Effects
The question if coffee is unhealthy employs the scholars since long time.
Already in the 18th century the swedish king gustaf the third was interested
in the effect of coffee:
He pardoned two twins under the condition that one of them has to drink three
times a day a cup of tea, and the other the same but coffee instead of tea.
The one who drank tea died first. The royal doctors concluded that coffee is
less unhealthy than tea.
Till today the scientist argue about the healthiness of coffee. New researches concluded that coffee is not the reason for heart - or stomach complaints. One can also hear the specialists naming coffee the liquid drug. Also the potential of addiction of our famous beverage is overrated. According the French research centre Inserem in Strasbourg, no kind of addiction has been found in experiments on animals. There are also other facts that do not support the addiction theory: Coffee fans, who drink about ten cups a day, don’t increase their consumption, as we know from the heroin-addicted. The stiring up effect, coffee has still at older people, who drink coffee since decades.
After having taken a coffee, first the positive effects show themselves. When
one has drunk his third cup, the negative effects as nervousness, provoking
ness, beating of the heart or stomach problems can take over.
The story that coffee causes a stomach ulcer is today took as fairy tale. The only danger occurs at people with high coffee consumption, they have weaker bones and an easily increased risk for
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Caffeine ). The most dangerous fact one assumes is that coffee increases
the amount of cholesterolin the human body.A dangerous composition is smoking and drinking coffee. “Many people use the coffee break as an excuse to smoke” says Wilhelm Vetter, Chief of the department of Inner Medecine at the University Hospital in Zurich.