Coffee is the morning elixir of the masses. In addition to the benefits of feeling awake and refreshed, studies have discovered that for women, drinking coffee can assist with the reduction of body fat, is associated with increased fat burning in aerobic exercise, and improves exercise performance.
A study published in The Journal of Nutrition found that women aged 20 to 69 in the U.S. who drank two to three cups of coffee a day had 2.3 percent less total body fat than women who did not drink coffee and 2.8 percent had less trunk fat. While the men in the study aged 20 to 44 who drank two to three cups of coffee each day had 2.8 percent less total body fat and 3.4 percent less trunk fat than those women of the same age who did not drink coffee. Overall, the study found that the effect of consuming coffee was less obvious in men’s body fat….