Coffee is good for you!

I know this isn't exactly sleeve gastrectomy related, but if you've been reading for a while you know I'm coffee obsessed. I used to like coffee, but since my vsg I LOVE coffee. And now I have a reason to say it's good for me, a major medical journal says so. What more could a girl want?

Somehow I missed the article when it was published back in June, but I came across it today. I look around the net for weight loss and women's health news quiet frequently. Today I saw information on an article from Annals of Internal Medicine. Here's the interesting part...

Women consuming two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25 percent lower risk of death from heart disease during the follow-up period (which lasted from 1980 to 2004 and involved 84,214 women) as compared with non-consumers, and an 18 percent lower risk of death caused by something other than cancer or heart disease as compared with non-consumers during follow-up. For men, this level of consumption was associated with neither a higher nor a lower risk of death during the follow-up period (which lasted from 1986 to 2004 and involved 41,736 men).

Cool, huh? If you want to read the article, click here.