Be Healthy with Coffee

Caffeine content of coffee could not be separated from health issues, ranging from negative to positive ones. Therefore, research on coffee still continues today. As quoted in the Livestrong, consuming coffee properly will provide benefits to health.
For those of you who like to enjoy a coffee, here are some of the benefits of coffee that you may not know.

Coffee and Stroke
As media reports of  "Los Angeles Times" a number of researches conducted between 2008 and 2011 found that coffee could reduce stroke risk. While other studies in Finland, 2008 showed that as many as 26 thousand male smokers who drank eight or more cups a day, had 23 percent lower risk of stroke, compared with male smokers who avoid caffeine.

In 2009, researchers at UCLA examined the relationship between coffee consumption and risk of stroke among nine thousand participants of national health and nutrition survey. The research team reported that patients with stroke are highest in people who do not consume coffee, and lowest in the coffee drinkers.

Published in "Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health" 2011 shows 81 thousand men and women in Japan who drank two cups of coffee per day reduced the risk of death from heart disease by 23 percent.

Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease is a neurological disorder that affects movement and speech. In neurons contain a neurotransmitter called dopamine which causes this disease. The loss of dopamine can lead to imbalances of neurotransmitters, causing a person becomes slurred speech and difficulty moving. Therefore, the role of coffee in order to prevent Parkinson's disease is really significant.

Researchers at the University Honolulu learn as much as 8004 the Japanese and American men aged over 30 years, reported that men who do not drink coffee were five times more likely to develop symptoms of Parkinson's disease, than those who drank coffee only about 500 mg per day.

Eric H. Chudler, MD, of the University of Washington suggest that coffee contains chemicals that can inhibit adenosine receptors. Adenonsin receptor blocking can increase dopamine production. Unfortunately, coffee does not have the same protective effect in women, said Alberto Ascherio in "American Journal of Epidemiology, 2004."

Miscarriage and fetal growth
According to R Barker, author of the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition" saying that coffee consumption in pregnant women do have a bad effect. Dutch study in 2010 found that women who consumed coffee during pregnancy gave birth to her baby are shorter than average length. In "European Journal of Epidemiology," found a high incidence of miscarriage and birth of babies who died in pregnant women because it consumes more than 100 mg of coffee daily.