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!
Me too. 3 in the morning and 1 after dinner. And if I’m somewhere where it’s available during the day I’ll drink it then.
I was raised on coffee and my mom and dad always always had a pot on. All day all night.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/05/coffee-tied-to-lower-prostate-cancer-risk/
Alternatively, I would literally kill for coffee. Self defense.
Mhy wife and I are eightyish. We have been knocking off a twelve cup pot everyday for as long as I can remember. Sometimes the pot is gone by midafternoon and we have to hit the Keurig machine.
I once worried about our addiction. Good to hear we have been probably been doing the right thing.
Hmmm..I drink more coffee on the weekends than doing the week. I wonder if the weekend consumption has a cumulative effect? I’m a hot tea drinker at work because the coffee provided is swill.
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Didn’t you know it’s healthy to get up from that office chair and take a little walk at least once an hour?
Nobody talks too me in the morning unless they are handing me coffee.
A man with understanding.
More wars were fought over coffee, than tea. When the subject was coffee (plantations) that's when it got real.
Caffeine and nicotine -- or else (nothing personal) you die. Choose wisely.
I'm well armed, and keep my eyes fixed firmly upon my own future needs...
Can I get a witness
I'm talkin', talkin' 'bout my baby
I think I'll go
have another
cup right now
Bump
My default is Starbucks Colombia. My current bag is Earthfare Ethiopia in their lightest roast as an experiment and I am really liking it.
As long as you don’t add in all that crap to it! Sugar and creamers and all that garbage!
Drink it like a man!
8 oz is a mug? My mug is more than 16 oz, it might be 20 oz. But I drink tea mostly. 8 oz is a little measuring cup, teensy really.
...or better said, "voiding" avoids kidney stone buildup. :)
Hey, if this is true. I’M GONNA LIVE A LOOOOONG TIME!
I just eat like my parents and grandparents ate. Meat and veggies and sweets and booze for special occasions.
I don’t care what the latest nutritionist fad is. We never avoided butter and were not scared of fat.
We stay active. Still see a lot of cancer which I don’t understand.
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