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    Default Re: A cup of coffee may help protect your brain

    Link?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reverend Joe View Post
    Link?

    I trust you, but I just wanna know where this came from.
    Oh yeah, it came from the BBC. I have a nasty habit of not posting links.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7326839.stm



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    Well not a fan of coffee im a Coca Cola man myself, so this is good news, i just need to start taking in too much cholesterol to make it worthwile...
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    As a moderate to heavy coffee drinker, I can tell you that there is a laundry list of alleged* benefits to drinking the stuff.

    This ranges from what you just outlined to reduced risk of diabetes and colon cancer. I've also heard that coffee could inhibit the growth of bacteria that cause tooth decay. And, it's a good source of anti-oxidants.

    Here's a blurb from Wikipedia on the subject of coffee and its health effects:
    Coffee appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, heart disease, diabetes mellitus type 2, cirrhosis of the liver,[69] and gout, but it increases the risk of acid reflux and associated diseases.
    I'd also point out that I drink my coffee black and adding sugar and fat(via milk or cream) obviously makes it less healthy.

    *I say "alleged" because I'm not really sure how thorough all of the studies suggesting these benefits are.
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    Default Re: A cup of coffee may help protect your brain

    Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou View Post
    As a moderate to heavy coffee drinker, I can tell you that there is a laundry list of alleged* benefits to drinking the stuff.

    This ranges from what you just outlined to reduced risk of diabetes and colon cancer. I've also heard that coffee could inhibit the growth of bacteria that cause tooth decay. And, it's a good source of anti-oxidants.

    Here's a blurb from Wikipedia on the subject of coffee and its health effects:
    I'd also point out that I drink my coffee black and adding sugar and fat(via milk or cream) obviously makes it less healthy.

    *I say "alleged" because I'm not really sure how thorough all of the studies suggesting these benefits are.
    A cup of coffee actually has around 5 times the amount of antioxidents in it then green tea. Just to bad coffee doesnt have the loads of omega-3's green tea has. Adding cream or milk to coffee isnt really all that bad, milk fats are quite healthy and much better then the other fats in our lives. Sugar evil nuff said, get rid of that 50/50 glucose to fructose demon.

    The main problem with coffee is that it causes lots of cortisol production. Which while cortisol is important, you don't want alot of it for sustained periods. While in the short term it cuases fat stores to mobolize in the blood stream leading to easier oxidation in muscles, but it can also cause the breakdown of some muscle tissue. In the long term it cuases growth of the fat stores around your abdomin and hips, a region where fat tissue produces estrogen in the highest levels. So it has it's benefits but heavy use leads to some bad side effects, and the wonderful cascade of having increased estrogen levels in your body.

    Best advice don't use anything excessively, heavy coffee drinking is of course bad for your health in the long run no matter the amount of antioxidants of other benefits. Coffee/green tea right before cardio is also a nice trick to boost your fat losses, just don't drink caffeine before wieght lifting.
    Last edited by BigTex; 07-25-2008 at 14:51.
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    Default Re: A cup of coffee may help protect your brain

    My word of advice? Don't believe anything medically given by the media until you read the real paper since they tend to oversimplify everything.
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    Good news . I only started drinking coffee a few months ago, but since then I have been slipping willingly into addiction.
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