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The latest studies show that coffee has healthful benefits.\u00a0 Let me say up front that if you are one of those nervous types who, when you ingest caffeine, your molecules vibrate so quickly they start to become invisible as you bounce off the walls \u2013 by all means ignore this article.\u00a0 I\u2019d hate to think that harm came to you or your loved ones from seeking the healthy coffee benefits I am about to describe.<\/p>\n
But for the rest of us, coffee has been shown to offer some nice benefits; according to an article in Southern Living magazine.\u00a0 The Mayo Clinic<\/a> and Harvard Medical School<\/a> agree, and that’s good enough for me.<\/p>\n Caffeine increases short term recall; making it easier for us to remember where we left things; like our coffee mug.\u00a0 Plus, those who drink 3 to 5 cups of coffee a day are 65% less likely to develop Alzheimer\u2019s disease or dementia.\u00a0 And it reduces the chance of developing Parkinson’s in men.\u00a0 Let\u2019s remember that a standard coffee mug holds two cups of liquid.\u00a0 I generally drink 3 mugs of coffee before *breakfast*!<\/p>\n Folks who drink 3 to 4 cups of coffee per day have been shown to be 25% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes \u2013 UNLESS they load it down with sweeteners.\u00a0 I figure the caffeine buzz gets our cells dancing around so well that it burns off the extra glucose almost as efficiently as a hard day’s work out in the field.\u00a0 Almost. (Or maybe it’s the appetite suppressant quality that just helps us eat less and crave fewer sweets.)<\/p>\n Antioxidants help protect you from heart disease, stroke and other maladies.\u00a0 Coffee is rich in antioxidants.\u00a0 That makes it \u201chealth food\u201d, right?\u00a0 Now, it can raise cholesterol if you do not use paper filters; which take the fatty stuff out.\u00a0 Even if you have a “permanent” filter in your machine, use paper filters too.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re a coffee drinker and a hard worker (or periodic exerciser) a recent study showed that two cups of fresh brew ingested just before exercising reduced muscle soreness and stiffness afterward by almost 50%.<\/p>\n Of course cancer studies are often open to interpretation, but there is evidence showing that those who drink coffee regularly show up in the groups that resist liver cancer twice as often as those who don\u2019t.\u00a0 That should mean a 50% reduction in your risk of liver cancer just by enjoying a mug of Joe every day.<\/p>\n Since coffee comes from beans, it counts as a serving of vegetables.\u00a0 Oh, no, wait\u2026 that\u2019s only if you eat the grounds after finishing the coffee.\u00a0 Never mind!<\/p>\n Now… if I could just get coffee bushes to grow here in our mountains!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest studies show that coffee has healthful benefits. Let me say up front that if you are one of those nervous types who, when you ingest caffeine, your molecules vibrate so quickly they start to become invisible as you bounce off the walls – by all means ignore this article. I’d hate to think … Continue reading “Serving Up 6 Healthy Perks for Coffee Drinkers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21567,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/21567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Coffee is a Brain Builder<\/h1>\n
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