Thursday, September 22, 2011

Dr. Christian Jessen: a new health drink - coffee


I have lost count of the coffee once made headlines health. I challenge you to scan every health magazine and did not find much advice to give up tea and coffee as an important part of the "detox" and improve health. This advice, of course, nonsense at all.

Coffee is a commodity that I think is misrepresented. This is one of the most researched products in the world and the weight of science demonstrates moderate coffee consumption (four to five cups per day) is safe and can even provide health benefits.

In the UK we drink 70 million cups of coffee per day, which would make the side effects of coffee are really serious problem. But despite claiming crank coffee is dehydrating and toxic, have proven no more a diuretic than water, and is the main food source of antioxidants, has significantly more antioxidant activity than either total cocoa, green tea, black tea or herbal tea.

State news that just two cups of coffee a day can significantly reduce the risk of stroke. Statistics from a survey of eight projects nearly half a million people combined, so research is very significant. Found that those who drank two cups of coffee a day were 14 percent less likely to experience brain clots, while three to four cups a day can reduce the danger by 17 percent.

Other studies show that coffee may be protective against the development of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, although further research is needed on the biological mechanisms underlying the potentially protective effect before it can be stated categorically that coffee protects against this debilitating disease.
In addition, thousands of research projects have been conducted to investigate whether there
is the relationship between coffee consumption and the development of common cancers.

Conclusions suggest coffee consumption can reduce the risk of developing liver carcinoma and prostate cancer, and when confounding factors like smoking are controlled, scientific evidence indicates moderate coffee consumption does not increase cancer risk in one of the sites studied, including breast, kidney, bladder, pancreas, ovarian, colon and rectum. World Cancer Research Fund stated that the evidence shows that most coffee consumption has no significant association with cancer risk at any site.

Pregnant women may have to reduce their intake, but the Food Standards Agency, the Royal College of Midwives and the Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition all agree does not need to cut off coffee completely safe during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.

I do not think it's important to drink coffee if it's good for them but I think it is important that we know it's not bad for health.

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