Coffee Health Benefits: How Coffee Might Save Your Life - The Daily Beast
Okay, I’m going back for a second cup of coffee immediately. After all, I’ve got to start squeezing more into my day after reading these statistics. Could this all be true? (too good….) Click on the article link for all the scientific references.
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1. Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day reduces the risk of basal-cell carcinoma by 20 percent in women and 9 percent in men.
2. Drinking one to five cups of coffee per day reduces your risk of having a stroke by as much as 25 percent.
3. Women who drink four cups of coffee per day are 20 percent less likely to be clinically depressed than women who drink only one cup of coffee per week.
4. People who drink more than six cups of coffee per day are 35 percent less likely to have type 2 diabetes than people who drink fewer than two cups of coffee per day.
5. Coffee drinkers are about twice as likely as non-coffee drinkers not to develop the potentially deadly methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in their nostrils.
6. People who drink four or more cups of coffee per day are 80 percent less likely to develop cirrhosis of the liver than are people who drink no coffee.
7. Women who drink one to five cups of coffee a day—including decaf—reduce their risk of death from all causes by 15 to 19 percent compared to women who drink no coffee at all.
8. Men who drink at least six cups of coffee per day are 60 percent less likely to develop lethal prostate cancer than men who drink no coffee.
9. Coffee-drinking increases the risk of intracranial aneurysm by 10.6 percent.
10. Men who drink two to three cups of coffee per day are 60 percent less likely to develop gallstones than are men who drink no coffee.
11. Men who drink at least six cups of coffee per day are 63 percent less likely to have Parkinson’s disease than are men who drink no coffee.
12. People who drink at least three cups of coffee per day while undergoing standard treatment for hepatitis C are nearly twice as likely to respond positively to this treatment as are non-coffee drinkers.
13. The amount of caffeine contained in two cups of coffee can reduce postworkout muscle pain by nearly 50 percent.
14. Women who drink at least one 12-ounce cup of coffee per day while pregnant are potentially twice as likely to miscarry as are women who drink no coffee while pregnant.
