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   The Health Benefits of Coffee   
      
   Drinking coffee has been linked to a reduced risk of all kinds of   
   ailments, including Parkinson's disease, melanoma, prostate cancer,   
   even suicide.   
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   All of us should be happy to know that whatever it took to secure that   
   favorite cup of Joe may actually have helped to keep us healthy. The   
   latest assessments of the health effects of coffee and caffeine, its   
   main active ingredient, are reassuring indeed. Their consumption has   
   been linked to a reduced risk of all kinds of ailments, including   
   Parkinson's disease, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, gallstones,   
   depression, suicide, cirrhosis, liver cancer, melanoma and prostate   
   cancer.   
      
   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. In 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 less likely to die early from all causes   
   than were people who shunned coffee. Perhaps most dramatic was a 50   
   percent reduction in the risk of suicide among both men and women who   
   were moderate coffee drinkers, perhaps by boosting production of brain   
   chemicals that have antidepressant effects.   
      
      
      
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