| Coffee is heavily studied, but study results contradict | | | | Raised levels of homocysteine are as a factor in the |
| one another. If science says that it is bad for you | | | | development of cardiovascular disease. Australian |
| today, wait a day or two and another study will be | | | | researchers found drinking coffee has potentially |
| published claiming the exact opposite findings.The | | | | harmful effects on blood vessels. The caffeine may |
| Good:Coffee has had its medicinal purposes. My own | | | | cause a loss of aortic elasticity, the main artery |
| ancestors used it to treat asthma. Certain chemicals | | | | supplying blood to the body.The findings are disputed |
| in coffee have even be proven effective at | | | | by the coffee industry and some studies, but it also |
| stimulating bronchial dilation of people previously | | | | appears to be associated with an increased risk for |
| diagnosed with specific types of asthma. Some | | | | breast and endometrial cancer. This is due to an |
| modern day asthma medications are even made | | | | increase in estrogen levels.Studies have also shown |
| from chemicals in the caffeine family.Newly published | | | | that caffeine in coffee can raise levels of stress |
| findings suggest that men drinking caffeinated | | | | hormones and can lead to heart palpitations, jitters, |
| beverages, including coffee, have as much as a 3 to | | | | and nervousness. People with panic or anxiety |
| 6 times lower risk of developing Parkinson's | | | | disorders can be especially sensitive to the caffeine in |
| disease.The caffeine in coffee increases your | | | | coffee. Even in small amounts, the stimulant can |
| metabolic rate, making weight loss faster and easier. | | | | exacerbate their symptoms.Coffee relaxes the |
| It has also been associated with a reduced risk of | | | | esophagus causing reflux.The Ugly:Pregnant and |
| suicide in women.The Bad:Women who drink more | | | | nursing women should never drink coffee. Caffeine is |
| than one cup a day of decaf are considered at a | | | | a stimulant drug that easily passes through the |
| much higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. | | | | placenta to the developing fetus and is also |
| The theory is that the chemically decaffeinated | | | | transferred through breast milk. Fetuses have no |
| products are causing the increased risk of | | | | ability to detoxify caffeine. Drink coffee increases the |
| autoimmunity. If you are going to drink decaffeinated | | | | risk of miscarriage and various birth defects.For more |
| coffee anyway, be sure that it uses a non-chemical | | | | information, visit the following:How Bad is it Really? |
| based method.Those at risk of heart disease and | | | | Drinkers Face Lower Parkinson's Disease Risk May |
| stroke should avoid coffee. Drinking coffee interferes | | | | Damage Blood Vessels and Suicide and Diabetes and |
| with your body's ability to keep homocysteine and | | | | Reflux and Addiction Whitaker is an author and |
| cholesterol levels in check and can increase blood | | | | speaker on the topic of nutritional support of |
| pressure. (According to a study done in the | | | | autoimmune disease. |
| Netherlands, this is true even if the coffee is filtered.) | | | | |