It turns drinking coffee reduces risk of depression

It turns drinking coffee reduces risk of depression

Hobbies sipping coffee was beneficial for mental health. Research shows women who like to drink coffee have a lower risk to suffer from depression than women who never drank coffee or just drink a cup of coffee a day.

Although it is premature to recommend coffee drinking habits in order to prevent depression, but research published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine that can at least lessen the guilt of coffee addicts.

"The results of this research can reduce the negative image of coffee consumption. Caffeine in high doses has been associated with symptoms of anxiety and other psychiatric illnesses that many experts suggest to reduce coffee," said a psychiatrist from Texas who was not involved in the study.

Approximately 80 percent of the caffeine in the world is consumed in the form of coffee. Caffeine itself is a stimulant of the nervous system is the most widely used. Research shows caffeine effect on heart health, inflammation and cancer. However, only a few researchers who are interested in knowing the effect of caffeine on mood.

"In the short term caffeine has a positive effect on mood, increase energy and make us instantly awake. Therefore interesting to know what the long-term effects," said study senior professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

In a study involving 51,000 women, average age 63 years, the researchers followed their health. At the beginning of the study, none of the respondents who reported suffering from depression or taking antidepressants.

The women who consumed four cups of coffee per day reduced the risk of developing depression 20 percent, while consuming two to three cups, the risk decreased 15 percent compared to drinking a cup of coffee every day.

"Caffeine has the effect of the release of several neurotransmitters, including dopamine and serotonin. Thing it certainly affects the mood regulation and depression," said a professor at Harvard Medical School.

Even so the actual long-term effects of caffeine is unknown. "If caffeine has antidepressant effects, we can take the contents of the most powerful effect in driving depression," he said.

So a little about coffee.

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