21/02/2013
Two Benefits of Coffee for your Health, Performance & Body Composition:
1. Coffee Decreases Risk of Total & All-Cause Mortality -
At least 5 recent studies show that drinking coffee is associated with a decreased risk of mortality in men and women from a variety of ethnicities. For example, a large scale 14-year observational study of more than 400,000 people found that the more coffee people drank, the lower their risk of mortailty.
Men who drank 2 to 3 cups a day had a 10 percent lower risk of mortality and those who drank 4 to 5 cups per day had a 12 percent lower risk. Drinking 6 or more cups decreased mortality by another 10 percent compared to non-drinkers. The figures were slightly higher in women, and the remained after adjusting for cofounders like age, body fat, race, education and lifestyle factors.
2. Coffee Lowers Risk of a Variety of Cancers -
Coffee drinking has been associated with a lower risk of lung, prostate, breast, endometrial, pancreatic, stomach, and colon cancer. In some studies the association is robust, while others have shown no benefit from coffee, which could be due to many reasons. But, it seems clear that coffee can be protective and does not increase cancer risk.
It is the antioxidants caffeic and chlorogenic acid that coffee provides that are protective against cancer and other disease. An example of how the antioxidants lower cancer risk is with endometrial cancer, which is a cancer of the lining of the uterus. A study of over 67,000 women demonstrated that women who drank 4 or more cups of coffee per day had a 25 percent lower risk than those who did not drink coffee regularly.
Researchers think the high antioxidant activity in coffee lowered oxidative stress, and that coffee also upregulates the expression of enzymes in the liver that help metabolize estrogen down the healthiest 2-hydroxyestrone pathway. This is a much preferred pathway for detoxifying estrogen from the body and it plays a role in preventing estrogen-related cancers such as breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer in men.
I will share more benefits of coffee with you tomorrow, happy reading and happy drinking.
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