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Advantages of taking one cup of coffee a day

Coffee is one of the beverage which is drunk over the world everyday. But many do not know that it holds some advantages.The benefits of the advantages of coffee are:First,drinking one or two cups of coffee a day reduce diabetes disease risk.People who drunk at least one cup every morning for 18 years had been found to reduce diabetes risk. The coffee reduce the risk by reducing or controlling the sugar level and boosting of insulin in the blood system.Second,coffee contain antioxidents which reduce the risk of skin cancer.The antioxidents prevent skin cancer from multiple and deproved the cancer cells of oxygen thereby stopping the cancer cells from growing.Third,taking one to three cup a day for a long time cure headaches and lessen asthma symptoms.Coffee does this by making use of substance called caffeine in coffee.Fourth,coffee in improve concerntration by increasing alertness.Again the caffei...

The reason why you eat

The food you eat make you what you are.Most people do not know that the way they are build up comes from the food they eat.This means that the type of food you eat shape your body.Your body require balance diet to resist disease,build up new tissues and repair old tissues.The basic component of food you need include starch,protein,fat,vitamin,minerials and water.Starch comes from carbonhydrate food like yam,potatoes,plantain and corn.Protein comes from both animal and plant.Animal protein include fish,beef,mutton and cheese.While plant protien comes from beans,peas and milk from soyabeans.Fat can be obtained from butter,nut,corn and palm oil.Then vitamin comes from vegetables,fruit,grain and eggs.Mineral are calcium,magnesium,potassium,zinc,phosphorus and selenium.This minerals can be obtained from milk, fresh vegetables and eggs.The minerals are mainly use in the body to formulate bones,teeth and blood.Water is simplely made up of hydrogen and oxygen.