Is coffee good? or bad? - justify...?

Question

There are many controversies related to coffee, some say it is good, some say it is bad, some say it has prevention properties agains some kind of diseases, what is the truth?

Answer 1

One or two cups a day can actually be healthy. It can help alot with depression. But like with anything, too much is really bad.

Answer 2

There is peace to know that coffee offers some benefits to our health. However, these results should not be interpreted as an incentive to increase your daily coffee intake. Too much coffee may actually increase the risk of heart disease for some people. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition June 2005, researchers from the University of Athens found that coffee drinkers had more stiffness of the major blood vessel in the body than non-coffee drinkers. They suggested for people with high blood pressure or other risk factors for heart disease who drink more than 3 cups of coffee a day to cut down.

Researchers from the University of Scranton released on August 29, 2005 that coffee is the No. 1 source of antioxidants in the American diet. Black tea is the second. Antioxidants are substances or nutrients in foods that can prevent or slow oxidative damage to our body. When our cells utilize oxygen, they naturally produce free radicals (by-products) which can cause damage to other cells. Antioxidants act as "free radical scavengers" and hence prevent and repair damage inflicted by these free radicals. Fruits and vegetables are hailed as the richest sources of antioxidants, but this study shows that coffee is the main source from which most Americans get their antioxidants. Both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee appear to provide similar amounts of antioxidants.

"It's the optimum I see that has a benefit for the heart," he said.

Advice for coffee drinkers.

"Spread your coffee drinking throughout the day."

"Caffeine raises your blood pressure, so if you are going to drink a lot of coffee, choose decaf."

Decaf has the same antioxidant benefits as regular coffee.
Caffeine can also be dehydrating so make sure if you take it first thing in the morning you also have water or juice to start your day off right!

Answer 3

The most clear-cut findings about its benefits come from a 20-year study that followed some 84,000 women and 44,000 men. Published in the May 2, 2006, issue of Circulation, the study concluded that drinking coffee isn't harmful to cardiovascular health and may even be somewhat beneficial.
An even more recent study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition in August, 2006 followed 676 healthy, older men from Finland, the Netherlands, and Italy for 10 years and measured their cognitive function. Those who drank coffee had lower rates of age-related cognitive decline than those who didn't, with maximum protection seen in men who drank three cups of coffee a day.

But few other studies of coffee's effects have been so unambiguously positive. For example, both coffee and decaf can raise your blood pressure temporarily, but we still don't know whether this can lead to hypertension, a heart disease risk factor. Drinking three to six cups of decaf daily (but not regular coffee) can increase levels of blood fats that affect your LDL ("bad") cholesterol.



Coffee may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, another heart disease risk factor. This finding emerged from a review of nine studies published in the July 6, 2005, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, but it conflicts with earlier evidence suggesting that coffee can reduce insulin sensitivity, which would increase the risk of diabetes. To confuse matters further, a study published in the February 2006 issue of Diabetes Care found that decaf lowers the risk of diabetes, suggesting that something other than caffeine may be responsible for any protection coffee affords.

As far as cancer is concerned, coffee might offer some protection, but no one knows how much. A study published in the February 16, 2005, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found a 52 percent lower incidence of rectal cancer among people who regularly drank two or more cups of decaf a day. Coffee contains some antioxidants, which can protect against cancer but not enough of them to make up for risks posed by a poor diet.

Other studies have suggested that coffee may protect against Parkinson's disease, but the evidence isn't strong enough to be certain. In the largest study, among Japanese-American men in Honolulu, the more coffee the men drank, the lower their risk. But no one can say whether those findings would hold true among women or even among men of other ethnic backgrounds. Some studies have suggested that coffee also may protect against Alzheimer's disease, but more research is needed before we can be certain.

On the down side are coffee's well-documented side effects: anxiety, insomnia, tremor and irregular heartbeat. It can also irritate the digestive system, bladder and prostate. If you experience any of these effects, you're better off avoiding coffee (and decaf, which contains substances that may contribute to the symptoms) no matter what potential health benefits it may have. The way coffee affects you is your surest guide to whether or not you should be drinking it at all and, if so, how much.

Answer 4

I would purpose that you type in "health effect from coffee". See what you get.

Anything is good in moderation, caffine is in just about all drinks unless stated otherwise, it is a stimulant, which helps some function, some go nuts, it really depends upon the individual and their habits & taste.
I like coffee because of the taste and nothing more. I feel safer drinking the decaf more since they stopped using embalming fluids to strip the caffine from the coffee beans.

Answer 5

coffee is like almost everything else, it is good for some and not good for others, depends on what illness you already have, coffee has been known to increase your heart rate, so if you have heart disease stay away from coffee, check with your dr, if you likke coffee and it works for you drink up, i drink it everyday, i also drink plenty of water to.

Answer 6

The Dietary recommendation for coffee is no more than two cups per day.

Answer 7

I used to work at an under employed ice skating rink and some nights i wouldn't get off until 12am and have to be back at work at 5:30 am I don't think i would have been able to do it without coffee.

Coffee gets two thumbs up from me for that!

Answer 8

Good question about coffee....and yet Ive tried learning to drink coffee in different ways, with sugar, all black, just cream etc... and I STILL DONT like it.....makes me wonder how people started to drink coffee!

Answer 9

it depends on the study.
I enjoy coffee and drink a cup or two in the morning.
I have found no ill side effects from it and have been drinking it since I was very young.

Answer 10

It is good in moderation. The problem is, like many other good things, some people don't know the meaning of the word moderate.