Coffee Does It Offer Health Benefits?
From MayoClinic
Q: I'm confused. Is coffee good or bad for me?
A: Coffee has a long history of being blamed for many ills — from the humorous, "It will stunt your growth" to the not-so-humorous claim that it causes heart disease and cancer. But some recent research indicates that coffee may not be so bad after all. So which is it — good or bad for your health? The best answer may be: It doesn't seem to hurt and it may help.One large study of 128,000 men and women showed no increase in the risk of heart disease from drinking filtered coffee. The findings — which will publish on May 2, 2006, in the journal "Circulation" — indicated that it didn't matter how much coffee participants drank.
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So, what do you think? Personally, I think this quite good news for us coffee lovers. This articles tells us that all those palpitations and chills and shivers we feel when we gulp down liters and liters of the black stuff (or brownish if you've added cream or milk) are all figments of our hyper-imagination.
However, as the doctrine states -- everything should be taken in moderation -- anything beyond the normal would be bad for you. Anything less than normal may also be bad for you. And that's dictum applies to practically all things even to the consumption of coffee.
Well, at least I've cut down on my number of coffee mugs. In my younger years (about 4-5 years ago actually), I used to consume six mugs of coffee a day on the peak to an average of about three. Nowadays, I'm down to one or two ... three mugs at most when the need is truly dire.
You be the judge, you coffee-lover you!
