- Coffee boosts your physical performance
- Coffee may help you lose weight
- Coffee helps you burn fat
- Coffee helps you focus and stay alert
- Coffee lowers the risk of death
- Coffee reduces the risk of cancers
- Coffee reduces the risk of stroke
- Coffee reduces the risk of Parkinson's disease
7 DISADVANTAGES AND RISKS OF COFFEE DRINKING
1. Bad coffee can be toxic.
Bad quality coffee can have a lot of impurities in it, which can
cause sickness, headache or a general bad feeling. This can happen if
your coffee is made from beans that have been over ripped or otherwise
ruined. Even one ruined bean can make your cup toxic. If you invest and
buy high quality, specialty coffee you don’t have to worry about this.
One of the best is Pilon Coffee. (available at most supermarkets)
2. Coffee can kill you.
Yes, if you drink 80-100 cups (23 litres) in a short session. This
dose is lethal and will amount to 10-13 grams of caffeine within your
body. Before you reach this point, however, you'll be vomiting most of
it out since 23 litres of any liquid is a lot. Even drinking 23 litres
of water can kill you. By the way, a cup of brewed coffee is 98% water.
3. Coffee can cause insomnia and restlessness.
Again, it's the caffeine working here. Your recommended maximum amount of caffeine is 400 milligrams, roughly the amount that you’ll get from 4 cups of coffee. If you’re caffeine-sensitive, be careful with coffee. You are probably already aware what amount and what kind of coffee suits, or doesn't suit you. The amount of caffeine that is safe for human consumption is actually written in our DNA.
4. Don’t drink more than one cup a day if you’re pregnant.
Studies on coffee's effect on a fetus have been controversial, but one thing is sure: if you drink coffee when pregnant, caffeine will also reach the fetus, and your baby is highly sensitive to caffeine. So, if you’re a heavy coffee drinker and can’t stop drinking it while pregnant, at least reduce your coffee intake to one cup a day.
5. If you have high cholesterol please choose filtered coffee.
Coffee beans contain cafestol and kahweol, two ingredients that appear to raise LDL cholesterol levels. Filtering the coffee traps most of the LDL, but cafestol and kahweol are found in espresso, Turkish coffee, French press and Scandinavian style “cooked coffee”.
The intake of LDL from a cup of espresso is still so small that for people with normal cholesterol levels, they won't be at risk. There are also some studies at preliminary stages of diagnosis that have found marks that cafestol and kahweol may have some beneficial anti-cancer effects, and be good for your liver.
6. Beware of decaf coffee.
All coffee beans are decaffeinated in their “green” unroasted state. The
green beans are steamed for 30 minutes to make them more porous. Then,
they are rinsed repeatedly in a solvent, usually ethyl acetate,*
for
about 10 hours. The solvent, now saturated with caffeine is drained off.
The beans are steamed again to get rid of any residual solvent.
However, many coffee brands cut corners and do not remove all the
chemical residue. This
method is often called “Naturally Decaffeinated,” as it refers to ethyl
acetate as naturally occurring. The word "natural" is a marketing ploy. Cow manure is natural, but I don't want to ingest it.
7. Coffee for kids may increase bedwetting.
One survey reported that caffeine consumption of 5-7 year old kids may increase enuresis a.k.a. bedwetting. Children under age 12 should not drink coffee.
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