How healthy is coffee?
“Coffee dehydrates. Coffee is bad for the stomach. Coffee is bad for the heart…” Really?
How healthy is coffee?
“Coffee dehydrates. Coffee is bad for the stomach. Coffee is bad for the heart…” Really?
Scientists from the Queen Mary University of London and the Budapest Semmelweis University published a study that shows the opposite: Coffee is quite healthy. 3-4 cups per day reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, liver cancer, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes. **
In another study the Swedish colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm were able to show that women who consumed more than 5 cups of coffee a day were less likely to develop breast cancer. The result was confirmed by the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.*** Wow.
But coffee can do even more.
The effects of the antioxidants and the caffeine in coffee are impressive enough. Yet, another study worth mentioning is one published by Harvard in 2011, which showed that coffee can also help against depression. Which, of course, is more than obvious to us. After all, just the multi-sensory experience of grinding coffee, brewing, and finally drinking it boosts your mood. But apparently, caffeine also interferes with brain chemistry – Explaining that further though, would mean a bit too much medicine and chemistry.***
The wonderful part is: Coffee can do a whole lot more. For one thing, it improves the quality and health of the soil in which it is planted when it is grown organically or biodynamically – as it is the case with our coffee. How that works? Here on our blog, you find some articles on that topic.
On the other hand, our coffee helps to improve the living conditions of the farmers. By paying fair prices, by supporting infrastructure investments, schools, and by treating each other as equals. Of course, we also have plenty of reading material on these topics. Or you can simply check out our film “Have a look behind the scenes?” about our coffee in Papua New Guinea.
Conclusion: Really good coffee is healthy. And helps. And puts you in a good mood. Especially when it is roasted as gently and carefully as a Mount Hagen. Because then it can fully develop its opulent aromas and acquire fine, refined acids that don’t upset the stomach at all – in fact, quite the contrary.
If you need more tips on coffee preparation or want to learn how to avoid a mistake or two, check out the “Why…” section on our blog. Some mistakes are easy to avoid.
Sources:
*Statista
**www.academic.oup.com/eurjpc/article/29/6/982/6512055
*** www.eatsmarter.de/gesund-leben/gesundheit/kaffee-gesund and www.breast-cancer-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/bcr2879
