1, the benefits of drinking coffee
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coffee is an irritating drink, which is often confused with spicy roasted food, which easily leads to damp heat constitution. Therefore, friends with acne and dry mouth should drink less. Coffee is actually a central nervous system stimulant, which has a significant refreshing effect, but excessive drinking will cause excessive excitement, insomnia, palpitations and other symptoms.
Coffee belongs to the "warmth" of roasted coffee. Coffee can stimulate the central nervous system, promote brain activity, make the brain more sober, lively and sensitive, have abundant thinking ability and concentration, and improve work efficiency. Coffee can also stimulate sympathetic nerve, stimulate gastric acid secretion in gastrointestinal tract, promote digestion and make defecation faster. The most important caffeine is warm, which can improve the metabolic rate of human body, increase energy consumption, and help to lose weight and reduce blood fat. Coffee has many advantages, so it is deeply loved by scientists.
2. Is drinking coffee addictive?
Studies show that if you drink too much coffee every day (for example, more than six cups), it may lead to addiction, reduce your sensitivity to coffee, and you will drink more and more and fall into a vicious circle.
Many people are concerned about whether pregnant women can drink coffee. Based on the current scientific evidence, it is generally accepted that no more than two cups (about 200 milligrams of caffeine) a day is acceptable. More than this number of pregnant women will increase the risk of miscarriage, premature delivery or underweight babies. Drinking too much coffee will become a coffee addiction, especially if you stay up late for a long time, your work and rest are abnormal and you are under great pressure. At this time, refreshing yourself with coffee is not only bad, but also harmful to your health. People with yin deficiency constitution are prone to get angry, dry mouth, constipation and sour eyes when drinking coffee for a long time, which is not only addictive to coffee, but also reduces the refreshing effect.
3. Will you get drunk after drinking coffee?
Some people feel uncomfortable drinking coffee, which is also called coffee drunkenness. In fact, it is coffee poisoning or sensitivity to caffeine. Brain sensitivity to caffeine varies from person to person. Friends who are sensitive to coffee are actually physical problems. Among them, people with damp heat constitution spleen and stomach are prone to hyperacidity, which is more irritating when drinking coffee. It is easy to cause gastroesophageal reflux, and it is also easy to affect the conduction of the central nervous system, leading to physical discomfort. For drinking coffee, we should pay more attention to the reaction with drugs. The most important thing to be careful of is ephedrine, which can stimulate nerve excitement. If coffee is added, the effect will be greatly enhanced, resulting in the symptoms of "overdose". Cold medicine generally contains ephedrine, so take cold medicine without drinking coffee.
4. How to drink coffee is healthy?
Generally speaking, children are more sensitive to caffeine than adults. Considering that it is more important for children to avoid side effects, children are advised not to drink coffee. In addition to paying attention to physical fitness, if you want to drink coffee to promote health, it is recommended to choose black coffee with less caffeine and no artificial additives. For health reasons, it is suggested that fresh milk can replace your coffee partner, reduce sugar and avoid offsetting the original benefits of coffee. Diabetic patients are advised to drink decaffeinated coffee instead. As for patients with hypertension, we should pay attention to the time of drinking coffee and try to avoid drinking coffee after getting up in the morning to avoid the influence of hypertension.
5. The disadvantages of drinking coffee
1. People who are used to drinking a lot of coffee will stop drinking coffee, and they will have symptoms such as headache, irritability, muscle tension and nervousness, and the symptoms will disappear after taking caffeine.
2. Women during pregnancy and lactation should drink coffee in moderation, because caffeine will penetrate into the placenta and appear in breast milk.
Drinking coffee will arouse people's mental excitement. Caffeine can affect sleep within 4 hours after drinking coffee.