For coffee lovers, it's not complete if it did not start the day without a glass of hot coffee in the morning. But behind the pleasures, many people assume that the caffeine content of coffee can trigger heart health problems.
Is it true that coffee consumption can be harmful to the heart? Please note, not all copies have the same effect. In fact, some studies have not been fully able to prove the threat.
Some research on coffee is decorated with various contradictions in the results. In
addition to the methodology and the size of the study, some differences
in the way the presentation can also affect the coffee.
Unfiltered
coffee contains chemicals called diterpenes kahweol and cafestol like,
associated with an increase in bad cholesterol or LDL, which eventually
lead to an increased risk of heart disease. Some studies suggest that drinking boiled coffee without filtter, can raise cholesterol as much as 10 percent. Experts believe that chemicals in coffee can be removed with filter paper.
The most well-known chemicals in coffee is caffeine. On average, one cup of brewed coffee contains about 100 mg or caffeine. While decaffeinated coffee or decaf coffee contains only a few milligrams of caffeine alone.
Assessment of Research
Common perception that coffee drinking can affect heart rate or rhythm. This assumption is not entirely true. A
Canadian study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in January
1991 has reviewed the five previous studies of participants with
abnormal heart rhythm problem. They found that drinking five cups of coffee a day did not exacerbate cardiac rhythm.
Interestingly,
a large-scale study involving about 130,000 people were members of the
insurers 'Kaiser Pemanente' showed that participants who drank three
cups of coffee a day, 20 percent are less likely to be hospitalized due
to abnormal heart rhythms than those who drank no coffee.
Meanwhile,
research at Harvard involving 45 000 healthy men, joined in the Health
Professionals Foolow-Up Study, published in the New England Journal of
Medicine in 1990, found that coffee drinking has no effect on the risk
of heart attack or stroke.
Whereas
a more recent findings in Japan (81 000 men and women), published in
the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health showed that drinking
one or two cups of coffee per day was associated with reduced risk of
death from heart disease to 23 percent.
Another
study in 2008 in Spain, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine,
involved 129 000 men and women over two decades discovered that women
who drank four to five cups per day had 34 percent lower risk of dying
from heart disease, while men who consumed more than five cups a day, 44 percent had a lower risk of dying from heart disease.
Should drink coffee?
Before
you begin to recommend coffee as a drink to your health, you need first
to answer this question: Can coffee harmful to health?
Consumption
of coffee on a regular basis in statistics and research have not been
able to produce conclusive evidence whether the benefits of drinking
coffee has a direct effect or not.
There
are over 1,000 chemicals contained in coffee, many of which have been
tested and shown to have cancer-causing effects in animal studies when
given in high doses.
One of acrylamide - a chemical carcinogen - that abortion is higher in brewed coffee instead of instant coffee. Acrylamide also causes nerve damage in people who have very high levels of stress in the workplace.
Caffeinated
coffee may not be suitable for some people, especially those who are
elderly, who are unable to metabolize caffeine effectively and do not
tolerate coffee well. In
some conditions, it also may aggravate pre-existing conditions such as
heartburn, migraines, insomnia and abnormal heart rhythms.
Basically, drinking coffee is not harmful as long as it is consumed in the right amount and not excessive. There are better ways to reduce heart disease and stroke, such as stopping smoking, reducing cholesterol diet and exercise.
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