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Have a Cup of Coffee
Have a Cup of Coffee
If coffee is already your go-to pick-me-up, file this under "things I could have told the scientists." But new research finds that pick-me-up capability may actually have clinical implications: women who drink four or more cups a day are less likely to be depressed, according to the study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
And it's not the immediate caffeine jolt that these researchers looked at — they measured women's coffee consumption dating back 14 years, then followed the same women for another 10 years to see the long-term effects of a java habit. Here's to your morning perk!
By Natalie Gingerich Mackenzie. Published February 21, 2012. Natalie Gingerich Mackenzie is a health and fitness writer in Syracuse, NY and author of the newly-released book Tone Every Inch (Rodale, 2012).
Reviewed by Joe Sclafani, MD on April 13, 2015.
