Diverse Effects of Coffee to Human Health
Coffee is very well known for its flavor and aroma at all over the country. It is the most widely consumed beverages in the whole world after water and have been drunk by people at the age of 25-60 years old. Every coffee is different. It has its own specialties. In this world, coffee can be divided into two main species, which are Robusta and Arabica. Between these two coffees, Robusta has the highest amount of production, around 80%, as Robusta coffee is much more favorable to people as it is more enjoyable to drink, compared to Arabica, it has the twice amount of caffeine in Robusta which does not suits easily to every single person. Robusta coffee is usually planted in Brazil and Vietnam while …show more content…
Coffee itself has seven types which is espresso, cappuccino, Americano, Caf Au Lait, mochachino, and caramel machiatto (Gerreks, n.d.). The coffee is reported to contain more than a thousand different chemicals, including carbohydrate, lipids, nitrogenous compounds, vitamins, minerals, alkaloids and phenolic compounds (Higdon, 2006) that are good for healths. People love to drink coffee because of the caffeine that stimulates them to feel calm and relax. However, behind all these facts, there are variety effects of coffee consumption to our health, either bad or good.
Caffeine in a coffee has its own adverse effect to our body. By making coffee as our favorite beverages every day, it can affect our health in every ways. One of the benefits is it can improves our performance in an exercise. It can help us in increasing our endurance, delay fatigue and of course improve our respiratory efficiency. This happens because the caffeine has an effect towards human’s adenosine receptors in the central nervous system, which function’s to regulate …show more content…
However, the way it affects depends on how a person consumes it, either in a small amount or repeatedly. When a person drinks a caffeinated coffee in a small amount, there is a small rise in their blood pressure. However, for decaffeinated coffee, it did not bring any effect (Nurminen, 1999). A study also showed that in a single dose of caffeine which was equivalent to two or three cups of coffee, it increased the diastolic blood pressure by 4-13 mmHg and systolic blood pressure by 3-14 mmHg in normotensive subjects. The difference of the result may be due to the different kinds of method had be done to do the experiment. According to Hofer, coffees are proved to increase blood pressure. He claimed that a study with 338 female subjects were taken under condition while they are fasting and however, James (1994) argue that it would lead to negative results as caffeine deprivation has been associated with lower blood pressure in habitual consumers. Daniel (1998) also had conducted an experiment to test caffeine effects on blood pressure. He conducted the experiment by making ten cyclists as subjects, and been asked to abstain themselves not to drink coffee for 4 days before experiment been conducted, and drink coffee in a different test. They were asked to cycle an electronically braked bicycle ergonometer for ten days for 55 minutes, and rest 45 minutes . All of the body temperature, skin temperature and blood
Coffee is very well known for its flavor and aroma at all over the country. It is the most widely consumed beverages in the whole world after water and have been drunk by people at the age of 25-60 years old. Every coffee is different. It has its own specialties. In this world, coffee can be divided into two main species, which are Robusta and Arabica. Between these two coffees, Robusta has the highest amount of production, around 80%, as Robusta coffee is much more favorable to people as it is more enjoyable to drink, compared to Arabica, it has the twice amount of caffeine in Robusta which does not suits easily to every single person. Robusta coffee is usually planted in Brazil and Vietnam while …show more content…
Coffee itself has seven types which is espresso, cappuccino, Americano, Caf Au Lait, mochachino, and caramel machiatto (Gerreks, n.d.). The coffee is reported to contain more than a thousand different chemicals, including carbohydrate, lipids, nitrogenous compounds, vitamins, minerals, alkaloids and phenolic compounds (Higdon, 2006) that are good for healths. People love to drink coffee because of the caffeine that stimulates them to feel calm and relax. However, behind all these facts, there are variety effects of coffee consumption to our health, either bad or good.
Caffeine in a coffee has its own adverse effect to our body. By making coffee as our favorite beverages every day, it can affect our health in every ways. One of the benefits is it can improves our performance in an exercise. It can help us in increasing our endurance, delay fatigue and of course improve our respiratory efficiency. This happens because the caffeine has an effect towards human’s adenosine receptors in the central nervous system, which function’s to regulate …show more content…
However, the way it affects depends on how a person consumes it, either in a small amount or repeatedly. When a person drinks a caffeinated coffee in a small amount, there is a small rise in their blood pressure. However, for decaffeinated coffee, it did not bring any effect (Nurminen, 1999). A study also showed that in a single dose of caffeine which was equivalent to two or three cups of coffee, it increased the diastolic blood pressure by 4-13 mmHg and systolic blood pressure by 3-14 mmHg in normotensive subjects. The difference of the result may be due to the different kinds of method had be done to do the experiment. According to Hofer, coffees are proved to increase blood pressure. He claimed that a study with 338 female subjects were taken under condition while they are fasting and however, James (1994) argue that it would lead to negative results as caffeine deprivation has been associated with lower blood pressure in habitual consumers. Daniel (1998) also had conducted an experiment to test caffeine effects on blood pressure. He conducted the experiment by making ten cyclists as subjects, and been asked to abstain themselves not to drink coffee for 4 days before experiment been conducted, and drink coffee in a different test. They were asked to cycle an electronically braked bicycle ergonometer for ten days for 55 minutes, and rest 45 minutes . All of the body temperature, skin temperature and blood