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Good News: Coffee is Good for You!

As you may have heard the results of a recent study suggest that drinking coffee can actually help you live longer. According to the results of this study regular coffee drinkers are less likely to die from the following causes: heart disease, lung disease, strokes, injuries, accidents, diabetes and infections. As a coffee addict myself, this is the best news I’ve heard in quite some time.

coffee beans Good News: Coffee is Good for You!

This is not the first study to suggest there are actually many positives to drinking coffee regularly. Among the positives found in other studies:

(1) Decreased chance of developing type 2 diabetes. It’s believed that the cause of this decrease is because of the antioxidants in coffee rather than the caffeine.

(2) Lower risk of stroke.

(3) Lower risk of heart disease.

(4) Lower risk of Parkinson’s disease (due to caffeine.)

(5) Significantly lower risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.

(6) Decreased risk of cancer, particularly liver cancer.

Coffee Weight Loss

I’ve long thought that drinking coffee every morning helps with weight loss as the caffeine boosts the metabolism while also acting as an appetite suppressant. Of course any weight loss positives associated with coffee drinking are lost if you aren’t drinking real coffee (not decaf) but instead one of those 500 calorie desert “coffee” drinks from Starbucks. Forget about that stuff, it’s just an excuse to drink an extra dessert.

Drink real coffee!. Once you get a taste for it you won’t want to have any part of that super sweet stuff anymore. To a real coffee drinker those sugary Frappuccino type drinks are like kool-aid to a wine lover.

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Atkins in bankruptsy


I am not a big fan of the Atkins diet although I do like the idea of increasing ones protein in your diet. I read a series of news articles today that talked about how the skeptics were wrong and the Atkins diet is a fad. I do not believe that this could possibly be true for several reasons. First, I hear as many people talking about Atkins and starting Atkins diets as I did 5 years ago. Secondly, a fad, especially with diets is not going to last more than one year tops and the Atkins diet has been around for twenty years at least. Thirdly I do not like the idea of Atkins being called a fad because most studies that I have seen show that people on the Atkins diet lose at least as much weight in the first six months as on any other diet…the problem seems to be that people have trouble staying on the diet as it seems to be artificial in what you eat, how long can you eat steak and fish and no carbs and feel to great.

The thing that the media loves is a company that is in the news going into bankruptcy but what we should really be looking at is what we can learn from the Atkins diet and looking to science as to why it seems to work at least in the short term. The reason that I am against the diet is that by it’s very nature it will be hard on your kidneys and over the long term even if the risk of heart disease is not increased there can not be any real health benefits besides some weight loss. I believe that a weight reduction diet should not just drop fat but make a person healthier as well that is why I always try to stress the importance of exercise.

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