10 Reasons to Drink Coffee Regularly

May be some of you assume that caffeine, the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world, must surely bad for you. Until today, researchers have conducted more than 21,000 researches on caffeine. In this article you will find a lot of surprisingly facts about caffeine and coffee.

Boost Brain Power

Caffeine can boost your brain power. This effect has been proven widely. According to Harris Lieberman, a researcher of the Military Nutrition Division of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, coffee consumption can improve your reaction time, vigilance, attention, and logical reasoning.

Caffeine can’t really change your intelligence. But it is able to heighten your mental performance. Lieberman says, “If you’re well rested, it tends to improve rudimentary brain functions, like keeping your attention focused on boring, repetitive tasks for long periods. It also tends to improve mood and makes people feel more energetic, generally better overall.”

Coffee and Pregnancy

Nowadays women are becoming more aware of the impact of diet during pregnancy. Some researches concluded that 53 % of women admitted to cutting coffee out of their diet completely whilst they were pregnant.

But, researches conducted by The Food Standards Agency, Royal College of Midwives and The Centre for Pregnancy and Nutrition agreed that consuming 300mg (3-4 cups of coffee) of caffeine every day is safe for pregnant women. However, it is important to be aware that caffeine is included in other food and drink and that these all contribute towards the 300mg recommended limit.

Coffee and Heart Attacks

In a research based on 58.888 non smokers, the researcher found no correlation between coffee and coronary artery disease, but high correlation was found in ex-smoker and base line smoker. The relation of coffee consumption to increased risk of coronary artery disease only in smokers could be explained by incomplete control for smoking. Another research, based on 44,000 women, found an inverse relationship between caffeine consumption and risk of myocardial infarction. Neither has there been any linear association found between caffeine and hypertension or adverse changes in lipids (except in boiled coffee).

Coffee consumption was associated with increased incidence of myocardial infarction only in those individuals with a genetic predisposition to slow caffeine metabolism. The other research suggested an increased risk of myocardial infarction in the first hour after coffee consumption, especially for occasional coffee drinkers.

And in 2007, scientists at Brooklyn College found that men who drank 4 cups of caffeinated coffee daily had a 53 percent lower risk of dying of heart disease than those who never took a sip.