Is Caffeine Bad for Your Heart?
In United States millions of adults start their day with a cup of coffee and most of them assert that they cannot have a better start without it. They again repeat coffee with breakfast and with them join millions of others who usually take their first cup of coffee of the day. There are many who take no less than eight to ten cups of coffee per day; others remain satisfied at least with three to four cups. However none of them can go without it.
A retired Navy counselor submitted “ when I worked, I literally couldn’t think until I had had my first cup of coffee”, he further stated “ there have been periods when I cut way down or mixed decaffeinated coffee with regular, but I definitely missed the caffeine”. In fact what he thought about coffee is stress buster and there are millions to share his thought. But, in fact, coffee is just opposite to what it is considered to be. If aggravates the stress, it has been found by the researchers of Duke University Medical Center. The study reveals that the effect of caffeine remains throughout the day.
What is more concerning that researchers concluded that caffeine present in three to four cups of coffee raise the blood pressure and that last for many hours. Though the increase appears to be modest but this reverses the effect of drugs that one takes to keep his or her blood pressure under control. So, this moderate increase of blood pressure is sufficient to cause heart attack or stroke, as observed by lead author Dr James D. Lane, PhD.
In United States alone 85 per cent of adults consume caffeine in the form of tea, coffee or soda. The average number of cups a coffee drinker takes is 3.3, and 64 % of all coffee is consumed at breakfast.
Dr. Lane advise them who are concerned about their blood pressure and want to cut down the stress; they better quit coffee ,it is easy ; since they are likely to feel a lot better. Withdrawing from coffee may give some withdrawal symptom like mental fogginess, sleepiness or difficulty to concentrate; but once you come out of it, it is lot better and healthy for your heart.
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