When people think of coffee they usually picturise something that'll boast their energy, help them stay awake and concentrate.
When someone needs some sleepless hours at night or energy booster in the morning, their favorite get away is coffee.
Despite what you have heard, there are there are plenty of good things to be said about coffee.It's high in anti-oxidants and linked to a reduced risk of many diseases like liver cancer, type-2 diabetes, heart failure and inflammatory bowel disease. There are many researches that provide evidence to support the results.
Worldwide experts estimate that people consume around 2.25 billion cups of coffee per day.
This article takes a detailed look at coffee and it's health effects and also why you should resist yourself from having coffee.And some reasons for having a hot cup of brewed coffee with some chocolate syrup pour on it.
Coffee contains a no. of useful nutrients, including riboflavin(vitamin B-2), niacin(vitamin B-3), magnesium, potassium, and various phenolic compound.
On the other hand, it is a stimulant, bitter(tikta) and euphoriant. Coffee provokes all the 3 doshas VATA, PITTA and KAPHA. Highly addictive, it is a digestive irritant and adrenal stimulant.
Coffee is a potent factor provoking vata. Vata or vata-pitta individuals run on adrenal energy, a tendency coffee serves to exacerbate. Coffee pulls on the reserve energy of the kidneys and adrenals, putting the body into biological debt.
5 benefits of drinking coffee
Health benefits of enjoying a hot cup of coffee or cold mug with some ice includes:
- protective against type-2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, liver diseases, and liver cancer.
- promotion of healthy heart and a long life.
- stimulates brain function and boosts metabolism.
- protection against Alzheimer's disease.
- lower risk of depression and suicide.
It is also true that when people consume caffeine regularly they become tolerant to it. Either it stops working as it did, or a larger dose is needed to produce the same effect.
Caffeine is an addictive substance. It can lead to tolerance and well-documented withdrawal symptoms like headaches, tirednedd, and irritability.
This apparently looking tempting drink,has some dark secrets hidden in it's flavour:
•Caffeine is actually a defense chemical
Caffeine produced by coffee plant is actually a form of defense mechanism used by the plant. It is a poison that paralyses and kills the insect that eat its seed. It also kills the plants that are growing nearby to provide the coffee plant with gnoreater access to sunlight and space.
Coffee beans are only called 'beans'because of the resemblance-they're actually berries.
•Coffee puts the body into energy debt
As per ayurveda, coffee causes the energy in the body to move upwards(udana vayu) and outwards(vyana vayu), depleting the body of the sustenance and nourishment of the ojas(ultimate tissue of the body according to ayurveda). This depleting energy sends the nervous system(especially brain) into a fight or flight mode. Thus increasing the body's reability on it.
•After just 1 cup of coffee fight or flight mode is activated for 3 weeks
3weeks! Yess! The brain capacity is reduced to that of a prehistoric man since the limbic system is turned all the way on. Brain is bio-chemically hallucinated to believe that the body is in a danger situation by the sympathetic nervous system.
This is the reason why the so called modern and coffee addicted society suffer anxiety and nervous system disorder.
•Coffee might be an obstruction in weight loss
Coffee promotes retention of sodium ions in the body which in turn is a reason of increased amount of water retention in the body.
This may also be a reason of substantial weight gain.
Despite the fact that caffeine is a mild diuretic, you don't lose more fluid than you take in by drinking coffee, so it cannot dehydrate you.
•Coffee can be a reason for ill mental health
A study in the year 2016 concluded that a high intake of caffeine during adolescence can lead to permanent changes in the brain.
Just the smell of coffee can help you wake up in the morning.
If you don't like a cup of coffee,there are not much evidences for it's beneficial effects for you to start having one. But if you like it, then it's time for you to ponder upon the reasons of not stopping having it.
WHAT WILL YOU DECIDE TO HAVE IT OR NOT TO HAVE IT?? CHOICE IS YOURS!!
