Coffee is one of the most popular drinks on the planet and many of us wake each day to go and drink a cup, or two to get us going on our day.
Coffee is always one of the things that many people can see as a bad thing and is often the first thing they cut out when going on a supposed health kick.
Interestingly coffee is often cut out long before alcohol is and this often tells us where peoples mind sets are engrained. Regardless, there have been numerous studies to show the benefits of coffer and its use in the prevention of many disease states and even certain cancers.
The good news is that a newly published studies show that it may reduce the risk of liver disease by 70 percent. This is not the first time coffee has been shown to have a beneficial effect on the liver. Recent research has shown that a few cups of coffee per day can actually prolong your life.
Interesting Facts About Coffee
It is interesting that in Chinese medicine, they believe that bitter herbs and bitter tasting foods can actually help the liver. This has been known for thousands of years. Guess what property coffee’s taste is? Yep, you guessed it…. Bitter. So the Chinese medicine doctors of old knew many things long before modern research.
Liver disease is a silent killer and many people do not know they have it until it is too late. Liver disease kills millions of people each year around the world and much of the problems gets back to alcohol and a diet high in refined sugars, refined grains and highly processed refined carbohydrates. Too many refined carbohydrates and sugars cause the body to store fats and stop the burning of fats and then we store those fats and people end up with heart disease and fatty liver disease.
The good thing is that if you cut out all those bad refined carbohydrates, eat a healthier diet, cut back the alcohol, do some daily exercise and have a couple of cups of coffee per day, then your risk of liver disease, and heart disease, drops dramatically. There could be a reduction of up to 70% for those that adopt these practices.
Next time you think about ditching the coffee for your next health kick, you may want to stop and think about that just a little bit more. Coffee is known to have many vitamins, minerals and amino acids. It also has other properties as well. But this is from good coffee bean, not instant coffee, which is full of preservatives, dyes and colours.
If you truly want to go on a health kick, or detox, ditch the bad carbohydrates, the sugars and the alcohol and keep the coffee instead. Your liver will thank you for it.
Regards
Andrew Orr
Women’s and Men’s Health Advocate
-No Stone Left Unturned
References
1.Kennedy OJ, Roderick P, Buchanan R, Fallowfield JA, Hayes PC, Parkes J. Systematic review with meta-analysis: coffee consumption and the risk of cirrhosis. Aliment Pharmacol Ther2016;359:562–74. doi:10.1111/apt.13523 pmid:26806124.
2.BMJ 2017; 359 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j5024 (Published 22 November 2017)Cite this as: BMJ 2017;359:j5024