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Let’s Settle It: Coffee is Fine for Your Health
Decades old debate over the health risks and benefits of coffee led me to one conclusion.
Every few months I find articles on coffee crossing my feeds. Reliably, these articles will fall on one side of the argument over whether coffee is good or bad for your health. For millions of people who are conscious or concerned about their health, coffee has become an obvious target of attention. Am I drinking too much? Will coffee negatively affect my health?
Let’s settle it.
Coffee is among the top 3 most popular beverages worldwide. Coffee is so ubiquitous that it is forever linked with one activity every human share — waking up!
Picked, dried, cured, roasted, ground, and brewed, coffee’s rich flavor and aroma come packed with an energizing dose of caffeine.
Caffeine acts on several systems in the body, primarily raising mental alertness and increasing stimulatory signals to the heart and digestion system. Much of the debate over coffee’s effect on health centers on caffeine. More on that later.
