Coffee Benefits For Your Health

Coffee Benefits For Your Health

It’s good for your metabolism and it helps fight depression. In order to reap these benefits, you have to skip the creamer and the sugar and take it black.

I, for one, am a huge fan of coffee. Sometimes it gets a bad rap, but it actually has several benefits. It helps lower your risk of cancer and diseases, such as diabetes, Parkinson’s, and heart disease.

Coffee benefits for your health

Coffee benefits for your health

The caffeine in your daily cup may be doing more than wake you up. A study showed that those with higher caffeine consumption had improved test scores on mental function and better memory recall.

Previously, studies have suggested that regular coffee consumption decreases oxidative damage in peripheral white blood cells.

T. Bakuradze, from the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany), and colleagues investigated the consumption of a dark-roast coffee blend on the level of spontaneous DNA strand breaks.

The researchers enrolled 84 healthy men to consume daily for 4 weeks either 750 ml of fresh coffee brew or 750 ml of water, subsequent to a run-in washout phase of 4 weeks. The study coffee was a blend providing high amounts of both caffeoylquinic acids (10.18 ± 0.33 mg/g) and the roast product N-methyl pyridinium (1.10 ± 0.05 mg/g).

Before and after the coffee/water consumption phase, the researchers conducted assays to assess for spontaneous DNA strand breaks.  Whereas at the study’s start, both groups exhibited a similar level of spontaneous DNA strand breaks – in the intervention phase, spontaneous DNA strand breaks slightly increased in the control (water only) group whereas they significantly decreased in the coffee group, leading to a 27 % difference.

Observing that: “The consumption of the study coffee substantially lowered the level of spontaneous DNA strand breaks in [white blood cells,” the study authors write: “We conclude that regular coffee consumption contributes to DNA integrity.”