Are You An Avid Coffee Drinker? Read These SURPRISING Facts About This Caffeine-Laced Drink

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You’ve been trying to improve your health, and that means you have been eating better, drinking less, getting more exercise, and even cutting back on the amount of coffee you are consuming. Wait a moment though… is coffee really bad for you? Or is coffee healthy?

 The research is in, and it turns out - coffee is good for your healthy lifestyle, after all.



Studies Show Coffee is Not a Danger to Health

 A Harvard study conducted on 130,000 study volunteers looked at the effect of coffee on health. Researchers could not find any relationship between coffee consumption and increased risk of death from any cause (including cancer or cardiovascular disease). The evidence from this study suggests that drinking coffee, even as much as six cups per day, does not pose any serious threats to the health of the general population.

 The Health Benefits of Coffee

 Coffee even offers specific health benefits. According to the Mayoclinic.com, studies have shown that coffee may improve cognitive function, reduce the risk of depression, and protect against type 2 diabetes, and liver disease.

 Can coffee protect the brain? Multiple studies have linked caffeine intake with reduced risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, and coffee has also been suggested to protect against Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

 One chemical found in coffee, chlorogenic acid (CGA), may even help prevent some of the effects of obesity. Researchers found that CGA significantly reduced insulin resistance and fat accumulation in the liver, and was effective in preventing weight gain. CGA is a powerful antioxidant that is also found in fruits and vegetables like blueberries, tomatoes, and apples.

 If you spend too much time in the sun, you may want to make sure you are drinking plenty of coffee. A recent study published in the JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, suggests that coffee may have a protective effect against non-melanoma skin cancers. People who consumed four cups a day or more had a 20% lower risk of malignant melanoma.


Is Bulletproof Coffee Better For You?

 Bulletproof coffee is a new trend that you may have heard of, or even tried. Bulletproof coffee adds grassfed butter and medium chain triglyceride (MCT) oil to coffee, which is then blended and drank as a breakfast replacement. The founder of Bulletproof coffee claim it can help with weight loss and increase your energy. Opponents claim that it can actually raise cholesterol levels and can decrease your overall nutrition by replacing a healthy breakfast. Is Bulletproof coffee healthy or unhealthy?

 Bottom line: there have been no scientific studies done yet that show that Bulletproof coffee is good or bad for your health.

 Can You Make Your Coffee Even Healthier?

 So how should you prepare your coffee for maximum health benefits? First, ditch the creamers. Coffee creamers can include horrendously unhealthy ingredients like sugar, partially hydrogenated oils, corn syrup, artificial flavors, and preservatives.

 Drink your coffee without added sugars, dairy, creamers, or flavors to get the most health benefits from it. That’s right - black coffee is the healthiest coffee. If you need to add something to make the flavor of black coffee more palatable, try adding a bit of raw cacao powder or cinnamon powder in with your grinds before brewing.

 Since the beneficial antioxidant compounds in coffee beans can deteriorate as the beans are roasted darker, choose light roasted (blonde) beans for maximum benefits, and be sure to store whole beans in an airtight container. Grind right before use.

 Brew your coffee through a filter. Coffee contains a substance that can stimulate LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels. This substance, cafestol, is left behind when you brew using paper filters.


Is Coffee Healthy For Everyone?

 For years, pregnant women have been advised to avoid coffee and caffeine, at risk of miscarriage. Caffeine reaches the fetus through the placenta, and the evidence is that a fetus is very sensitive to caffeine. The all-out ban on coffee has been lifted, however, and most doctors will recommend that pregnant women reduce coffee consumption to a low level, such as one cup per day.

 People with hypertension (high blood pressure) may want to consider a low level of coffee consumption, if any at all. Caffeine can raise blood pressure levels, so those who are having a hard time controlling their hypertension may be better off skipping a cup o’ joe.

 If you get the shakes, feel stressed or agitated, have problems sleeping, or believe that your coffee drinking is becoming an addiction, then you are drinking too much.

 For the rest of us, up to six (eight-ounce) cups of coffee a day showed no negative effects to researchers. Go ahead and refill your cup, it turns out coffee actually is healthy!
Source: Fitness Republic

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