Coffee Revisited: Is Java Healthy?
You may recall a few weeks ago I wrote a post about how coffee has become more and more accepted as a healthy choice when it comes to beverages. First, it’s chock full of antioxidants, and it’s now been linked to lower risk of stroke, liver cancer, and Parkinson’s disease. Further, athletic performance appears to be boosted by coffee consumption, which I’ve noted myself when exercising after having a good cup of coffee.
Scientists are now discovering that Java previously got a bad rap because people participating in studies on coffee were also typically smokers. This understanding has lead to more serious studies on how coffee alone affects the body, which has hundreds, if not thousands, of bioactive ingredients.
I can say that everything that I’ve read recently even has lead me to start drinking more coffee, and has lead my wife to say “I told you so” a lot more often. That’s okay, because as long as she gets her first cup of coffee into her in the morning, she says it in the sweetest way possible.
To read more about coffee’s emerging benefits, read Boston.com’s “Good to the last drop” from May 11, 2009.
How much coffee do you drink?
- 2-3 cups a day (63%, 5 Votes)
- about a cup a day (25%, 2 Votes)
- 0 cups a day (13%, 1 Votes)
- 4+ cups a day! (-1%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 8
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