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The following is an older article and recent research has changed some of the viewpoints expressed.After researches tracked over 100,000 volunteers for 18 years see what you disagree with. Comments are welcome in any post.A topic after my own heart (as long as I don’t overdue it.)

Can Coffee be a Health Drink? A Cure for Some Ailments?

A few years ago, there were studies saying that coffee can be associated with cancer.  This prompted people to avoid drinking the caffeinated drink.  A few years after that study, researches have recounted the research quoting that the research is flawed.  Current research have showed that coffee can give the body a lot of benefits such as remedies for cholesterol buildup in your legs.

Harvard researchers are saying that coffee, when drank regularly, can be a cure for diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and colon cancer.  It could even improve your mood and treat daily headache problems.  It could even be drank to lower risk of cavities.

Research shows that regular coffee drinkers are 80 percent less likely to have Parkinson’s disease.  While 2-cups-a-day drinkers can reduce the risk of colon cancer by 25 percent and 80 percent in liver cirrhosis risk.  It can even slash the risk of gallstones by half.  There are even studies showing that people who smoke and drink heavily, have less heart and liver damage because of their coffee intake.

So, what causes these benefits?  It is the anti-oxidants, and surprisingly from the caffeine also.  Currently, drugs for curing Parkinson’s disease are being developed.  These drugs have a derivative of caffeine as their component.  Coffee also has chlorogenic acid and  tocophenols which are antioxidants.  These mineral components can improve insulin sensitivity.  When we talk about insulin sensitivity, it is the body’s response to insulin.

There were studies conducted in Europe citing that the trigonelline, the compound which is why coffee smells good and has bitter taste,  also has benefits.  It can be both antibacterial and anti-adhesive.  These prevent the formation of dental cavities.

But can everybody drink coffee?

Unfortunately, not everybody can drink coffee. People with bladder and kidney problems, existing diabetes, gallstones, heart problems, high cholesterol levels, hypoglycemia and generalized panic and /or anxiety attacks should avoid drinking coffee altogether.  Avoiding drinking coffee is also advised to pregnant women and those with high risk of osteoporosis.  New evidence shows otherwise for some people. We will discuss this later.

For pregnant women, if coffee cannot be avoided, then it is recommended just to drink one to two cups a day.  Infertility, miscarriages and low birth weight among babies are the primary reason why pregnant women are recommended against drinking coffee.

Excessive caffeine intake can also lead to nervousness, anxiety and rapid heartbeat.  The caffeine overstimulates the nervous system, making the adrenal glands work overboard.  Osteoporosis patients are also advised against coffee.  Coffee reduces the capability of bones to absorb the necessary minerals, making the bones weak and in risk of osteoporosis.  But the effects can be reduced if milk is mixed with coffee.

For some people, coffee can also be addictive.  People who have stopped drinking coffee experience withdrawal symptoms.  They would get headaches, less energy and alertness, difficulty in being focused, get irritated easily and sometimes even get depressed.

Over caffeine consumption can also have an impact on your skin, since it increases the risk of developing stretch marks.  Caffeine may also play a role in weight gain.  Although, it is mentioned that coffee drinkers may lose weight in the short-term, but in a longer period of time, coffee can lead to weight gain.

Coffee both has good and bad effects.  Similar to other beverages and food, once it is taken in big amounts, then it is likely that they may have undesirable effects to your body.  Whether coffee can be considered as a health drink, it is up to you to make the choice.

Then again.in the morning ,coffee is my remedy for waking up.That can lead to a discussion on insomnia and stress–pros and cons of coffee.

REBUTTAL by Arizona Zack:

Greetings,

First off, regardless whether it’s coffee or anything else, if you need to do it in moderation, you shouldn;t be doing it at all.

Moderation simply means that lesser amounts won’t bother the anatomy as much and it won’t be as noticeable.  HOWEVER, it will still have a collective negative effect.

Furthermore, more than 90% of the coffee availabe to Americans is laced with toxic pesticides due to the fact that any and all plant life that is sprayed with petsticides also absorbs these harmful toxic chemicals from the soil.

Plus, coffee AND caffein are both acidic by nature and an acid anatomy is far more subject to cancer and other deseases than a neutral anatomy (not acid and not alkaline, but neutral).

Now, if you do indepth research as I have done, you will find that the so called research that states that coffee is healthy, was formulated by some corporation that either sell coffee or has a great deal of stock in companies that market coffee.

Also, cooked coffee is dead coffee, as with anything else that is cooked.  Any nutritional value is destroyed by heat
just as you would be destroyed if you were cooked.

Starbucks and other vendors also lace their coffee with chemical flavorings and other chemicals that tend to make humans addicted to thise chemicals.

There are more than 3,000 known chemicals in our processed foods and more than 1,000 of those chemicals are designed to make the human anatomy physically and mentally desire those chemicals and thus, we keep buying the same foods over and over again and the FDA protects the rights of corporations to lace our foods with these poisons.

The FDA is all about protectiing corporate profits and NOT about protectiing our population.

All you need to do is a little bit of digging and you will soon see that the FDA is the question and not the answer.

And coffee will shorten your life span.

And, by the way,  coffee encourages blood sugar disorders and coffee depletes your body of vital minerals and vitamins.

So, if you are passing coffee off as a health drink, you’ve become part of the problem instead of the solution.

If you actually want to achieve optimum health then you should incorporate a diet that will result in a neutral body chemistry, which will yield a MUCH stronger immune system and will dupress aging and literally prevent illness.

Arizona Zack

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