Coffee is not so amazing, no more than 3 cups a day.

Recently, the popular word in WeChat circle is "Why do foreigners drink coffee every day?" An amazing secret you don't know! This makes coffee a magic medicine that can fight both aging and cancer. Does coffee really have so many magical effects? Experts warn that coffee is not so amazing, no more than 3 cups a day.

Coffee is not a panacea.

In the view of Hu Guifen, director of the Diet and Nutrition Department of Jinhua Central Hospital, coffee does have some benefits, but it has not achieved the effect of curing all diseases. The caffeine it contains has a particularly strong bitter taste and has the effect of stimulating the central nervous system and muscles, so it has the effect of refreshing and relieving muscle fatigue.

Coffee can also promote metabolism and digestive juice secretion, can help digestion, improve constipation, but it can nourish the stomach, or exaggerate the effect. As for the anti-cancer effect of coffee, there is no unified view at present, and some experts even believe that the substances contained in instant coffee are at risk of causing cancer. So women drink 4 to 6 cups of coffee a day to reduce the incidence of breast cancer, do not easily try. To know, coffee is beneficial to urine, if long-term and a large number of drinking, it is easy to cause the loss of calcium in the human body with the urine. Especially for women, after menopause, they will lose calcium due to lack of estrogen, which will increase the risk of osteoporosis.

It needs to be reminded that the premise that coffee can play a health care role is that citizens had better drink black coffee. If you add sugar and other things, long-term excessive consumption, it is likely to affect your health due to excessive energy intake.

How to drink coffee scientifically

Experts suggest that a person usually absorbs 300 milligrams of caffeine a day, which can have a good effect on the spirit and mood. Therefore, if members of the public want to drink coffee, they should not make more than three cups of brewed coffee a day.

There is also a particular time for drinking coffee. Do not drink before meals, otherwise it will affect the body's absorption of iron, calcium and other mineral elements; do not drink at night, otherwise it will affect sleep. As far as office workers are concerned, it is best to help digestion and refresh the rest of the work after breakfast and lunch.

In addition, coffee is not only used for drinking, but also has a special effect when used externally with some other items. For example, make espresso in a medium-sized coffee pot, add a cup of water, cool to room temperature, rub it on your hair, then take it off with a shower cap for about 20 minutes, and wash off the liquid with warm water.

Mix 1 tablespoon honey, 2 tablespoons freshly ground coffee, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder and 3 tablespoons whole milk on the face and rinse with warm water after 15 minutes.

Patients with cardiovascular diseases, stomach problems, elderly women, pregnant women and cancer patients should avoid coffee as far as possible, otherwise it may have adverse effects. If citizens have a long-term habit of drinking coffee, they should pay attention to calcium supplements.