Chances are that when you think of coffee, you don’t think “healthy.” But it turns out that drinking coffee can do more than just perk you up in the morning. Coffee is one of the richest sources of healthful antioxidants in the average person's diet. It can help ward off a variety of diseases and conditions. Here are some of the ways in which coffee can help keep you healthy.
For one thing, coffee can lower your risk of Type 2 diabetes. A series of studies has shown that habitually drinking coffee leads to a substantially lower risk of the disease. It is not known exactly how, but one reason could be the high number of antioxidants that coffee contains, which aid in controlling the cell damage that can lead to the development of Type 2 diabetes.
A recent study also found that drinking coffee is linked to a reduced risk of prostate cancer by up to 60 percent, depending on the amount of coffee consumed. Conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health, researchers tracked nearly 48,000 men and found that the more coffee they drank, the less likely they were to develop prostate cancer. This finding was true for both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee. The researchers say it’s possible that the antioxidants in coffee help with insulin and glucose metabolism, and may aid in regulating sex hormone levels, which play a role in prostate cancer.
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