Coffee's Healing Power

Do you love coffee as much as I do. Well "Reader's Digest" has a good news for us. But before that let me share with a short argument I had yesterday with my co-worker. He saw me making coffee over the pantry and he told me I should slow down on my coffee intake because it increases the risk of heart attack. And I quickly corrected him and even asked him where he got that wrong information. There are no known link between heavy coffee drinkers and heart attack. Although there were suspensions, studies had been conducted to prove or disprove those suspensions but so far they found no such link. But according to Reader's Digest people who have coffee of up to six cups a day are five times less likely to develop Parkinson's Disease, this was according to Webster Ross, a Neurologist. He said caffeine helps protect the brain cells from damage that leads to Parkinson's.

Other benefits from drinking coffee were added in 2003, when researchers from Harvard University found that people who consumes 4 to five cups of coffee a day cut their risk of type 2 Diabetes by 30 percent. Also another study in Germany at the University of Munster identified that there is a certain compound in coffee that can protect against colon cancer.

If all these reason and more will not convince all you coffee lovers out there that more than all the bad press coffee has been getting coffee is good for our health. But like everything else, anything that is in excess, coffee taken more than what our body can take can also entail bad side effects.

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