Coffee And Your Health

The Benefits of Coffee To Your Body

1. Boost your health! Roasted coffee contains Niacin - a B vitamin that plays an important role in maintaining a healthy nervous and digestive system.
   (Source: Press TV, 27 December 2007, "Alterntive Meicine: Coffee")
   
   
2. A survey carried out by researchers at the university of Scranton, Pennsylvania, shows that coffee is the
   one source of antioxidants for Americans. 1  Other studies have shown that coffee has in fact four times 
   more antioxidants than green tea! 2
   
   (Source: 1: Coffee Tao The Way (Growing, Buying and Enjoying) of Coffee, "Coffee: More Antioxidants Than Tea?" & 2: HealthandAge, 9 May 2005, "Coffee is number one source of Antioxidants")
   
   
3. Coffee is useful way to hydrate despite its association as diuretic as recent shows that caffeine, at the levels commonly consumed in coffee, is no more a diuretic than water. Thus coffee, along with other popular drinks, is recognized as an important source of fluid in the diet when consumed in moderation.
   (Source: The British Coffee Association, "Fluid Intake")
   
   
4. It was reported that scientists of Harvard University, USA, had carried out a coffee consumption experiment on 16 people. Results showed that taking in many small cups of coffee during the day is more effective in keeping one awake as compared to having one large cup of coffee in the morning.
   (Source: Medical News Today, 12 May 2004, "Many Small Cups of Coffee During The Day Keeps You Awake Better Than Few Big Cups")
   
   
5. According to an article in Reuters Health, a study in Italy's University of Bari, suggested that drinking coffee might help in preventing people from developing late-onset blepharospasm, an involuntary muscle contraction that leads to uncontrollable twitching of the eye. This disorder usually strikes people in their late 40s and 50s.
   (Source: Reuters, 7 August 2007, "Drinking coffee may prevent eyelid twitch")
   
   
6. With reference to an article in Reuters, researchers from the French National Institute of Medical Research had discovered that drinking more than three cups a cofee a day is likely to aid elderly women against old-age memory deterioration. They had also found that men, however, do not reap the same benefit.
   (Source: Reuters, 7 August 2007, "Coffee may slow memory declines in women: study")
   
   
7. An article from US National Library of Medicine states that in a 1983 Italian National Health Survey,an inverse relationship between coffee consumption and asthma was observed. Based on 72, 284 people studied, a long term moderate coffee consumption seemed to have helped in reducing risk of asthma.
   (Source: Chest 1988 August; 94 (2) 386-9, Pagano R, Negri E, Decarli A, La Vecchia C "Coffee drinking and prevelence of bronchial asthma")