Health

Does it Safe to Consume Coffee Everyday?

Few facts about coffee you must know

Nowadays, coffee has been daily life consumption for years. Having coffee in the morning before kicking your day is an inevitable ritual. In fact, This habit builds for a long time ago

In southeast Asia especially Indonesia, coffee has been grown and consumed since the seventeenth century in the Dutch colonial era. Currently, Indonesia is the third biggest coffee producer in the world after Brazil and Vietnam.

According to the national survey, American adult that drink one cup of coffee a day is 75% and 49 % drinks more than one cup of coffee. These numbers are quite big for daily consumption.

Here are a few statements you need to consider sipping a coffee everyday especially if you drink coffee more than once a day

Is Coffee Good For your health?

In the metanalysis study, published in the National Center for Biotechnology Information, through consuming coffee regularly, it will be lowering the occurrence of metabolic diseases like diabetes type 2. This statement associated with the experiment conduct at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark on rat cells which tested with several components. They found cafestol and caffeic acid which contribute to increased blood sugar intake and increased insulin secretion.

As we know diabetes patients have insulin-resistant, this condition leads the person who suffered diabetes cannot control blood sugar. There was evidence for non-linear dose-response, but taking more than one to six cups a day correlate with lowering the risk whether it's caffeinated or decaffeinated.

Moreover, researchers found that daily coffee consumption of several cups a day anywhere from 2 to 4 cups actually had a lower risk of stroke. Thus, it was associated with a mortality of cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and coronary heart disease. Researchers said the advantage may come from coffee’s effect on blood vessels by way of keeping it flexible and healthy, as a result, it reduces the risk of atherosclerosis which can cause heart attacks.

A meta-analysis of 40 cohort studies showed a lower incidence of cancer for high and low coffee consumption. This may cause coffee to comprise of high antioxidants, which are known to fight the oxidative stress that leads to cancer.

Is Coffee Harmful for your Health?

However, coffee consumption has drawbacks as well. Firstly, people may become dependent on caffeine (people are craving for it and sometimes need a break). The symptoms like headaches, fatigue, irritability are similar to those of people who are on addictive drugs. Although doctors don’t acknowledge it as harmful as habit-forming drugs like opiates, coffee withdrawal still an unpleasant thing and tends to go away after a few days.

Secondly, there was evidence that coffee consumption associated with different outcomes related to pregnancy. Even though in a metanalysis study there is no significant association, however, was found for any category of coffee consumption and third-trimester preterm birth, neural tube defects, and congenital malformations of the oral cleft or cardiovascular system.

How much coffee is safe?

Despite coffee has so many beneficial effects on your body, you still have counted on caffeine intake since drinking too much can leads to health issues particularly in the digestive tract. Recent studies on reviewing on caffeine safety have shown that intake levels of up to 400 mg a day or about 8 Oz cups of coffee are not connected with health risks for adults.

To sum up, coffee consumption is quite beneficial in minimalizing risk factors in adults such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and acting as an antioxidant. Whereas, it has some disadvantages like inducing withdrawal syndrome and harmful for pregnant women. Nevertheless, you can maximize the benefits of caffeine by consuming within the usual level of intake.

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