If you are like me and believe that coffee is one of the essentials of life, you will be delighted to see the following facts.

• Test subjects dosed with the amount found in a cup of coffee come out ahead on problem-solving tasks.
• By triggering the release of adrenaline to help muscles work harder and longer, caffeine so clearly enhances athletic performance that until 2004 it was considered a controlled substance by the International Olympic Committee.
• The latest findings on coffee suggest that it even staves off disease. Caffeine reduces the risk of Parkinson’s disease, for example, by blocking receptors for adenosine, a neurotransmitter that plays a role in motor function. It is now being tested as a Parkinson’s treatment. Caffeine also heads off migraines by contracting blood vessels in the brain.
• Coffee, like blueberries and broccoli, contains potent antioxidants. It appears to reduce the risk of colon cancer, gallstones, and liver cancer, among other illnesses.In 2005, Harvard researchers found that drinking six cups of coffee or more daily cut the risk of getting type 2 diabetes by half in men and 30 percent in women.
• One study of 80,000 women showed that those who drank more than two or three cups of coffee daily reduced their risk of suicide over 10 years by a third.

Source:  Caffeine Facts