Coffee Helping Research for Parkinson’s Disease
For new medications for the treatment of Parkinson’s to Dementia, scientists are looking to coffee! Caffeine, the world’s most widely used drug, can do more than just wake people up. Various studies have linked caffeine to improvements in memory and protection against the destruction of brain cells. One study found...
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More Calcium May Extend Your Life!
A group of Swedish researchers recently released a study which showed that a greater intake of calcium may help men live longer. The sudy was led by Dr. Joanna Kaluza of the Karolinska Instutet of Stockholm, and followed 23,366 men aged 45 to 79 for a 10 year period from 1998 through 2007. The men had indicated their diet at the beginning of the study. At the end of the study, 2,358 or 10% of the men had died from all causes. The study found that the top third of men who consumed the most calcium — getting nearly 2,000 milligrams a day — were 25% less likely...
Good For Your Heart — Another Coffee Success Study
We’ve long known that coffee is good for your heart. Coffee is loaded with antioxidants — those molecules that help stop the chain reactions of free radicals in your system. And by stopping those chain reactions, a person is much better off in defense against cancer and heart disease. Now there is a new study which shows that regular coffee consumption aids those people with heart rhythm problems. The study was led by Dr. Arthur Klatsky, a senior consultant at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in California, and looked at the rate of hospitalization of more than 130,000 people. The...
Coffee Drinking May Lower Stroke Risk
There is a new study which shows that regular coffee drinking appears to reduce the risk of stroke. According to Ed Edelson, writing for HealthDay Reporter, a study led by Yangmei Li of the University of Cambridge in England showed a 27 percent lower risk of stroke among people who indicated they regularly drank coffee versus those who said they never drank coffee. The study followed 23,000 men and women for a 12 year period, and found the association of reduced risk of stroke was consistent across subgroups of sex, age, social class, educational level, smoking status, alcohol drinking, tea drinking, and physical...
“An Unashamed Defense of Coffee” – Great Read!
Coffee is certainly a great deal more than caffeine. Coffee is loaded with bioactive chemical compounds that help prevent a host of ailments! The green coffee bean has the greatest concentration of antioxidants of anything grown! Coffee does not stain your teeth! Coffee is healthier than colas, tea, chocolate, wine, and spirits! Despite all that, coffee has received a bad rap over the centuries….even though today over 1 billion people started their day with coffee. Two Ph.D.s have spent their careers in the study of coffee and its effects on human pleasure and human health, and have written a wonderful...
Antioxidants and Coffee
Much has been written about antioxidants, and how a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can help ward off heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and other illnesses. Antioxidants are derived from plants, and are those molecules that are capable of slowing or preventing the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation reactions can produce free radicals that start chain reactions that can damage cells. Antioxidants terminate these chain reactions by removing the free radicals. Among fruit and vegetables, the best sources include blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, beans, artichoke hearts, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, and in spices, cinnamon, oregano and cloves. Research indicates it is...
