Sipping coffee turns profitable pastime for mental health. Research shows women who consumed coffee had a hobby of lower risk to suffer from depression than women who never consume coffee or just a cup of coffee a day are consuming.
Although it is too early to recommend eating habits for the sake of preventing depression coffee, but the results of research published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine that will at least mitigate the guilt of the coffee addicts.
"The results of this research could reduce the negative image of coffee consumption. Caffeine in high doses as long as it is associated with symptoms of anxiety and other psychiatric illnesses so many experts recommend to cut down on coffee, "said Dr. Christopher Cargile, psychiatric experts from Texas who was not involved in this research.
About 80 percent of the world's consumed caffeine in the form of coffee. Caffeine is a stimulant of the nervous system itself is the most widely used. Study shows caffeine effect on cardiovascular health, inflammation and cancer. But only a few researchers who are interested in knowing the effects of caffeine on mood.
"In the short term caffeine has a positive effect on mood, increasing energy and make us straight up. Because it is interesting to know what effect it has in the long run, "said senior researcher Dr. Alberto Ascherio, Professor of epidemiology and nutrition from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
In research involving 51.000 females age average of 63 years, researchers follow their health. At the beginning of the study, none of the respondents reported to suffer from depression or taking any antidepressants.
The women who consumed four cups of coffee every day risk to suffer from depression reduced 20 percent, while that of eating two to three cups, the risk is decreased 15 percent compared to drink a cup of coffee every day.
"Caffeine has the effect of the release of several neurotransmitters, including dopamine and serotonin. It was certainly influential in setting the mood and depression, "said Ascherio who also became a lecturer at Harvard Medical School.
Despite the long-term effects of caffeine is actually unknown. "If caffeine has an antidepressant effect, we can take the content of the most powerful effect is in the drive out of the depression," he said.
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