Coffee is very popular as a drink in the morning to start the day for body and mind to be fresher, and also commonly used as a beverage to accompany during sleep late at night.
Although not categorized as a health food or drink, not a few studies have revealed that drinking coffee to 3 cups or more a day has health benefits and here are 7 benefits of drinking coffee for health :
1 Increase Metabolism
Coffee can help you maintain or even lose weight. An old study in 1980 found that caffeine found in coffee stimulates the body's metabolism, and it is only in normal people, whereas in people who are obese, they experience greater fat oxidation.
2 Prevent Gout
In 2007 study in men over the age of 40 linked long-term coffee consumption with a lower risk of gout, an inflammatory condition caused by elevated levels of uric acid.
3 Reduce the Risk of Diabetes
Studies show that coffee drinkers are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes because the effects of compounds contained in coffee will inhibit hIAPP, a polypeptide that can produce abnormal protein fibers, found in people with type 2 diabetes.
4 Lowering Cancer Risk
Coffee consumption has been associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer, endometrium, prostate and liver cancer, and those associated with obesity, estrogen and insulin. A 2008 study in Sweden found that drinking at least two to three cups a day may reduce the risk or delay the onset of breast cancer.
5 Prevent Gallstones Disease
The Harvard researchers in 2002 found that women who drank at least four cups of coffee a day were at a 25 percent lower risk of gallstones. An earlier study found similar results for men.
6 Able to Prevent Depression
Women who drank two to three cups of coffee a day were 15 percent less likely to get depressed, and those who drank four cups had a 20 percent lower risk.
7 Contains High Antioxidants
A Harvard researcher, Edward Giovannucci, in a study published in "Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention," notes that coffee has more antioxidants than most vegetables and fruits.
In conclusion, besides coffee can cause dependence also has so many health benefits, such as 7 benefits that have been authors summarize above and many other benefits caused by drinking coffee.
