Coffee addiction is also a disease?

The aroma of coffee is refreshing and refreshing.

Many friends feel sick when they don't drink for a day.

Recently, a white-collar woman in Yangzhou is determined to quit coffee for more than a decade.

As a result, I felt dizzy for a few days.

Doze off, shed tears, have poor defecation.

All kinds of symptoms are coming.

Is there still coffee drinking syndrome?

Is drinking coffee really addictive?

After several years of marriage, 32-year-old Xiaoshan discussed with her husband that she planned to get pregnant and have a baby this year. Before that, they decided to change their bad habits. "for me, quitting coffee is the first level." Xiaoshan said that although she did not find any definitive information about the possible impact of drinking coffee on her future baby, she followed her husband's advice and decided not to drink coffee since last week.

"the first few days were the hardest. I was like a drug addict. Dizziness, dozing, tears, and even poor defecation. " Xiaoshan told the reporter. As soon as she held the teacup, she thought of the taste of coffee and the boiled water in the cup, which she couldn't drink at all. After two days, on the third day, the symptoms of "addicts" became more obvious before Xiaoshan, unable to work at all. After asking her husband for advice, she made a small cup of instant coffee and became addicted to it. "just like quitting smoking, you have to adjust slowly."

Not only Xiaoshan, the reporter learned that coffee addicts are not uncommon, mostly concentrated in 25-to 45-year-old people, mostly women.

Ms. Wang, 43, drinks at least four or five cups of unsweetened, unsweetened coffee every day, no matter where she is. "Coffee keeps my mind clear."

Ms. GE, 35, has to defecate within three minutes after the first cup of coffee every morning. "the gastrointestinal response is very accurate, so you never have constipation. If there is no coffee, it is hard to imagine how I should spend that day. "

Ms. Zhou, 41, tried to quit coffee several times because of a bad stomach, but she often persisted for two or three days, then uncontrollably went into the coffee shop and ordered the strongest cup of coffee to satisfy her cravings. "now I can only start by controlling the quantity and quit slowly."

Why is drinking coffee addicted?

More than a dozen regular coffee drinkers interviewed said that if they drink too much coffee, like smokers, they are really addicted.

In this regard, Yin Hong, director of the Yangzhou Hospital of traditional Chinese Medicine, and Liu Qinyuan, a clinical nutrition physician at the affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, both said that the psychological dependence of drinkers on coffee addiction is far greater than the effect of caffeine.

Liu Qinyuan says that compared with coffee from foreign coffee shops, domestic coffee, in addition to instant coffee and coffee drinks, is coffee from ordinary coffee shops, whose purity is much lower, so the content of caffeine is limited, and the real possibility of addiction is not great. As for the many symptoms of abstinence from coffee, Liu Qinyuan believes that the drinking time of coffee may not be at the biological clock.

Yin Hong also believes that coffee addiction is more a habit of drinkers. "for example, as soon as I sit at my desk and turn on my computer to write, I think of drinking coffee." At the beginning, some substances in coffee stimulate the central nervous system and keep drinkers excited. Over time, this stimulus response becomes smaller and smaller, but drinkers have formed a habit that things cannot be written without coffee.

"as with any habit change, if you suddenly stop drinking coffee, you may have headaches, anxiety, fatigue and other symptoms, which is normal and will slowly return to normal after a few days."

How to drink coffee "correctly"?

Would you like to drink coffee and how should you drink it? Liu Qinyuan said that the pharmacological effects of caffeic acid in coffee have been confirmed that it has promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and antioxidation. "this is just what scientific research has found that how much to drink and how to use it cannot be achieved by drinking coffee alone."

In addition, she said, without the addition of pure black coffee, a healthy adult drinking one to three cups a day can also reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Don't overdo anything. Long-term, excessive consumption of coffee, especially coffee containing a lot of additives such as cream, will also cause some harm to the body. Yin Hong said: first of all, the stomach is stimulated and the secretion of gastric acid increases, which stimulates the empty stomach, especially patients with gastric ulcers. After drinking coffee, there will be stomachache; in addition, it is easy to cause bone loss, which will adversely affect the preservation of bone mass. For women, it may increase the threat of osteoporosis; for some people who already have cardiovascular disease, too much coffee will also increase the risk of coronary heart disease.

Like any kind of food, according to everyone's physical condition, the amount and concentration of coffee to drink should be controlled, especially mentally, the two experts said.

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Love to drink coffee, but afraid of drinking too much is bad for your health? A study by the International Society for Life Sciences, an international academic group based in Washington, found that consuming 400 milligrams of caffeine a day, which is equivalent to drinking four cups of coffee, will not harm your health, while pregnant women can consume 300 milligrams of caffeine a day. The researchers analyzed the results of studies published between 2001 and 2015, focusing on the effects of caffeine on acute toxicity, bone, heart, brain and fertility. The Daily Mail quoted Eric Antege, the lead researcher, as saying on the 24th that the study had previously set a safe limit of 400 mg for caffeine intake, and the study provided more support.

According to guidelines issued by the European Food Safety Agency in 2015, caffeine intake is limited to 400 milligrams a day, and excess caffeine can lead to a series of health problems, including anxiety and heart disease. In addition to coffee, tea, functional drinks, chocolate and other foods also contain caffeine. Usually a cup of tea contains 50 milligrams of caffeine, 80 milligrams of red bull, 30 milligrams of cola, no more than 80 milligrams of dark chocolate, and about 40 milligrams of caffeine in a piece of white chocolate.