Your Health and Coffee

If you think you're leading a healthy lifestyle, watching what you eat, balancing the old diet, staying in shape, walking or jogging every now and then and then some trumped up scientist tells you that you are still doing something wrong. Nobody is in this game to take away the little pleasures in life but if the first thing you do every morning is fetch yourself a nice cup of freshly brewed coffee you should catch up on the facts about those little black beans.
Reports have been varied and there is considerable controversy over what coffee does to the body. Even the scientists can't agree on everything but one thing for sure is that coffee is chock-full of a variety of active chemicals . Plus of course the famous drug 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine, better known as caffeine.
The buzz on the brew has been very bad for most of the 70's and 80's when coffee was associated with the occurrences of heart attacks, pancreatic cancer, birth defects, miscarriages and many other ill effects. None of these were played out to be true, or at least not true when coffee is taken in moderation.
More recently though the positive effects of coffee have been coming to the foreground; research suggests that you can lower your risk of diabetes with a certain amount of coffee each day. Liver cirrhosis, Parkinson's disease, gallstones and even suicide rates were said to be lowered when coffee was thrown into the mix.

Positive Side of the Cup
Reason enough to drink coffee is that it can be a very rich source of antioxidants, essential components of the body's defense systems.

Negative side of the Cup
Most people know what happens when we drink too much. Coffee "jitters" are caused when someone has too much caffeine and is not very pleasant. This may promote the anxiety and irritability seen in some coffee drinkers.