Posted on 05/10/2017 3:22:09 PM PDT by NYer
For years doctors have looked askance at us coffee drinkers, warning us about the dangers caffeine poses to our hearts, brains, and bowels. They implored us to quit coffee entirely or at least keep it to one cup a day. But did we listen? No. And what do we have to show for it?
Really, really good health.
Listen up, coffee drinkers. This is the day of our vindication. It turns out we were right all along — we actually would die without our coffee.
Research the world over is confirming that drinking coffee keeps you alive … but it doesn’t work if you drink it in moderation. In fact, Harvard researchers found that low consumption of coffee is linked to deaths from heart-related illnesses. To get the health benefits of coffee, you have to drink it like you mean it.
Drinking three to five cups of coffee per day gives you a longer life, making you 15 percent less likely to die early, lowering your risk of dying from a heart attack or a stroke by 21 percent and slashing your risk for type 2 diabetes by 12 percent.
Three cups of Italian-style espresso per day cuts the risk of prostate cancer in half. And a study in the British Medical Journal found that coffee helps prevent clogging of the arteries.
When it comes to your brain, coffee does more than just help you feel alert. It has neuroprotective properties, and drinking it regularly can reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s — but to get the full 20 percent reduction, you have drink at least 3 cups per day.
Drinking two to three cups of coffee per day is particularly beneficial for us women, as it cuts our risk of depression by 15 percent. It also lowers our risk of endometrial cancer by 22 percent.
But coffee’s benefits are not merely protective and preventative. A 2012 German study found that drinking coffee three times per day helped patients recover from bowel surgery faster. And the next time someone warns you that coffee will stain your teeth, don’t believe it. Brazilian scientists have found that coffee breaks down the bacteria that causes plaque, and can prevent or slow down tooth decay.
And for you moms out there, a study in my kitchen this morning found that two cups of coffee in rapid succession improved my happiness level by 100 percent. Pint-sized researchers confirmed that coffee “makes you so much more smiley, Mommy.”
So pull out the biggest mug you have and drink up, because coffee is almost certainly the only reason you’re still alive. Cheers!
I drink my coffee in large cups that in a pinch have served as soup bowls.
I do three of those during the day, and then switch to a small cup in the evening to avoid a suggestion being gauche.
I am a dark roast kind of guy.
I’m gonna live forevah! Forevah! (until of course I don’t)
And of course everyone has a few of those big honkin' coffee mugs in their cupboard. Unless you are drinking out of one of the old style "Ozzie and Harriet" cups, most likely you're getting 12 ounces per play.
When I had a brass shop for a few years I would keep a pot on and easily did 4 or 5 a day until the migraines I had always had became more frequent and more severe. I read something that said that coffee could possibly cause that so I abjured the drink for a couple of years and voila! no more migraines. While on the highway a few years later and not able to stop for some shuteye I got a cup of coffee to keep me going and it woke me right up and did not result in a headache. Well, I drink 3-6 a day now and do get mild headaches that seem to be the same pattern as the migraines were but they are not so often and not terrible. I find out that migraines tend to ameliorate as you get older in some people.
I haven’t seen an 8 oz cup of coffee in years. Most now are 12, 16, or 20 oz in the convenience stores and the diners. When I make it now at home I make it one cup at a time and it is only about 3 oz but there is as much coffee in that 3 oz of water as in maybe a half a pot at the Waffle House.
Probably not.
Other people?
There is a possibility.
Don't come between me and my coffee.
The bass player in my old band was a coffee nut! Gigs in Cleveland were from 8pm until 2am. He drink a cup before he went home! Then get up and deliver mail the next morning! Postman!
Sounds interesting.
Probably 5 or 6 cups a day.
I'm 73 5'4" 120 lbs, 65/110 and feel very lucky at this point. No meds!!
Still drink whole milk....usually with cereal or graham crackers. Eggs every day, salad every day and lotsa protein....I mix it up...seafood, chicken, beef, pork.
No chips or soda.
Headline follows from what is a tautology for us mortals: Without X, we would die.
Coffee is healthy. What you buy as a coffee is just sugar and processed fat.
I like my coffee so strong it would grow hair on your chest.
There’s a reason the two are so good together :-)
I would expect that from a exnavy person.
At least 4 10oz. Mugs/day or I will probably die, haha.
“You actually would die without your coffee, research says”
Dear Researcher:
There are pretty good odds that you’re gonna die whether you drink coffee or not.
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