{"id":11457,"date":"2021-06-14T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11457"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:55:59","slug":"yea-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/14\/yea-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Yea! Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2021\/06\/14\/the-health-benefits-of-coffee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from NYT via DNYUZ<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Health Benefits of Coffee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-Health-Benefits-of-Coffee-750x375.jpg\" alt=\"The Health Benefits of Coffee\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans sure love their coffee. Even last spring when the pandemic shut down New York, nearly every neighborhood shop that sold takeout coffee managed to stay open, and I was amazed at how many people ventured forth to start their stay-at-home days with a favorite store-made brew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One elderly friend who prepandemic had traveled from Brooklyn to Manhattan by subway to buy her preferred blend of ground coffee arranged to have it delivered. \u201cWell worth the added cost,\u201d she told me. I use machine-brewed coffee from pods, and last summer when it seemed reasonably safe for me to shop I stocked up on a year\u2019s supply of the blends I like. (Happily, the pods are now recyclable.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of us should be happy to know that whatever it took to secure that favorite cup of Joe may actually have&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/nutritionsource\/food-features\/coffee\/#:~:text=Rich%20in&amp;text=One%208%2Dounce%20cup%20of,the%20Dietary%20Guidelines%20for%20Americans\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped to keep us healthy<\/a>. The&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1056\/NEJMra1816604\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest assessments of the health effects of coffee<\/a>&nbsp;and caffeine, its main active ingredient, are reassuring indeed. Their consumption has been linked to a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/359\/bmj.j5024\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reduced risk of all kinds of ailments<\/a>, including Parkinson\u2019s disease, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, gallstones, depression, suicide, cirrhosis, liver cancer, melanoma and prostate cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, in numerous studies conducted throughout the world, consuming four or five eight-ounce cups of coffee (or about 400 milligrams of caffeine) a day has been associated with reduced death rates<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0In a study of more than 200,000 participants followed for up to 30 years, those who drank three to five cups of coffee a day, with or without caffeine, were 15 percent\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/full\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.017341\">less likely to die early<\/a>\u00a0from all causes than were people who shunned coffee. Perhaps most dramatic was a 50 percent\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/news\/features\/drinking-coffee-may-reduce-risk-of-suicide-in-adults\/\">reduction in the risk of suicide<\/a>\u00a0among both men and women who were moderate coffee drinkers, perhaps by boosting production of brain chemicals that have antidepressant effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2021\/06\/14\/the-health-benefits-of-coffee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at DNYUZ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NYT via DNYUZ The Health Benefits of Coffee Americans sure love their coffee. Even last spring when the pandemic shut down New York, nearly every neighborhood shop that sold takeout coffee managed to stay open, and I was amazed at how many people ventured forth to start their stay-at-home days with a favorite store-made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}