Coffee
If you love reading about health and fitness, chances are high that in all of your readings, you’ve come across articles that talked about coffee – the good as well as the bad that it can do to the body. So far, nothing definite or final is actually written about coffee. Just like most things in life, facts are presented but it’s still up to the reader to really decide what he wants to do with what he has read.
So here’s more about coffee; and it’s up to you to weight whether you’re for or against coffee.
Coffee Has Benefits
According to adjunct assistant professor of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health Rob van Dam, PhD, there’s no reason to stop drinking coffee because coffee also has many benefits, including the following:
Lower a Person’s Risk of Becoming Diabetic.
Coffee lowers a person’s risk of becoming diabetic, this is according to a review of a research reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The research stated that people who drank 3 or 4 cups of coffee a day had a lower risk of developing diabetes by 25%. There are also other researches which suggests that decaf coffee may also cut the risk of diabetes primarily because of the antioxidant called chlorogenic acid which is present in coffee. People who drink coffee are also less likely to develop cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer, according to studies.
Reduce a Person’s Risk of Parkinson’s Disease
Caffeine in coffee is also believed to reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease and even Alzheimer’s. For many, a cup of coffee, or even more, is better than getting Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s.
There are, however, experts who say the opposite about coffee. For example, James D. Lane, PhD, director of the Duke University Medical Center Psychophysiology Laboratory says that the risks outweight the benefits in terms of coffee consumption. He’s also saying that the researches on the benefits of coffee are still weak and they need to be validated.
For example, according to Dr. Lane, drinking coffee actually worsens health conditions of people with diabetes and hypertension problems.
Coffee, especially when the consumption is more than 4 cups per day, can worsen stress. Numerous studies have shown that adrenaline responses to stress are higher when a person has had caffeine than if he did not have any. Caffeine in coffee makes the central nervous system very reactive, making the person who has consumed too much coffee more tense, more anxious, and jitterier. It also causes sleep problems, and worst, insomnia.
Insomnia
How about you? What are your thoughts on the facts presented here? You know your body better; you love yourself, so you decide what’s best for you!
