Don't put too much sugar and cream in your coffee

In the past, many studies have found that drinking a moderate amount of coffee may have a protective effect on the brain and heart. However, domestic studies have shown that drinking coffee is one of the risk factors for metabolic syndrome, and if the metabolic syndrome is not properly controlled, patients are prone to cardiovascular disease. The so-called metabolic syndrome refers to a group of characteristics related to metabolic symptoms, which appear in the same individual, such as waist obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and so on. According to the recommendations of the Department of Health, if the waistline is greater than 90 cm for men and 80 cm for women, it meets the waistline obesity criteria recognized by metabolic syndrome. Professor of Internal Medicine Zeng Chundian presented the study at a symposium held by the Heart Society today.

He said that in order to grasp the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, the research team found that from the health examination data of 40, 000 people, there were more than 3000 people who met the criteria of metabolic syndrome, from which about 1400 people were randomly sampled, and about 2400 people in the control group were collected. to analyze whether metabolic syndrome has a familial tendency. Tseng Chun-Dian says that from the results of the study, it can be seen that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Taiwan is about 16%. Men are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than women, who are taller than women, who are lighter than they are, and who are older than they are. Metabolic syndrome does have familial tendencies, and mothers with metabolic syndrome are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than fathers with metabolic syndrome. As for the Goldman Sachs rate of metabolic syndrome, Zeng Chundian believes that in addition to genetic factors, there should also be an environmental impact, in which betel nut chewing and coffee drinking habits are independent risk factors for metabolic syndrome. The effect of smoking is not so obvious. Compared with the protective factors of risk factors, the study found that doing exercise and eating vegetables have a certain protective effect on the prevention of metabolic syndrome. Previous studies have not pointed out the correlation between coffee and metabolic syndrome. Zeng Chundian said that medical research on coffee is mostly carried out abroad, while foreign black coffee drinkers seem to be more common. Maybe when drinking coffee, Chinese put in too much sugar and cream.

It is recommended that coffee drinkers should control the amount of added sugar and cream to avoid suffering from metabolic syndrome and damage to their health.