New Year’s resolution: Drink more coffee

Paul Smithson

03/01/2012 12:10:03

A columnist has described how her New Year’s resolution for 2012 may be to drink more coffee.

In a piece for The Sun Chronicle, Melissa Introne explained that she has never got into the taste of the drink and has instead drunk fizz drinks to get her caffeine fix.

She noted that her mother is a huge fan of coffee and used to tell her that she would eventually cave in, using a coffee machine to give her the energy to cope with motherhood, as well as her work.

Ms Introne accepted that the idea of going “for a coffee” is more appealing than meeting for a coke and she is beginning to wonder if she is missing out by not drinking coffee.

She added: “I drink way more soda than I should because my mother was right in one respect - all those years, kids and activities means I need the caffeine. I’m left with the sugary carbonated version rather than the coffee bean concoction.”

Writing for The Province, doctors Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz gave consumers another reason to tuck into a mug of coffee by pointing out that the drink has been linked to lower levels of several different forms of cancer over the course of 2011.

They listed endometrial, prostate, skin and breast cancer as some of the illnesses that coffee may be able to help prevent, while also highlighting how it can make a person feel more alert.