Coffee as a health drink...

We all know that coffee is a lifesaver for most of us in the morning but few realize that coffee can "literally" save our lives.....read on...
Moderate amounts of caffeinated drinks, including coffee, before exercise or before a game are acceptable and can even provide benefits for an athlete used to drinking such beverages. Moderate translates into about three cups of coffee. Coffee has almost reached the status of a health drink. It provides protection against heart attacks, strokes and diabetes. And it might decrease the risk of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. It's a source of magnesium, chromium, potassium and the B vitamin niacin. It contains antioxidants. Oxidants are byproducts of cells that act to promote effects similar to those of rust. Antioxidants are rust-proofing materials. click to read more: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091031/LIFE/910310318

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Coffee is a good beverage choice

Coffee once deemed harmful to health is turning out to be in many ways a beneficial one. It could protect against diabetes, heart disease and stroke, liver cancer, cirrhosis and Parkinson's disease and increase athletic performance. Lots of new research, and the recognition that older, negative studies often failed to tease apart the effects of coffee and those of smoking because so many coffee drinkers were also smokers. "Coffee is a complex beverage with hundreds, if not thousands, of bioactive ingredients, a cup of coffee is 2% caffeine, 98% other stuff."

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-coffee18-2009may18,0,7483815.column

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