What Are the Health Benefits of Coffee? http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1694/what-are-the-health-benefits-of-coffee/ All of us like a good cup of coffee and most of us have some idea that coffee is good for our health. Here, are more than a dozen health benefits of coffee, backed by scientific evidence. Protection against Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Dementia Researchers have found that starting at just one cup of coffee a day your daily Java reduces the risk of Parkinson’s disease. A cup a day reduces your risk by 15% and by the time you reach 5 cups a day that risk reduction goes to 32%. When researchers took smoking, drinking alcohol and other factors into consideration the risk reduction for Parkinson’s was a much as 60%. Not only does coffee make you more alert as you drink it, coffee helps prevent memory loss over the long term. It does this by its protective effect against Alzheimer’s. The risk of getting this disease can be cut by two thirds if you drink three to five cups a day starting in midlife. Cancer Risk Reduced by Coffee Consumption We have written previously about coffee reducing your risk of colon cancer. Currently available evidence is that your risk goes down by a fourth with four to six cups a day and down by 15% with one to four cups a day. The risk of women getting endometrial cancer goes down by 20% with a cup a day and by about 7% more with each additional cup. Live cancer risk is reduced by almost half with 2 cups of coffee a day and your risk of brain tumor goes down by 40% with five or more cups a day. Living Longer More than a year ago we wrote about a longer life with coffee. The evidence shows that the sum total of health benefits of coffee reduce your risk of dying (compared to non-coffee drinkers) by as much as 15% with 5 cups a day and by 6% with a cup a day. None of us live forever but reducing your risk of dying in the next 5 or 10 years is a good thing.