Your Body On Coffee

Your Body On Coffee

Sure, it’s addictive and you’re right to blame it for sometimes giving you jitters, but coffee works head to toe for its health halo. Drink it all in:

• Memory
  200 mg of caffeine -the amount in two 8-oz cups -improved long-term memory in a recent study.
• Mood
  Depression risk was 20% lower in women who drank 4 daily 8-oz cups of coffee, finds a Harvard School of Public Health study. Caffeine may affect brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine.
• Heart 
  200 to 300 mg of caffeine a day make your heart perform better by improving blood flow during rest.
• Skin
  Women who consumed more than 3 cups of coffee a day had a significantly lower risk of basal cell carcinoma in a 2012 study
• Liver
  Drinking more than 2 cups of coffee a day appears to protect against liver diseases such as cirrhosis.
• Energy 
  Drink 3 to 4 cups of coffee an hour prior to a workout and you’ll go for longer, finds a PLoS One study.
• Feet
  Drinking 6 daily cups of coffee reduced the risk of gout for men by 59%. Coffee appears to lower levels of uric acid in the blood.
• Diabetes Risk
  Drinking six 8-oz cups of coffee daily was linked to a 33% lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to Harvard review of 28 studies.