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Great
News For Coffee Drinkers!!
Ultimate Perk
America's latest health jolt
comes from coffee!
Science has
spoken, and the verdict is to keep passing the java!
Not only does coffee help give people that much-needed jump-start
so many of us desperately need,
but our beloved dark beverage evidently has
health benefits too.
The latest research shows about two cups a day provide
the body
with more cancer-fighting antioxidants than any other food.
Coffee lovers owe University of Scranton chemistry professor Joe Vinson for one
more reason to keep drinking coffee. Coffee, he told the American Chemical
Society's annual convention in Washington, has more antioxidants than
vegetables, fruit, and grains, hands down.
"Coffee wins the
antioxidant race," he said. "Nothing else we eat or drink comes close."
The Pennsylvania
professor made that finding almost by accident, when he decided to throw
coffee into research analyzing the antioxidant content in tea, cocoa and
about 100 other foods. (We can't imagine why coffee wasn't toward the top of
the list in the first place!!)
The difference is
dramatic. About a couple of cups of coffee a day gives the average adult
around 1,299 milligrams of antioxidants, more than four times the amount in
tea. And as for fruit and vegetables, bananas give you a mere 76 milligrams;
corn, a paltry 48. Now that's not to say you should try to substitute coffee
for fruit and vegetables. That would be a really bad idea!
So is drinking too
much coffee, because too much of it can give some folks the jitters, make
them irritable and raise their cholesterol levels. Yet the chemist's news is
bound to make every coffeehouse in the country happy, and as an added bonus,
Mr. Vinson reports that coffee and its antioxidants have positive effects on
enzymes and genes.
So take your coffee --
like everything else -- in moderation. But take it! Other articles:
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/514008/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9696998/\
http://academic.scranton.edu/faculty/VINSON/take_two_cups_of_cofeee_and_call.htm
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