Could Drinking Coffee be Good for Your Health?

by Symptom Advice on March 5, 2011

There are plenty of peo­ple who avoid drink­ing caf­feinated cof­fee, believ­ing it could lead to all sorts of neg­a­tive health effects. Yet recent research has shown that a mod­er­ate amount of cof­fee could be the key to help­ing reduce the risk of some seri­ous ill­nesses and dis­eases. Of course, there are peo­ple who hap­pily drink plenty of cof­fee in an attempt to stay more alert, feel more ener­gized and keep them going for longer. despite the research show­ing that there really are some pos­i­tive health effects to drink­ing cof­fee, there are also some neg­a­tive effects that could emerge from exces­sive con­sump­tion. This arti­cle will look at some of the poten­tial health effects drink­ing cof­fee could have on you.

Peo­ple all over the world under­stand the stim­u­lant effect drink­ing cof­fee can have. it can help make them feel more alert and more awake. This is espe­cially true if you’ve had a rest­less night’s sleep. How­ever, in sus­cep­ti­ble peo­ple, cof­fee can over­stim­u­late the ner­vous sys­tem. This can cause anx­i­ety symp­toms as well as signs of irri­tabil­ity in some peo­ple. an over­stim­u­lated ner­vous sys­tem can decrease that person’s abil­ity to resist stress, mak­ing the anx­i­ety symp­toms even worse. Over time, con­sis­tent over-stimulation may also exhaust the adrenal glands, which can make that per­son vul­ner­a­ble to other health prob­lems. Low-density lipopro­tein, com­monly referred to as LDL has also been proven to be raised by con­sum­ing large amounts of cof­fee. High LDL is com­monly asso­ci­ated with high cho­les­terol which often indi­cates car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease. The risk of vas­cu­lar dis­ease, heart attack, and stroke are greatly increased with higher cho­les­terol. Fur­ther research has shown that mak­ing sim­ple changes like using paper fil­ters when brew­ing cof­fee can elim­i­nate many of the ele­ments that lead to high cho­les­terol in the cof­fee. Poten­tially harm­ful ingre­di­ents like cafestol and kah­weol, ingre­di­ents that can typ­i­cally only be found in cof­fee beans, actu­ally bond to the paper fil­ter dur­ing the brew­ing process. using a plunger fil­ter or a press­ing pot by com­par­i­son is not as safe as using a paper filter.

Women who drink too much cof­fee are often beset by ane­mia or an iron defi­ciency accord­ing to research. Too much cof­fee pre­vents the body from effec­tively absorb­ing iron. The body needs to main­tain cer­tain iron lev­els for many dif­fer­ent rea­sons. Not only is iron impor­tant for bring­ing oxy­gen to the blood and lungs but it is also needed for count­less enzyme reac­tions the body needs to per­form to main­tain proper func­tion­al­ity. Iron is a key ingre­di­ent for keep­ing infec­tions from run­ning ram­pant in the body. Iron defi­cien­cies have a largely neg­a­tive impact on almost every­thing the body does. Con­sis­tently suf­fer­ing from insuf­fi­cient iron can lead to ane­mia and/or con­stant fatigue. Drink­ing cof­fee in mod­er­a­tion does lead to some sig­nif­i­cant health ben­e­fits. Drink­ing too much cof­fee, though, can have a neg­a­tive impact on your over­all health. Enjoy­ing the ben­e­fits of drink­ing cof­fee on health it is vital that no more than two cups are con­sumed daily.This infor­ma­tion was brought to you by swamptone.com, your source for all things related on wind chimes.

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