Many of us were wondering whether can coffee be involved in the diet Of a cardiac disease sufferer or a hypertensive patient. In this article I am going to discussed on the relationshijp between coffee ,heart disease ,high blood pressure and also type 2 diabetes mellitus. There is no evidence saying that coffee is a risk factor for coronary heart disease. In fact coffee have the effects against coronary heart disease. A study published in international journal of cardiologist in 2009 coffee said that coffee can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease in women (just like red wine,they cause vasodilation and prevent the blockage of coronary vessels, but it is less effective than red wine).A study also proves that caffeine ingested in the form of coffee have little effect on the increase of blood pressure (due to dilution effect and also pharmacokinetic factors,the increase in heart rate is less as compare to when consuming the caffeine directly) so hypertensive patient can drink a moderate amount of coffee without having to worry too much provided they didn't abuse it. Excessive consumption of coffee eg more than 8 cups per day can increase body metabolism rate (catabolism of glucose and anabolism of cholestreol...) and so the cholesterol level in our body increases too, thus rising the risk of coronary heart disease.
Obesity can lead to type two diabetes mellitus in which the pancrease still producing insulin for the conversion of unconsumed glucose into glycogen and lipid for storage, but what happens is the body becomes resisted towards insulin .For an obese patient the glycogen and lipid is too much, the storge is too huge, so as a natural tendency the body will try and prevent the conversion of more glucose into glycogen by insulin, thus the blood glucose level rises. According to American journal clinical nutrition 2006 ,long term use of appropriate amount of coffee can result in weight loss when more fat and glycogen is catabolized due to the higher metabolism rate resulted from caffeine. In addition to that, more glucose is oxidized ,so patient blood glucose level is now been reduced. Besides that, after the weigh loss resulting from the rapid catabolism of glycogen and fat, there is now more space for the storage and conversion of glucose into glycogen by insulin. Thus the medical condition of type 2 diabetes mellitus patient can be improved .
a small amount of caffeine is also do help in relieving headache.That is why the caffeine is commonly found in many over-the-counter headache medication such as Dristan.Some of the researchs have proved, the addition of caffeine in the pain killer for treating headache will increase the effectiveness of that drug by 40%.
ReplyDeleteAccording to a new study in Japan, caffeine do actually enchance the memory.The scientists found out that the caffeine will stimulate the hippocampus to increase calcium concentration.It is the same concept as what caffeine will do to the muscle cells.When the calcium concentration is increased,the flow of the signal in the brain cells will be faster. By this the memory will get improved.
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