The little-known benefits of coffee

Every day do not drink a few sips of coffee, I feel tired, but will worry about drinking more coffee is harmful to the body. When you fear the dangers of coffee, Vanderbilt University has set up a coffee research center to actively explore this long-misunderstood natural substance and apply it to medical resources to help fight cancer, AIDS, and civilized diseases. For those little-known benefits, the editor of China Coffee Network will tell you now...

1. Improve mental thinking

Drinking a caffeinated beverage before you give a speech or interview can help you think more flexibly, according to a recent study from the University of California School of Medicine. Hyla Cass, a professor at the school, said caffeine can enhance the release of dopamine in the brain, so in addition to helping focus, thinking logic and improving memory, it can also make people positive motivation and activity effects, but he also stressed that this effect does not last long, at most an hour, so it is recommended that you have an important meeting or interview half an hour before a cup of coffee.

2. Reduce headache problems

Do you have a headache every day without first having a cup of coffee? A report from the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago confirms that caffeine does have a headache relief effect. Dr. Seymour Diamond says caffeine's pain-relieving effects are mainly related to its ability to restrict blood flow, especially if your headache is caused by dilated blood vessels in the brain. However, it is worth noting that this caffeine therapy is not suitable for long-term headache patients, because once the intake of excessive caffeine, more than 150 mg per day, but will be relatively aggravated headache degree.

3. Help to breathe

It sounds strange, but Marianne Frieri, a professor of medicine at Nassau University Medical Center in New York, points out that many patients with chronic asthma problems feel their breathing passages are smoother if they have a cup of coffee in the morning. American medical institutions have found that caffeine contains anti-allergic substances, can inhibit histamine in the body, and has the effect of dilating blood vessels, thus can produce the effect of relaxing the respiratory tract, so that people feel the phenomenon of breathing becomes smoother, but they do not recommend that patients suffering from asthma rely on drinking caffeinated beverages to improve asthma breathing problems.

4. Stimulate appetite

Although caffeine does have the effect of accelerating the decomposition of fat in the body, and caffeine-based slimming products are also varied, but you may have known that there are usually small problems of eating or inexplicable hunger, most likely because the caffeine in the body is at work, because caffeine affects the central nervous system in the body, leading to increased secretion of gastric acid, stimulating appetite, making people prone to hunger or want to eat.