Whether you like yours hot, iced, black or with sugar, one thing’s for sure: Coffee serves up plenty of health benefits. Not only can a cup of Joe help ward off depression, but it has even been linked with a decreased rate of skin cancer and increased fertility. Read on to learn about the unexpected heath benefits of coffee, plus other brew-related facts.
1. Coffee can help ward off depression in women.
For our women truck drivers out there a study from the Harvard School of Public Health, published last month in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that women who regularly drink fully caffeinated coffee have a 20% lower risk of depression than non-coffee drinkers. The study mentioned that the 20% boast care from those who drink up to 4 6 oz cups a day. Anyone who perks up after the first sip of morning coffee will tell you that they love that morning with “Folgers in your cup”. Now there’s proof: The study, which followed a group of 50,001 women for 9 years, found that as more coffee was consumed the likelihood of depression decreased.
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2. It may help promote a healthy weight.
Drinking a cup of coffee after a meal can be more than a relaxing habit. “When you drink coffee after a meal, it causes your body to more slowly process the meal you just ate,” says Chris Kilham, medical researcher, founder of Medicine Hunter, Inc. and author of Psyche Delicacies. According to David Levitsky, PhD, professor of nutritional science at Cornell University, “Caffeine decreases the rate at which the stomach dumps its contents into the duodenum-a part of the small intestine where digestion takes place-and also increases metabolic rate.” Coffee has been proven to regulate blood sugar levels and the metabolism to reduce the risk of developing type II diabetes. Also, coffee provides greater energy prior to a workout allowing you to burn more calories while you are exercising. Plus, the recent research that rumor that coffee can contribute to heart disease is no longer accepted, and it provides other health benefits that do not harm your heart.
If you are dieting and looking for an additional way to burn calories without taking things that could harm you like diet pills, coffee is a more natural way to help you loss weight because it contains caffeine which can keep your metabolism revving the majority of the day. This will help you to burn additional calories even if you are just sitting in your truck! Of course, we are not talking about your super sugary coffee drinking, the main ones being severed at commercial coffee shops. Those blends often can rack in hundreds of calories per drink, definitely having the adverse affect on your diet plan. We are talking about drinking your coffee completely black without adding cream or sugar because it only has 2 calories in a single cup. So you must be aware that the extra tablespoons of sugar you are adding to your coffee can be a big problem.
Another word of caution is in the many snacks often associated with regular coffee drinking. We have all experienced a work meeting serving coffee and donuts, and how can you resist? A doughnut has around 300 calories, and a larger muffin can have up to 700 calories! This is incredibly shocking, so try to pair your coffee with a delicious and nutritious breakfast, like healthy omelettes, whole-grain cereal, or even fruit. There is a healthy and delicious way to enjoy your cup of Joe, after all.
With all of the recent studies popping up, coffee can be considered a healthy beverage. It reduces the risk of a number of different diseases, including Alzheimer’s, cirrhosis of the liver, and stroke. A recent study also revealed that both younger and older men intaking the caffeine in coffee showed a thermogenic response, meaning that they burned excess fat as a result. This is helpful to know in that if you are hoping to lose additional weight, coffee can be the tool that you are looking for to give you the energy to work out, burn additional fat, and burn calories throughout the day!
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3. It may reduce the risk of skin cancer.
Staying out of the sun and regularly applying a liberal amount of SPF should always be your number one line of defense against skin cancer. That said, a new study out of Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that women who drank more than three 6 oz cups of coffee a day had a 20% lower risk for basal cell carcinoma, and men had a 9% reduced risk. However, the research did not indicate that coffee consumption reduced the risk of squamous cell carcinoma or melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, making it all the more important to protect your skin when outdoors. The study could not prove cause-and-effect, however, and at this point the finding remains an association only. The may association they could find was caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee. In the case study of the people that drank decaffeinated coffee there was not an association with a decreased risk of basal cell carcinoma.
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4. Is coffee truly addictive?
Having a truck driving job you know that your day does not get off on the right foot if you do not have your morning cup of coffee. We all know that you can not leave the truck stop with out it otherwise we do not feel our normal self. Does this mean that coffee is addicting? Liz Applegate, PhD, faculty member and director of sports nutrition at the University of California at Davis, explains that caffeine and therefore coffee is not addictive. “Caffeine is a mild stimulant, and the World Health Organization states that it is wrong to compare caffeine intake to drug addiction, since people can reduce or eliminate caffeine from their diet without the serious psychological or physical problems that result from a true addiction.
” That said, we have to note that the study did mention that those who are serious coffee drinkers may experience fatigue and irritability if they reduce their intake. According to Dr. Applegate, people who consume 600 milligrams of caffeine (about six small cups of coffee) daily are most likely to experience these symptoms. The fatigue and irritability will usually resolve themselves after a few days without coffee where truly addictive stimulants can take months to feel normal without.
All in all, almost ever study that we found on the affects of coffee came down to decaffeinated versus caffeinated coffee. This lead us to believe that the true factor is caffeine.
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