What are the advantages and disadvantages of drinking coffee regularly? Is there any harm in drinking too much coffee?

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Now walking in the street, we can often see a lot of people holding a cup of coffee, which seems to have become a fashionable consumer goods. In recent years, with the continuous development of China's economy, coffee is becoming more and more common in our lives. In particular, white-collar workers in office buildings often drink coffee, because they have to stay awake for a long time in order to work better, so the existence of coffee in the office building is more obvious.

So apart from the financial cost of drinking coffee every day, have you ever thought about the negative effects of drinking coffee regularly? Let's get to know it!

Coffee has significant benefits for the following diseases: type 2 diabetes, cancer-especially rectal cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, endometrial cancer, melanoma, prostate cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.

Moderate drinking coffee has a protective effect on cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, stroke and so on. But drinking too much coffee may cause high blood pressure and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Drinking too much coffee can also cause insomnia. The amount of coffee varies from person to person.

It is appropriate to drink 2-4 cups of coffee a day.

Benefits

Coffee contains certain nutrients. Coffee beans contain sugars, protein, fat, nicotinic acid, potassium, crude fiber, moisture and other nutrients.

Coffee is good for the skin. Taking a bath with coffee powder is a kind of thermotherapy, which has the effect of losing weight.

Coffee can promote metabolic function and activate digestive organs.

Coffee has the function of relieving alcohol. Drinking coffee after drinking alcohol will quickly oxidize the acetaldehyde converted from alcohol, decompose it into water and carbon dioxide and discharge it out of the body.

Coffee can relieve fatigue.

Protect the liver

In recent years, there is growing evidence that coffee can reduce the risk of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. Coffee is rich in polyphenols that also protect the liver. Patients with hepatitis are advised to drink some coffee every day, which is good for the repair of liver cells.

Drinking coffee can help people with heavy drinking, overweight, diabetes or iron overload reduce the risk of liver disease, but there is no evidence that coffee and tea can reduce the risk of chronic liver disease from fatty liver or viral hepatitis.

Drinking coffee regularly can prevent radiation damage.

Coffee protects the heart and blood vessels.

Coffee is refreshing.

Coffee is anti-melancholy, a small amount of coffee can cheer people up, feel happy, and relieve the melancholy phenomenon.

Coffee has a diuretic effect, which can increase the amount of urination, thus increasing the number of times to go to the toilet.

Can prevent cancer and fight cancer.

The polyphenols in coffee are strong antioxidants. Drinking some coffee every day has a certain effect on cancer prevention and anti-cancer.

Women who drank more than three cups of caffeinated coffee a day had a 21% lower risk of basal cell cancer than those who drank less than one cup a month. Caffeine can also inhibit tumor growth.

If women drank four or six cups of coffee a day, the incidence of breast cancer would be reduced by 25 percent, 70 percent, even for women with a family history of breast cancer. This is because coffee can reduce the production of carcinogenic estrogens.

Coffee can improve constipation, coffee can stimulate gastrointestinal hormones or peristaltic hormones, produce laxative effect, can be used as a rapid laxative.

Coffee can relieve pain, and when caffeine is used as a medicine, it can enhance the effect of some painkillers.

It can relieve exercise soreness.

Drinking two cups of coffee after exercise can help relieve muscle soreness. Drinking coffee can help people relieve muscle pain caused by excessive exercise, according to a study. Although caffeine has the effect of relieving exercise pain, it is often only effective for people who do not drink coffee very often.

Coffee has the functions of anti-oxidation and heart protection, strengthening muscles and bones, benefiting waist and knees, appetizer, eliminating fat and accumulation, promoting orifice and dehumidification, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving wind and relieving spasm and so on.

Disadvantages

Coffee can increase the risk of heart disease.

Causing nervousness. For people with anxiety disorders, caffeine can worsen symptoms such as sweaty palms, palpitations and tinnitus.

Coffee can cause blood pressure to rise and cause the walls of blood vessels to contract.

Induced osteoporosis caffeine itself has a good diuretic effect. If you drink a lot of coffee for a long time, it is easy to cause bone loss and adversely affect the preservation of bone mass.

Caffeine can increase stomach acid, and continuous high-dose intake can lead to peptic ulcers, erosive esophagitis and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Caffeine poisoning includes addiction and a range of physical and psychological side effects, such as nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremors, muscle convulsions (hyperreflexia), insomnia and palpitations.

Caffeine also reduces women's chances of getting pregnant, increases the risk of miscarriage and slows the development of the fetus.

There are many benefits of coffee, often drinking coffee is very beneficial, but everything can not be excessive, too much will be harmful, while enjoying the delicious coffee, we should also pay attention to the harm of excessive caffeine to the body. Coffee is a high consumer goods in today's society, especially white-collar workers who often work overtime and stay up late in office buildings. It can improve work efficiency at work, but if it is too much to bring harm to the body, the loss outweighs the gain.

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