There is a perfectly good reason why caffeine is the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world –as it wakes us up, helps us stay on task, and provides an oft-needed energy boost.
I think that there is no person that wouldn’t like to enjoy the coffee and its smell of freshly grounded heaven!
And majority of us in the Americas and Europe get our caffeine fix from coffee.
As coffee sometimes feels like crutch people are often considering to limit their coffee consumption or cut it out completely.
One is likely to exaggerate it on caffeine –many heavy coffee drinkers exceed the recommended limit of 400 mg of caffeine per day, and that can cause insomnia, restlessness, or a fast heartbeat, especially if consumed too fast.
However, according to most researchers, coffee consumption proved that coffee is not bad for us, and is linked to pretty amazing health benefits. For instance, coffee drinkers are less likely to suffer from certain illnesses.
Though there are plenty of foods and drinks that most of us should consume less, but coffee shouldn’t be on that list.
Liver health: According to a review that included the results of nine studies, regularly drinking coffee in moderate amounts prevents the risk for cirrhosis. According to the review, drinking one cup of coffee reduces the risk for cirrhosis for a 22%, liver disease that is often caused by heavy alcohol consumption. Two daily cups were associated with a 43% reduced risk, three cups with 57% reduced risk, and four cups with 65% reduced risk.
Heart disease: A review including over 200 studies discovered people who drank three or four cups of coffee per day were 19% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease.
Type 2 diabetes: according to one large review of studies, drinking more than one cup of coffee per day was connected with a 7% reduced risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.
Cancer: according to one review, heavy coffee drinkers (who had at least three cups a day) are 18% less likely to have cancer.
Another review found that at least one cup each day was associated with 15% reduced risk for liver cancer and an 8% reduced risk for endometrial cancer.
Some data showed that coffee drinkers are at very low risk of suffering from oral/pharyngeal cancer and advanced prostate cancer as well.
Alzheimer’s disease and dementia: A meta-analysis of studies about coffee intake and brain health indicated that regular coffee drinkers were approximately 16% less likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s, dementia, or cognitive decline.
Depression: One large study including over 50,000 women indicated that drinking at least a cup of coffee each week was connected with 15% reduced risk for depression, and drinking two to three cups per day was connected with 20% reduced risk.
Another study that examined over than 100,000 men and women discovered that coffee drinkers were 45% less likely to die from suicide and heavy coffee drinkers (four or more cups a day) 53% less likely to die from suicide.
Overall mortality: One large study in which 500,000 European people took part, showed that in a 16-year-period, men who drank three or more cups per day were 12% less likely to die, and women 7% less likely to die.
In particular, people were less likely to die from circulatory and digestive diseases. Heavy coffee drinkers also maintained healthier lives.
Another study of 185,855 Americans proved that result. People who drank one cup per day were 12% less likely to die. Two to three cups were linked to an 18% decrease in risk for early death.