You owe it to yourself to be as healthy as possible; and what better way than enjoying a nice cup of coffee?
 
Drinking a couple cups a day can cut your risk of Diabetes by 10% or more.   Decaf also helps, but not as much.  These results have come out of a 'meta analysis' where a number of studies were combined, and analyzed (study source: PubMed).

No one is yet sure how coffee does this.  It might be from the polyphenols it contains.  It is also possible that there other, related factors - perhaps people who drink coffee are more active, or have less time to eat sugary foods.  The benefits of coffee are higher for people who are not overweight.

Other dietary choices that may help reduce Diabetes include beans, Dark Leafy greens, Citrus, Berries, Sweet Potatoes (not white potatoes), and others.  In general they are foods that have a low glycemic index.  You can read more about this at Diabetes.org.

Are you in the mood for some coffee?  Then its time to get a great deal on beans!

Starbucks has a new program where you can use Twitter to give a gift of coffee.  After you sign up, you simply send a tweet to a friend and they get a $5 Starbucks gift card.

First you 'sync' your account at Starbucks to your Twitter account.   Then, to send the gift, you sent a tweet, with two handles in it: your friend, and "@tweetacoffee".   The format of your message is:

@tweetacoffee TO @recipient

As an added bonus, the first 100,000 people who signup, get a $5 credit for themselves too, after they send their first gift.  Starbucks does programs like this to increase their number of followers on a social network.

This service is one more example of how the online and offline worlds are interconnected. 

To signup, go here.

Millions of people drink coffee every morning. It is a daily ritual, and many (if not most) of them cannot imagine their morning without coffee.  But we don't drink it out of health reasons; we drink coffee because we enjoy it.  We enjoy the flavor, the ritual, and we like to get some help waking up.
 
Now it turns out those daily coffees might actually be good for us as well!
 
There are news reports out now about studies that show how healthy coffee is.  Coffee reduces your chance of breast cancer, prostate cancer, head & neck cancers, and endometrial cancer. 

One of the newest studies found that liver cancer can be reduced by up to 50% by drinking 3 cups of coffee a day.  This is an amazing statistic; liver cancer is one of the top 7 cancers in the world for cause of death.  Coffee consumption can also reduce your chance of Diabetes by up to 25%; and this might explain some of the anti-cancer benefits of coffee.

Some people believe that inhaling the fumes from a freshly made pot of coffee might also confer health benefits; but to our knowledge this has never been studied.

Overall, for some people, drinking coffee reduces the overall chance of death.

Of course, your own personal experiences might vary.  No study can say for sure how you personally will respond.  The studies mentioned typically involve 2 or 3 cups of coffee - there is no evidence that overdosing with more coffee will be healthy.  And everyone should pursue a healthy diet, good exercise, and deep sleep.   All we can do is have another cup of coffee, and hope for the best!

You can learn more at our site, CoffeeScience.com.