Experts remind cardiovascular patients not to drink coffee

Experts remind cardiovascular patients not to drink coffee

Coffee, which tastes mellow and refreshing and relieves stress, is the most consumed beverage in the world today. White-collar workers who need to keep up their spirits from nine to five, "petty bourgeoisie" who love to get together and chat, and students who stay up late to fight. Whether it is "active" love or "passive" need, the number of people who drink coffee in our country is growing. The advantages and disadvantages of coffee in cardiovascular and reproductive aspects have also become the focus of medical experts, and coffee with claims of "low caffeine" or even "decaffeinated" is seizing the market. Is coffee good or bad? How to drink in order to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages? The reporter interviewed cardiovascular and nutrition experts.

You should stay away from coffee if you have cardiovascular disease.

"when it comes to coffee, people will think of caffeine. Caffeine is a softer stimulant in coffee. It can increase the body's sensitivity, attention, accelerate the body's metabolism, and improve the body's mental state and physical fitness." Xiang Dingcheng, chief physician in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, General Hospital of Guangzhou military region, introduced this.

According to experts, there are many skills in drinking coffee. For example, you should not only drink coffee, but should add an extra cup of boiled water when tasting coffee. This has two benefits-removing the bad smell from the mouth, increasing urine output and promoting kidney function.

Coffee is a healthy drink, but it must be consumed in an appropriate amount and scientifically, otherwise it may cause physical and mental harm. "Coffee has a certain effect on cardiovascular disease, which has become the consensus of experts, but the specific effect varies from person to person." Xiang Dingcheng says that the role of coffee has to be divided into two. "for people who originally have heart diseases such as high blood pressure and coronary heart disease, drinking coffee can easily cause myocardial ischemia, palpitation and, in serious cases, angina pectoris. For some people whose physique is relatively depressed and sympathetic activity is weak, coffee can increase sympathetic activity and speed up metabolism."

Experts agree that patients with cerebral hemangioma are not suitable to drink coffee, people with heart disease should drink coffee without or low caffeine, skin patients and people with stomach problems should drink as little coffee as possible, and people with diabetes should avoid coffee with too much sugar.

Chen Chaogang, director of the Nutrition Center of the second affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, specifically pointed out that the negative cardiovascular effects of coffee are more "partial" to men. He said that because men drink more and are more stressed, the combination of caffeine and alcohol is more likely to "find the door" for cardiovascular disease. For women, the situation will be much better. The female physique is "negative", while coffee has the effect of "helping yang". It is reported that women who drink one to three cups of coffee a day can promote cardiovascular circulation and have a better effect on the prevention of heart disease than men. At the same time, because coffee has the function of promoting fat decomposition and consuming cholesterol and sugar, women drink coffee in moderation and have the effect of losing weight.

At the same time, he pointed out that because Chinese people's coffee drinking habits are different from those in Europe and the United States, they like to add a lot of sugar and cream, which will increase the calories in the coffee and easily increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Black coffee is healthier than coffee with milk and sugar.