Four cups of coffee a day can reduce women's risk of depression

Coffee is good for you: Women who drink four or more cups a day are less likely to be depressed

Coffee is good for you: four cups of coffee a day can reduce women's risk of depression

Many of us depend on a mug of freshly brewed coffee to perk us up in the mornings.

Many people wake up every morning with a cup of freshly brewed coffee.

But its mood-boosting effect could well be lasting far longer than we realise, claim scientists.

But according to scientists, the refreshing effect of coffee may last longer than we know.

They have discovered that women who drink four or more cups a day are a fifth less likely to become depressed.

They found that women who drank four or more cups of coffee a day were 1/5 less likely to be depressed than other women.

And those who drink between two or three reduce their risk by 15 per cent.

Drinking two or three drinks a day can also reduce risk by 15%.

Researchers at Harvard University compared the coffee intake and risk of depression amongst nearly 51000 women over ten years.

Researchers at Harvard University believe that coffee has an effect on depression in nearly 51000 women who have been followed for a decade.

They did not look at men-but other studies have found it has a similar effect.

Although they did not do a survey of men, other studies have shown that coffee has a similar effect on men.

The scientists, whose findings are published in the Journal of American Medicine Association, think that caffeine works like antidepressant pills by stopping the production of certain hormones such as serotonin.

In the report, published in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, scientists point out that caffeine can inhibit hormones such as serotonin as well as antidepressants.

They also say it improves our feelings of well-being and gives us more energy over long periods.

And it can also achieve the effect of making us feel happy and more energetic over a long period of time.

The researchers also asked the women how much tea they drank, chocolate bars they ate each day, their alcohol consumption and whether they did exercise.

The researchers also surveyed the number of women who drank tea, chocolate and alcohol every day, and recorded their exercise.

They found that coffee had the strongest influence reducing depression-but the decaf variety didn't work at all.

They found that coffee had the best antidepressant effect, but decaffeinated coffee did not.

Dr Michel Lucas, from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, said: `Our results support a possible protective effect of caffeine, mainly from coffee consumption, on risk of depression.

"our data suggest that caffeine, especially through coffee intake, may reduce the risk of depression," said Dr. Michel Lucas, Ph.D., from the Department of Public Health at Harvard University.

`Further investigations are needed to confirm this finding and to determine whether usual caffeinated coffee consumption may contribute to prevention or treatment of depression.`

"We need more research to confirm this finding before we can further assert that drinking coffee can prevent depression."

They think that in future coffee could be used as an antidepressant or as a means of preventing depression.

But they think coffee is likely to be used to prevent depression in the future.

Only last year a study in Finland discovered that men who drank more than four cups a day were also far less likely to become depressed.

Just last year, a Finnish study also found that men who drank more than four cups of coffee a day had a lower risk of depression.

It is already known that coffee can help stave off a range of illnesses including prostate cancer, gout and Alzheimer's and may even boost brain power.

We already know that coffee can prevent some diseases, such as prostate cancer, gout and Alzheimer's disease, and even stimulate brain activity.

But it isn't entirely beneficial-and you can have too much.

But coffee is not beneficial and harmless, and it is not always better to drink as much as possible.

Scientists have also shown that can raise the blood pressure and increase the heart rate.

Once scientists have found that coffee increases blood pressure and heart rhythm.

And pregnant women are advised to drink no more than two cups a day to reduce the likelihood of a miscarriage or their babies being underweight.

At the same time, pregnant women should not drink more than two cups of coffee a day to reduce the risk of miscarriage and fetal underweight.

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