On the Health-keeping Function of Coffee from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine
1, refresh
Let's start with the refreshing effect of coffee. According to research, drinking 100-200mg of caffeine every day is enough to refresh the mind and is harmless to the body. For office workers, the best time to drink coffee is after breakfast in the morning, when they first arrive at the office, and after lunch break, when they are ready to start busy work in the afternoon. At this time, a cup of coffee can avoid the usual drowsiness after dinner.
The study also found that, for the average person, a cup of coffee in the morning and a cup of coffee in the afternoon have the best refreshing effect. If it exceeds this amount, it will not only fail to achieve the refreshing effect, but also make people fidget.
2, strong bones and muscles, waist and knees
Caffeine can make muscles contract freely, increase tendon strength, reduce exercise valves, increase body sensitivity and improve motor function.
3, appetizing staple food
Caffeine can stimulate sympathetic nerve, stimulate gastric acid secretion in gastrointestinal tract, promote digestion, prevent bloating and gastroptosis, and promote gastrointestinal hormones and peristalsis hormones, thus quickly relieving constipation.
4. Eliminate fat and accumulation.
Caffeine can accelerate the decomposition of fat, improve the metabolic rate of the body, increase the consumption of heat energy, and help to reduce fat and tighten the skin. In addition, bathing with coffee powder is an excellent hyperthermia and helps to lose weight.
5. Li Qiao dehumidifies
Caffeine can promote renal function, expel excess sodium ions from the body, increase urine output, improve abdominal distension and edema, and help to lose weight.
Drinking coffee is good for the skin
Coffee can accelerate the metabolism of the skin, accelerate the discharge of waste keratin from the skin, and dilute the dark circles caused by poor circulation. In addition, it also has antioxidant effect. Drinking coffee regularly can keep skin cells full of vitality and prevent cell oxidation, thus fighting aging.
Drinking coffee can prevent cancer.
Polyphenols contained in coffee are strong antioxidants. Drinking coffee every day has a certain effect on cancer prevention.
The following people should not drink coffee.
1. Suffering from hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and other diseases-drinking coffee for a long time or in large quantities will cause cardiovascular diseases.
2. Older women-coffee will reduce calcium and cause osteoporosis. After menopause, women need to supplement ten times as much calcium every day.
Patients with stomach trouble-drinking too much coffee will make stomach trouble worse.
3. Pregnant women-drinking too much coffee can lead to fetal malformation or miscarriage.
4. vitamin B 1 deficiency-vitamin B 1 can keep the balance and stability of the nervous system, and coffee can destroy it.
5. Cancer patients-drinking too much coffee is dangerous for normal people.
6. Because coffee stimulates the brain too strongly, it directly affects the mental state. When coffee was first introduced to Europe in the16th century, people thought that coffee could only be drunk with a doctor's prescription. In the past four or five centuries, with the vigorous development of coffee culture, people can't live without coffee for a day, but the medical profession has suggested that the influence of coffee on the human body is not only refreshing.
Drinking too much coffee will also lead to the loss of calcium, which is a great threat to the elderly, especially middle-aged and elderly women. Two or more cups of coffee a day will increase the probability of fracture by about 50%, which is shocking. Experts believe that it is safest for the elderly to drink coffee once a day.
There may be some things you don't know about the advantages and disadvantages of coffee:
Filtering coffee will not increase cholesterol, while drinking coffee will slightly increase LDl bad cholesterol, but it will also increase HDL good cholesterol.
Coffee can stimulate about one-third of healthy people to defecate. Occasionally, when defecation is not smooth, drinking a cup of espresso will have an unexpected laxative effect.