Health Benefits of Coffee
Like most of you, I grew up in a household full of coffee drinkers. It was mostly black, cheap, and smelly. As a kid into health, I didn't really get the addiction to coffee (was it the caffeine?).
Is coffee more than "nature's energy drink?" Is coffee a panacea for many of life's perils (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, to name just a few)?
Fast forward 30 or 40 years 🙂 and here I sit contemplating the health benefits of coffee. Yes, I like the pick-me-up of caffeine. But there's more to coffee than just caffeine. There are powerful anti-oxidants and other goodies inside that may actually promote preventive measures like reducing the risk of cancer, heart attacks, and type 2 diabetes.
I'm certainly no Starbucks guy (though I will, on occasion, buy their banana bread)–I call them "5 Bucks" because you can't buy anything in there for less than $5. And what they sell is not coffee. It's sugar and fat-laden crap with coffee is the delivery mechanism. Kinda like french fries at McDonalds ("You want fries with your salt?").
No, I'm talking good old fashioned black coffee.
Because I'm no coffee expert, I'm looking to you guys for some guidance: Are there any good-tasting coffees on the marketplace that offer all of the good health effects of standard black coffee? How do you flavor your coffee so that you're not ingesting mega calories with each cup? Where do you buy it?
Just looking for some guidance from the coffee connoisseurs out there.
Here's the article I read that prompted this post — Health Benefits of Coffee by WebMD.
By the way, I'm currently using Prograde Metabolism for some of the health benefits of coffee. However, I actually want to enjoy a beverage (that isn't loaded with sugar and fat.
