Coffee is about more than just sitting at some trendy café with a friend passing the time of the day. Coffee is about the personal and deeply loving relationship that so many of us share with this fragrant, invigorating, refreshing and delicious beverage. Other than the fact that coffee lovers quite simply love their brew, there are many other reasons to drink coffee:
Coffee can make you more alert and improve energy levels
Smart Choice
The caffeine in the coffee doesn’t just wake you up; it stimulates you and improves several brain functions. It can make you more alert and improves cognitive functions.
Coffee makes you live longer
Healthy, so live longer
Coffee is an excellent source of antioxidants which are known to combat free radicals responsible for ageing and damaging the body’s molecules. Coffee has several compounds known to have protective properties that help the body resist heart disease, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers.
Coffee makes you happy
The smell of a fresh cup in the morning, the smell of those beans as the perfume salesman thrusts a jar of coffee beans under your nose, the smell emanating from a Starbucks… I dare you not to feel better after having inhaled that magical aroma!
Proven by research
In fact, a freshly made cup of coffee is one of the things that make people happiest, right alongside laughing so hard it hurts and popping bubble wrap! I always say, if one could bottle that smell of freshly made coffee, they’d make a fortune!
Coffee improves productivity and makes you less susceptible to depression
It’s not just that those of us who drag themselves out of bed, bad-tempered and growling, are transformed into beams of light, the minute a strong cup of coffee goes down the gullet.
Researchers also found that coffee is mood enhancing and that it lowers risk of depression and suicide.
Coffee improves athletic performance
Just saying
And it’s not a banned substance! Scientists found that coffee improves performance in athletic activities such as cycling, running etc. Caffeine increases the amount of fatty acids in the blood stream, helps burn fat for fuel and improves performance especially in activities that require more endurance.
Coffee has many other benefits
See? You can’t go wrong with coffee!
