Coffee � Can it Help You to Keep Your Shapely Bod?

The First in a Series of Three Articles about how YOU can stay slim with the coffee diet and the effects of coffee on your body, both helpful and harmful.

by Toni Franchez, webmaster at http://www.StylishCoffees.com

Over the course of the last 30 years or so, there’s been a steadily rising interest in, and concern over, the effect of everyday staple foods on our health, coffee amongst the many. 

We’ve been told at times that just about everything is good for us – and that just about everything is bad for us! 

Sometimes the same health guru will praise and condemn the same staple food in different chapters of the same book!

What about coffee? 

Highly knowledgeable experts like Barry Sears and Jean Carper are “dead agin it”. 

Now, I listen to what these two say, because by and large what they say is sure to make me fitter. 

Jean Carper tells me how to stay youthful and energetic by getting the right nutrients, and Barry Sears tells me what to eat so I can super-charge my energy levels and stay slim and supple, with terrific skin tone.

I love cappuccino, but I was prepared to give it up because, let’s face it, how I look matters to me.

However, a bunch of nutrition experts and some triple blind studies at major universities, Harvard amongst them, say that drinking coffee keeps you slim, youthful, energetic and alert, plus you think better, especially under stress. 

So, who to believe?? 

The eggheads say that coffee helps everything from asthma to Alzheimer’s, coffee reduces your risk of heart attack, diabetes, obesity (the number one killer in today’s America) and some types of cancer.  Coffee aids memory, and emotional stability, and clarity of thought, it increases energy levels.   

Chinese studies strongly suggest that several daily cups of java can help to alleviate the distressing symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

The list of health benefits from coffee just goes on and on….

Now back in the days when I was at university myself, I studied Risk Management at the foremost European school for that discipline, and what they taught me was  –  for any course of action  –  you can’t consider the risks arising only, you must also consider the risks inherent in the status quo.

Or in other words – who’s crazy enough to worry that they might break a leg jumping out the window, when the room behind them is on fire?

Yes, too much coffee is unquestionably bad for you.  So is too much water. 

Yes, excessive caffeine can kill you.  So can crossing the street, even at a traffic lights point, even when the lights are in your favour.

And we all know what dieting too stenuously, or eating too much chocolate, can do to a girl’s figure and her skin tone!

The trick is to look at both sides of the staying fit issues, and so on our pages at Stylish Coffees we try to point you towards resources which will allow you to consider the coffee and health question in a sensible way, arm yourself with the facts, and make up your own mind. 

It’s your health, your body, your decision. 

So why should we try make up your mind for you? 

We’ve got more respect for your judgment than that.  We give you the straight gen! 

So what’s the skinny on coffee? 

If you want to find out, then just download our free eBook, Coffee Health Facts, (aka Keep in Shape and Drink Coffee Too!) available at http://www.stylishcoffees.com/about-us.html or come back and read Installment 2 next week.