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Why You Are Missing Out If You Are Not Adding Coffee To Your Lifestyle
There have been years and years of debates on whether coffee is bad for us. However, the argument has made a dramatic 360 turn: Coffee is indeed good for us!
After years of debating whether coffee is bad for us, the argument has made a dramatic U-turn: Is coffee good for us?
Coffee, in moderation, seems to be good for most people — that’s three to five daily cups, or up to 400 milligrams of caffeine.
The evidence is pretty consistent that coffee is associated with a lower risk of mortality and even filled with antioxidants! For years, coffee was believed to be a possible carcinogen. But in 2015, research that controlled for lifestyle factors, like how many heavy coffee drinkers also smoked, disproved that statement.
Since then, the swing has gone even further. A large 2017 review on coffee consumption and human health in the British Medical Journal found that moderate coffee drinkers had less cardiovascular disease and premature death from all causes.
Now experts say some of the strongest protective effects may be with Type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and liver conditions such as cirrhosis, liver cancer and chronic liver disease. Having about five cups of coffee a day, instead of none, is correlated with a 30% decreased…