Are you a keen athlete? Then you’ve got a great reason to drink coffee

We’ve already told you that coffee is good for you. Coffee has plenty of mental and physical benefits. The University of Georgia has now added even more evidence to back that up. Research shows that a cup of coffee has a positive effect on your sporting performance. Simon Higgins studied 600 scientific articles on the effects of coffee. He focused on the links between caffeine consumption and athletes’ endurance. In nine follow-up experiments, in which participants had to cycle or run, he looked at the endurance levels of the test subjects. Higgins found that 3 to 7 milligrams of caffeine per kilo of body weight increased the participants’ endurance by no less than 24%. A cup of coffee contains roughly 75 to 150 milligrams of caffeine. According to Higgins, more research should be carried out into coffee as a source of caffeine. He says the effects of caffeine from coffee can be just as high as the effects of pure caffeine, while the general assumption is that they’re lower. Via DeMorgen and Uga.edu