Java Jive: Coffee, A Health Food?

Java Jive: Coffee, A Health Food?

If you have just opened your computer to check morning email, first cuppa at hand, that might be a very good thing for your health. Not the emails. The coffee. (But plan to have at least two more cups.) Huff Post food and health editor Kate Bratskeir spills the latest beans on your favorite bean.

image, courtesy Huff POst

image, courtesy Huff POst

If coffee is already a part of your morning routine, chances are it’s not going anywhere. And according to a pot’s worth of research, that’s great news.

The most recent study on coffee, published this month in the journal Circulation, found that a three to five cups of the drink daily could help prevent premature death. When people say they live for coffee, they may really mean it.

Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health concluded that drinkers of both caffeinated and decaf coffee were at a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, Type 2 diabetes, and suicide. They analyzed health data from three large ongoing studies for which 167,944 female participants and 40,557 male participants have their food habits evaluated every four years. Currently, the studies include 30 years of data…

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