This research shows that regular coffee consumptions slightly lowers
diabetes risk, but the researchers only seem capable of guessing at one
ingredient as the cause: caffeine. The fact is, the coffee bean is a
tropical plant and is loaded with a vast spectrum of phytonutrients that
probably offers a protective effect to the pancreas. Caffeine very
likely has nothing to do with it.
What the study doesn't say, by the
way, is that coffee is one of the most expensive ways to get
health-enhancing nutrients into your body. Typically coffee is mostly
water. A much better way to improve your health using tropical plants is
to take supplements of Amazon herbs, which can be purchased from a
variety of online sources. Another way is to eat nutrient-dense
superfoods such as chlorella, spirulina or wheat grass juice. Ounce per
ounce, these superfoods are no more expensive than coffee, and yet they
pack in probably tens of thousands of times as much nutrition at the
molecular level.
Finally, the study doesn't mention that coffee has
a variety of highly destructive effects on the human body, too, such as
leeching minerals from bones due to coffee's high acidity. Nor does it
mention that many people use extremely unhealthy creamers in their
coffee: a product often made with hydrogenated oils that are well known
to contribute to heart disease. The bottom line? Coffee in the real
world, not the lab, is more like a junk food than a health food, and its
addiction properties make it a poor choice for people seeking balance
and health. And the way most people drink it, coffee probably promotes
heart disease.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning journalist with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, and he has published numerous courses on preparedness and survival, including financial preparedness, emergency food supplies, urban survival and tactical self-defense. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In 2010, Adams launched TV.NaturalNews.com, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and enjoys outdoor activities, nature photography, Pilates and martial arts training. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds.
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