Does Coffee Help You Lose Weight?
When I was in college and first starting to drink coffee, the professor who taught us that coffee cleans your system, sent us in a box with some powdered coffee in a brown paper bag to our dorm room. This was my first exposure to the famous "I'm going to have a cup of coffee" or "I'm going to have a tea" or "I'm going to have a cigarette" statement. I'm not sure how many times I've repeated those phrases since then and can honestly say that it has become a bit of an urban legend. Coffee is certainly not evil or anything, it's just something that you need to give up if you want to lose weight. Let me explain why. There are several types of antioxidants in coffee, including polyphenols and decaffeinated arginine. Both of these are considered to be good antioxidants. The polyphenols have been associated with preventing cancer while the decaffeinated arginine has been shown to reduce the risk of developing diabetes. So does thi
