Health Benefits of Coffee and its Disadvantages

Coffee, the beverage we all drink or drank at least once in our lifetime. For some, it is just a means to stay awake, whereas for others a lifeline. Coffee basically holds a ton of crucial nutrients. But how much of it is beneficial to us, and how much of it is harmful? Read on to know more about it.

A regular 240ml cup of coffee contains

• Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): 11% of the DV
• Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid): 6% of the DV
• Vitamin B1 (thiamine): 2% of the DV
• Vitamin B3 (niacin): 2% of the DV
• Folate: 1% of the DV
• Manganese: 3% of the DV
• Potassium: 3% of the DV
• Magnesium: 2% of the DV
• Phosphorus: 1% of the DV 

Now that we have established a baseline, without any further ado and with the help of a few verified facts let us discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of this powerful beverage.

Health Benefits of Coffee

Consumption of Coffee reduces the risks of stroke, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease

According to a study from Harvard, consumption of coffee can grant us protective qualities against numerous diseases, which includes type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and according to a study from back in 2001, coffee can also protect us from Parkinson's disease. Also, caffeine the stimulus present in can also boost brain function and amplify metabolism. 

(source:- Harvard)

Drinking Coffee has proven to be beneficial across a wide scale of chronic liver diseases

Back in the year 2015, a population-based prospective study on a group of people revealed that consuming coffee reduces mortality from chronic liver diseases, as per a journal from National Center for Biotechnology Information(NCBI). The journal also further states how consuming just 1 cup on a daily basis resulted in at least a 15% reduction in risk of death from chronic liver diseases, whereas 4 cups of coffee daily in a dose-dependent response reduces the death risk by 71%.

(source:-NCBI)

Coffee helps you lose weight

As stated by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a study was carried out recently by their researchers, where a 24-week investigation was led, to determine if consumption of coffee reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, in this investigation 126 overweight adults drank four cups of regular coffee daily. But, after their investigation was over their study revealed an unexpected result, which was drinking coffee was associated with a modest loss of body fat.

(source:-Harvard)

And as we all know well enough, anything and everything good enough also has a few negatives of their own, now let us talk about the disadvantages of drinking coffee.

Coffee can cause insomnia or/and restlessness

Here, the plus point of consuming coffee also becomes one of its negative points. Yes! coffee helps you stay awake, it is mainly the caffeine doing its work, whether you are a caffeine-sensitive person, you must be careful with coffee, the maximum recommended amount of caffeine consumption is around 400 milligrams, which you can easily get from 4 cups of coffee a day, anything more of it may lead you to spend a sleepless night. It is also worth mentioning that, a regular cup of 240ml coffee contains anywhere from 70-140mg, whereas a decaf 240ml cup of coffee contains 7mg of caffeine, which means a caffeine-sensitive person can go for the decaf coffee.

Caffeine warning

The world's primary source of caffeine is clearly coffee, but since caffeine is a stimulant which means it raises levels of physiological or nervous activity in the body, caffeine may worsen some conditions in people, such as:-

anxiety

depression

high blood pressure

heart problems such as arrhythmias

kidney problems

chronic stomach issues

Caffeine is also known to interact with medications of the following kinds:-

asthma medications

depression medications

caffeine-containing weight loss pills

caffeine-containing painkillers

Conclusion:

And that is it. Those were all the little-known but worth mentioning advantages and disadvantages of consuming coffee. Starting from how caffeine is helpful to how & when it should be avoided.

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