the risk reduction for Parkinson’s was a much as 60%.
Not only does coffee make you more alert as you drink it, coffee helps prevent memory loss over the long term. It does this by its protective effect against Alzheimer’s. The risk of getting this disease can be cut by two thirds if you drink three to five cups a day starting in midlife.
Cancer Risk Reduced by Coffee Consumption
We have written previously about coffee reducing your risk of colon cancer. Currently available evidence is that your risk goes down by a fourth with four to six cups a day and down by 15% with one to four cups a day.
The risk of women getting endometrial cancer goes down by 20% with a cup a day and by about 7% more with each additional cup.
Live cancer risk is reduced by almost half with 2 cups of coffee a day and your risk of brain tumor goes down by 40% with five or more cups a day.
Living Longer
More than a year ago we wrote about a longer life with coffee. The evidence shows that the sum total of health benefits of coffee reduce your risk of dying (compared to non-coffee drinkers) by as much as 15% with 5 cups a day and by 6% with a cup a day. None of us live forever but reducing your risk of dying in the next 5 or 10 years is a good thing.
5. Researchers have found that starting at
just one cup of coffee a day your daily
Java reduces the risk of Parkinson’s
disease.
6. A cup a day reduces your risk by 15%
and by the time you reach 5 cups a day
that risk reduction goes to 32%.
7. When researchers took smoking,
drinking alcohol and other factors into
consideration the risk reduction for
Parkinson’s was a much as 60%.
8. Not only does coffee make you more
alert as you drink it, coffee helps
prevent memory loss over the long
term.
9. . It does this by its protective effect
against Alzheimer’s. The risk of getting
this disease can be cut by two thirds if
you drink three to five cups a day
starting in midlife.
11. We have written previously about
coffee reducing your risk of colon
cancer. Currently available evidence is
that your risk goes down by a fourth
with four to six cups a day and down by
15% with one to four cups a day.
12. The risk of women getting endometrial
cancer goes down by 20% with a cup a
day and by about 7% more with each
additional cup.
13. Live cancer risk is reduced by almost
half with 2 cups of coffee a day and
your risk of brain tumor goes down by
40% with five or more cups a day.
15. More than a year ago we wrote about a
longer life with coffee
16. The evidence shows that the sum total
of health benefits of coffee reduce your
risk of dying (compared to non-coffee
drinkers) by as much as 15% with 5
cups a day and by 6% with a cup a day.
17. None of us live forever but reducing
your risk of dying in the next 5 or 10
years is a good thing.
19. There is good evidence that athletic
performance is helped by drinking
coffee beforehand.
20. Via a series of chemical regulatory
pathways in the human body the
caffeine in coffee affects the regulation
of glycogen, sugars and lipid
metabolism and stimulates the release
of adrenaline.
21. Coffee can be effective to enhance
performance when ingested as close
as fifteen minutes before exercise or
competition although an hour before is
ideal to insure complete absorption and
initiation of the regulatory pathways the
help coffee enhance athletic
performance.
22. Coffee is effective in enhancing athletic
performance in moderate amounts,
three to six milligrams per kilogram of
body weight and larger amounts do not
appear to help.
23. An eight ounce cup of brewed coffee
contains from 100 to 200 milligrams of
caffeine.
25. Since three milligrams per kilogram
times seventy kilograms comes to just
over 210 milligrams it turns out that one
stiff cup of coffee taken within an hour
of performance will likely enhance
athletic performance.
26. Two cups may be better but three will
be a waste of time.
28. Type II diabetes is a major health issue
for more than 20 million Americans. But
if you drink coffee regularly you can
reduce your risk of getting diabetes.
29. The best results are from 4-6 cups a
day when cuts your risk by more than
half.
