Specific Purposes:
-To rebuild coffee’s reputation by informing the audience the benefits of drinking coffee, the essential element that makes coffee a healthy beverage, and the suggested consumption dosage to maintain optimal body condition.
Introduction:
Hook:
According to Statistics Canada, coffee is ranked as the second most frequently consumed beverage in Canada, and the first is water. (Statistics Canada)
There is a reason for more than 12 Tim Horton’s around Campus, in addition to plenty of other well-known coffee brands.
Obviously, we love coffee. But how much do we know about coffee?
Most people treat coffee as a guilty pleasure since it has a long history of being criticized for many health problems such as high blood pressure, anxiety, and some uncertain effects. Somehow, coffee’s flaw has been over-exaggerated while its benefits were usually overlooked.
So today, I would like to clarify the benefits of drinking coffee, explain the essential element that makes coffee a healthy beverage, and suggest the consumption dosage for optimal body condition.
Let’s start by introducing some unknown merits about coffee other than helping you power through the exam period.
Body
I. Coffee is beneficial for your brain and your body.
A. Research in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that coffee boost the levels of granulocyte colony stimulating factor, a factor that fight off Alzheimer’s disease by helping the brain to form brain cell connections and creating new brain neurons. (Chan)
Gary Arendash, a researcher at the Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center(Aubrey), drank “five to six cups of coffee a day.” He and his colleagues found that by adding caffeine to mice’s diet, those mice end up with 50% less abnormal amyloid proteins, which is the fatal cause for developing Alzheimer’s
B. Coffee is also beneficial in preventing type II diabetes. Researchers at the Harvard