Get the Health Benefits of Coffee in Every Cup

 

'There may be a cup on your desk right now, but are you getting the full  health benefits of coffee?  If certain parameters are met in its preparation and serving, coffee can actually provide multiple health benefits. Read on to learn about coffee’s medicinal uses and the 10 key steps that make sure the health benefits of coffee come to you with the next pot you brew.'

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Mounting Evidence Suggests Coffee May Actually Have Therapeutic Health Benefits

By Dr. Mercola

'For years, physicians have been warning about the negative health effects of drinking coffee. You may have been told that coffee will raise your blood pressure, lead to heart disease, give you an ulcer or make you diabetic. But studies continue to roll in that caste doubt on this "common wisdom."

Certainly, like anything, coffee should not be used in excess. However, study after study has failed to prove that moderate coffee consumption increases your risk for cardiovascular disease or any other serious illness.

In fact, it's beginning to look like coffee—at least in moderation—may have a number of unrecognized health-promoting properties. As a result of the rather impressive list of therapeutic benefits, I've changed my recommendations about coffee.'


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Coffee: Drug, Medicine or Sacrament?

 

'Let us also not forget that one of the first documented uses of coffee over 500 years ago was in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen where coffee was known as qahhwat al-bun, or, the 'wine of the bean,' the phrase which provided the etymological origin of the word coffee. 
 

 

Once lauded as a "miracle drug" and used as a sacrament in late-night rituals to invoke the sensation of God within revelers, still today, coffee drinkers are known to cast themselves into bouts of coffee-drinking induced reverie and enthusiasm (literally: en "in" + theos "god" or "god-filled") by drinking this strangely intoxicating, and yet somehow still sobering concoction.'

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Mystery Compound in Coffee Protects Against Alzheimer’s

  
'Researchers publishing in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease have discovered that a natural chemical compound found in coffee combines with caffeine to create a protective shield against the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.  

Blood levels of a protective protein complex known as GCSF, short for granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, are stimulated by coffee consumption and are shown to thwart disease progress. Health-conscious individuals will want to consider drinking several cups of java each day to dramatically lower the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and preserve precious memories that can be stolen as the disease progresses.'

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A Hot Steaming Mug of Diabetes Prevention

'For some time now, scientists have known that coffee demonstrates protective effects against Type II diabetes. In fact, a number of studies have found that coffee drinkers are less likely to develop diabetes than are those who don’t imbibe. Up until now, however, the experts have been stumped about why this is the case.' 


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