I have a friend who constantly "jumps" pressure. When it rises, a friend blames coffee, but without coffee, she can not live a day. He says that coffee is her antidepressant. "Do you know for sure that the pressure rises from the coffee?" - I ask her. "That's right," she replies. "It all depends on the number of cups."
Let's see if this is really so
Coffee is consumed by everyone, or almost everyone, and almost everyone assures that coffee is harmful to the heart and hypertensives, but doctors can neither disprove nor confirm this myth. There are doctors who agree that coffee is harmful at increased pressure, and there are those who claim the opposite and warns that just drinking coffee should be smart - no more than two cups a day.
In Boston, the USA, doctors monitored 85,747 women for several years, and only 712 of them became hypertensive, and these women drank about 6 cups of coffee every day. But the most interesting is that among those who fell ill were those who did not use coffee at all.
But the Scottish doctors examined not only women, but also men and concluded that the coffeemen had cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension, almost absent. But they drank 2-3 cups of coffee a day, so in everything you need to know the measure, and not get your malaise on coffee.
Coffee increases cholesterol and has a diuretic effect
This nonsense, apparently, was invented by sausage manufacturers, because cholesterol in the products of plant origin is not present at all, so that coffee can not raise the level of cholesterol in any way.
As for the diuretic effect of coffee, too, it is more a myth than the truth. Since coffee is a drink, then, like any drink, it is excreted by the kidneys and output as much as was drunk, but no more. This is the opinion of most scientists. But some researchers still write that coffee removes calcium from the body, since it has a diuretic effect, but there is no evidence for this theory.
Coffee is harmful for pregnant and lactating women
With this fact, I, perhaps, agree, as she herself noticed that my son began to sleep worse when he was breastfed, and I was very fond of coffee in my youth. As soon as I stopped drinking this drink, the child stopped worrying. If you still want to drink a cup of coffee, then you should drink it with milk, which neutralizes the effect of caffeine.
It is not recommended to drink pregnant women because coffee slows down the absorption of calcium in the body, which is very important for a woman during pregnancy, so you should not drink coffee during pregnancy. And research has shown that caffeine reduces the weight of a child.
How coffee affects a person's well-being
Some coffee drinkers drink from 10 to 15 cups a day, and then complain of nervousness, hallucinations, irritability, blame for all coffee. Of course, this is a consequence, and the reason is that in everything you need to know the measure.
There are those who start the day with coffee, but not just with coffee, but alternating a sip of coffee with a cigarette. Is it harmful? Certainly! Caffeine and nicotine together are a time bomb, the result of which are strokes, heart attacks, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, nervous diseases.
But romantic nature does not hear anyone and continue to drink coffee and smoke a cigarette not only on an empty stomach, but also during the day, because very soon it is getting used to such a tandem. By the way, when combining nicotine and caffeine in the human body, cholesterol also rises. This was proved by Scandinavian scientists. The opinion of the Scandinavians was supported by Greek scientists who say that the use of caffeine and nicotine is several times more dangerous than using each of them separately.
Coffee causes dependence
Some of my friends seriously argue that they can not live without coffee and a day and put into evidence a serious word, which they now call such people: a coffee man. Sounds almost like a drug addict.
But this is a myth in which self-willed people convince themselves. Yes, you quickly get used to coffee, but you also lose your habit quickly. Serotonin, or the hormone of happiness that is produced in the body after a cup of coffee, is similarly produced after consuming chocolate, so that coffee is not a drug and getting used to it very quickly passes.
So, we conclude: coffee is a wonderful drink, but it should be drunk with the mind, not more than 300-500 mg of caffeine a day. One cup of coffee contains 80 to 120 mg of caffeine, depending on the type and roasting of coffee, so it's easy to calculate how many cups of coffee you can drink per day without harm to your health.
By the way, Russia is the 4th in terms of drinking coffee, so we need to listen to what the doctors say.
