My grandmother used to live with us when I was young. She constantly used to scold my mother for drinking too much coffee threatening it would kill her liver. My mother's typical reply was that she only had a cup at a time with a straight face.
Her response always frustrated my grandmother. She would shake her head, frown, and then point to my mother's cup saying, "That is not a cup." She would point to her small cup. "This is a cup."
My mother would shrug. "So my cup happens to be a little bigger, " she would answer back.
Grandma would roll her eyes and then eventually try to hide my mother's soup bowl-sized mug before the next meal. This became a ritual when I was growing up because my grandmother was convinced coffee would damage livers!
I do not know if too much coffee or caffeine will damage livers. In fact, one day we hear coffee and caffeine are bad for you. Other times, we hear that drinking coffee and tea with caffeine is good for us. I just know that I love my coffee and would have a hard time giving it up. Although, I have been cutting back and drinking more water with meals instead.
According to a new study, however, women should continue to enjoy our coffee with at least three or four cups because it may help prevent endometrial cancer. Those women that did drink more than four cups of coffee cut their chances of developing endometrial cancer in half.
This study also found if you had only two to three cups of coffee a day, you still reduced your chance of having a stroke by 19%.
Another thing these researchers found was that drinking two to three cups of coffee before exercising helped relieve muscle pain that followed their workout.
