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How to drink coffee powder is the healthiest? Drinking coffee has become a popular culture, and many people drink coffee just to keep up with the trend, making it one of the places with the largest number of coffee shops in the world. She stressed that drinking coffee is good for your health, but from a medical point of view, it is best to drink less, because drinking too much coffee is addictive.

In many studies, it has also been found that drinking the right amount of caffeine every day can accelerate metabolism, promote digestion, improve constipation, boost spirit, relieve pain and so on. Hsieh Yu-chih, a dietitian at Mackay Hospital, says that on a psychological level, drinking coffee is a kind of enjoyment, which can also relieve stress and relax the mood. At the same time, it will also stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and produce laxative effect. Drinking after a meal will promote gastric juice secretion, so it is helpful to digestion.

Medical research points out that coffee beans contain sugars, protein, fat, nicotinic acid, potassium, crude fiber, water and other nutrients. In addition, coffee also contains caffeine, tannic acid, alkaloids and other healthy ingredients. Many studies have pointed out that drinking coffee in moderation, that is, two to four cups a day, can stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, produce refreshing and fatigue-relieving effects, relax blood vessels, promote blood circulation, prevent cardiovascular disease, and help constrict arteries in the head, helping to relieve migraines.

Although coffee has many benefits, it is undeniable that coffee is not without shortcomings, and drinking too much will do harm to your health. Foreign studies have found that in countries that drink a lot of coffee, there is a common problem of "iron deficiency anemia", because coffee will affect our body's absorption of iron. The caffeine in coffee stimulates our central nervous system, causing anxiety, insomnia, stomach acid and increasing fatty acids and glucose in the blood.

Lin Jieliang, a doctor at Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, said that coffee, like medicine and food, can cause poisoning if excessive. Not long ago, there were cases in which domestic artists drank coffee to lose weight, causing serious side effects. He said that drinking a large amount of caffeine every day, more than five grams to ten grams (about drinking more than 45 cups of drip grinder coffee per day, or more than 23 cups of 150 sisi mugs), may cause systemic convulsions, coma, severe brain edema, hypokalemia, or arrhythmia, heart paralysis, and the risk of death.

Not only coffee, but also caffeinated drinks sold in the market should not be consumed too much every day. Lin Jieliang said that if you consume more than 500mg to 1,000 mg (one gram) of caffeine every day and drink more than four cups of 150 Xi drip grinded coffee a day, or more than two cups of 300 Xi mugs, there will be symptoms of mild caffeine poisoning, such as restlessness, anxiety, irritability, palpitations, and nausea. And the diuretic effect of increased urine appeared.

Drinking a lot of coffee is easy to cause poisoning, and drinking caffeine for a long time can also be addictive. The greater the daily intake of caffeine, the greater the risk of addiction and the faster the rate of addiction. Once coffee addicts do not drink coffee, they will have withdrawal symptoms such as headache, tiredness and yawning, which are more likely to cause the disease.

The common diseases caused by coffee are divided into the following seven types:

First, raise bad cholesterol

Coffee, like other foods, drinking too much can do harm. Xie Yusheng, who has a lot of research on coffee, says that coffee contains a class II Cafestol, which increases low-density lipoprotein (so-called bad cholesterol), but when brewing coffee is filtered with filter paper to separate Cafestol.

Second, cause heart disease

Foreign studies have found that people who drink more than five cups of coffee a day are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease as normal people. Because caffeine can make blood cholesterol and triglyceride increase, cause arrhythmia, easy to cause heart disease.

III. Calcium loss

Drinking too much coffee can cause calcium loss, leading to osteoporosis. Doctors suggest that women who drink more than 3 cups of coffee a day had better take more calcium supplements to prevent bone loss.

Fourth, cause gastrointestinal diseases

Caffeine will stimulate intestinal contraction, causing diarrhea, often drink coffee on an empty stomach, easy to make gastric acid secretion too much, leading to excessive gastric acid or gastric ulcer.

Leading to premenstrual syndrome

Foreign studies have found that women who drink a lot of coffee before menstruation may suffer from premenstrual syndrome such as emotional instability, nervousness, irritability, distraction, headache or breast pain due to caffeine stimulation.

VI. Inducing breast cancer

Caffeine irritates the breast, causing fibrocysts of the breast and even turning into breast cancer.

VII. The index of inflammation rises.

Some studies have found that caffeine increases inflammation indicators in patients with cardiovascular disease, so people with cardiovascular disease should drink less coffee.

The cooked coffee beans sold by many well-known manufacturers and coffee chains contain more than the safe amount of ochratoxin, which makes many coffee addicts feel uneasy. In fact, in addition to causing kidney disease, animal experiments also have the risk of miscarriage, liver damage and cancer.

So what is ochratoxin?

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Ochratoxins and aflatoxins commonly found in peanuts and corn belong to mycotoxins, which can be produced by ochratoxin Aspergillus ochraceus, Penicillum viridicatum and other molds. Ochratoxin was rarely mentioned in the past, and there were fewer clinical cases of ochratoxin poisoning. As a matter of fact, ochratoxin-producing molds are found in nature's soil, insects, rice, wheat, flour, soybeans, peanuts, corn, coffee beans, agricultural products, vegetables, traditional Chinese medicine and dried fish, so they may be contaminated by ochratoxin. Ochratoxin is divided into A, B, C and D, among which ochratoxin An is the most toxic. The most suitable temperature for the growth of Aspergillus ochre is 25 degrees Celsius and the humidity is 18.5%. Therefore, it is indeed very important for crops to be dried to less than 11% moisture after harvest, and to transport, store and sell them in vacuum packages to maintain the degree of dryness, so as to prevent the growth of Aspergillus ochre. The worse the quality of grain, the higher the content of ochratoxin. When pigs and cattle eat contaminated feed, ochratoxin will be found in their viscera, milk and even muscle.

May cause nephropathy and miscarriage.

A large amount of ochratoxin intake can cause acute renal failure, massive necrosis of renal tubular cells, edema, ascites, pulmonary edema and even death in a short period of time. Long-term low-dose ochratoxin intake will cause renal tubule proximal cell necrosis, degeneration and atrophy, renal interstitial fibrosis, and glomerular vitreous degeneration. This change is similar to the nephropathy caused by citrinin (citrinin), which is collectively called mycotoxin nephropathy (mycotoxic nephropathy). Liver damage can also occur, but it is less serious.

Ochratoxin A can also cause harm to the fetus, causing miscarriage and malformed fetuses. Therefore, pregnant women, in order to avoid accidental ingestion of ochratoxin, should also try not to drink coffee. Ochratoxin A may be carcinogenic in animal experiments.