Drinking Coffee? Good. Keep Drinking. It's Actually Really Good For You
According to the lines at Starbucks every morning, coffee is essential to just about everyone's morning. In fact, according to Zagat's 2015 Coffee Consumption Survey, 82% of us drink coffee every day. And now, thanks to science, the drinking coffee every day has actually been proven to increase your health in many different ways.
Even just smelling coffee in the morning can help lower stress levels according to researches at Seoul National University. The next time you're feeling stressed, try smelling some ground coffee first.
Drinking coffee drives the production of serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline which help regulate your mood. Regular coffee drinkers are 10% less likely to be depressed than non-coffee drinkers. This stimulation is also proposed to be the reason drinking 2-4 cups of coffee a day can significantly reduce the risk of suicide.
Researchers at Harvard University found that women who drink at least 3 cups of coffee per day are less likely than coffee abstainers to develop skin cancer.
The caffeine in coffee will give you the boost you need for a morning workout while also increasing the fatty acids in your blood which allows your body to burn that fat as you exercise.
Your afternoon coffee run sharpens your brain to make smarter decisions and studies conducted at The University of Miami found that drinking coffee daily also reduced the risk of developing Alzheimer's.
The American Chemical Society studied the effects of coffee and concluded that drinking 4 or more cups of coffee each day reduces the odds of developing Type 2 Diabetes by 50%.
