Benefits of Drinking Coffee for Your Body and Health

Drinking coffee can indeed increase levels of stress hormones in the body and trigger the effects of dependence on caffeine. But here are some of the health benefits of coffee, with your notes limiting the use of kream and sugar:

• Coffee prevents gallstone 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.

• Coffee can 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, according to a 2011 report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

• Coffee can increase memory
  Coffee can help improve memory, be it long-term memory or short. In a 2005 study presented at the Radiological Society of North America, researchers found that consuming two cups of caffeinated coffee increased short-term memory and reaction speed.

More interestingly, a 2007 study found that women aged 65 or over who regularly drank 3 or more cups of coffee a day had better performance in memory tests and were less likely to show memory decline than those who drank only one cup a day.

• Coffee lowers 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.

But not only women who benefit. A recent study out of the Harvard School of Public Health found that regular or non-caffeinated coffee resulted in a reduced risk of prostate cancer.

• Coffee increases the body's 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.

• Coffee lowers the risk of Parkinson's disease
  "Journal of the American Medical Association" in 2000 found that consumption of caffeine and coffee would result in a lower risk of developing Parkinson's. A 2010 study also found that drinking two to three cups of coffee daily makes a person 25 percent less likely to have the disease.

• Coffee 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 fact, a 2005 study found that coffee is in the first unrutan as a source for antioxidants in the diet of Americans.

• Coffee improves performance and performance
  Coffee - and caffeine in it - has been shown in several studies to improve endurance and short-term performance. A 2008 study concluded that the benefits of caffeine before exercise appear in endurance, stop-and-go moments and on long-term high-intensity activities.

It can also help athletes perform well during strength training - even when lack of sleep - if consumed one hour before exercise at a dose of 4 mg for each kg of body weight.

• Coffee can prevent gout
  A 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.

Neither regular or decaffeinated coffee would have a positive effect, and those who drank six cups a day had a 60 percent lower risk of escaping the condition of gout