Coffee drinking in men may prevent prostate cancer, study says

According to recent foreign media reports, coffee may be leading the latest trend of healthy eating. But don't think that upgrading your coffee from medium to oversized will make you healthier. Most researchers agree that there is not enough evidence to show that the benefits of coffee are enough to encourage people who do not drink coffee to change their habits. In addition, no one has found the most healthy daily coffee consumption. The reaction to coffee varies from person to person: a small cup of coffee can make a person anxious and nervous, but some people can sleep soundly all night even after drinking 10 cups. At present, there is no rigorous argument on the relationship between coffee and health, and experts believe that the quality of drinking coffee varies from person to person.

The more coffee you drink, the less likely you are to get sick.

In December alone, an analysis in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that people who drank three to four cups of coffee a day were 25% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who drank less than two cups of coffee a day. In addition, men who drank at least six cups of coffee a day were 60% less likely to develop advanced prostate cancer than men who never drank coffee, according to a study at the meeting of the American Society for Cancer Research.

Earlier studies also suggested that drinking coffee may reduce the risk of colon, oral, throat, esophageal and endometrial cancer. Coffee drinkers are also less likely to suffer from dental caries, gallstones, liver cirrhosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and suicide, the study found. Last year, researchers at Harvard University and the University of Madrid analyzed data on more than 100,000 people for more than two decades and concluded that the more coffee they drank, the less likely they were to die of disease during the study phase. Caffeine can significantly increase blood pressure

However, previous studies have shown that coffee ──, especially the caffeine ingredient ──, raises blood pressure, heart rate and blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid associated with stroke and heart disease. Pregnant women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are more likely to have a miscarriage and have a higher percentage of babies who are underweight. Caffeine is also thought to be associated with benign breast lumps and osteoporosis in older women. In addition, as many people have experienced, coffee can also aggravate irritability, heartburn and insomnia, which can lead to a range of problems, including a higher risk of obesity.

Small controlled studies conducted by American scholars have shown that for people who already have diabetes, caffeine-precisely distributed in the form of tablets-increases postprandial blood pressure and blood sugar levels. Other studies have found that caffeine combined with stress can significantly increase blood pressure levels. "if you are a normal and healthy person, then caffeine may not have any long-term effect," the researchers said. "but there are people who already have a predisposition to high blood pressure and heart disease. Caffeine may be harmful in the long run."

Or benefit from ingredients other than caffeine.

In studies of prostate cancer and diabetes, caffeinated and non-caffeinated coffee has been found to have health benefits, which means that some other ingredients in coffee determine whether it is healthy to drink coffee. Coffee contains hundreds of substances, including potassium, magnesium and vitamin E, as well as chlorogenic acid, which is believed to contain antioxidants. These substances have the potential to protect cells from damage and inflammation, which may be an early manifestation of cancer, diabetes, neurological disorders and cardiovascular disease.

One theory that is gaining the upper hand is that some beneficial ingredients may offset some of the harmful effects of caffeine. For example, although caffeine keeps people awake by blocking the sleep-helping brain compound adenosine, the chlorogenic acid in coffee extends the time for adenosine to circulate in the brain.

In addition, although caffeine seems to increase levels of adrenaline, which dominates the body's actions, coffee itself may have a calming effect. A study published by researchers at Seoul University in South Korea last year in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry showed that even the aroma of coffee beans helped ease tension in mice. Chlorogenic acid also slows the release of glucose into the bloodstream after a meal, which may counteract the glucose effect of caffeine.