Make Coffee High Blood Pressure?

A cup of coffee will usually accompany you start the day at the office. Or, in the afternoon when the body has begun to fatigue and brain concentrations need to remain inflated. But you are still holding the coffee drinking habits are generally often wonder, is it true coffee cause headaches? Is it true that coffee addictive?

To answer the curiosity of fans of coffee, Prof. Dr. Deddy Muchtadi, MS, Head of the Department of Food Science and Technology FATETA, IPB, provide exposure to about myths and facts about coffee.

Myth:

1. Drinking coffee can cause addiction
World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that coffee is not addictive or is addictive. So far there is no evidence that caffeine can cause serious addiction like drug abuse.

Caffeine in coffee is often referred to as an opiate (addiction) is a compound of GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) by the USFDA since 1958. Caffeine consumption is safe for adults up to 400 mg per day.

Caffeine can help us to keep awake, because it eliminates fatigue and sleepiness. Caffeine can also improve mood, and enhance concentration. That is why the average coffee consumed by those who worked overtime, facing a deadline, or are facing a series of exams.

2. Drinking coffee could make bone loss (osteoporosis)
In 1994, a commission adviser NIH (National Institutes of Health), USA concluded that caffeine is often called can cause bone loss will not affect the absorption or excretion of calcium in the body.

As long as you consume caffeine in moderation (three cups a day), will not affect the density (strength) and bone mineral content. Thus you will not be affected bone loss.

3. Drinking coffee can make high blood pressure (hypertension)
Caffeine is not excessive (limit consumption of 400 mg per day) will not cause chronic hypertension. Those who are sensitive to caffeine may experience increased blood pressure for some time alone.

Caffeine also will not cause heart disease. USA National Research Council found no link between coffee consumption with risk of coronary heart disease.

4. Coffee does not contain nutrients
In one cup of coffee (237 g) there is water content (235 g), energy (2 kcal), iron (0.02 mg), magnesium (7 mg), phosphorus (7 mg), potassium (116 mg), fluoride (215 mg) and caffeine (95 mg).

Even the coffee is also shown to contain phenolic acids (chlorogenic and kafeat) that serves as an antioxidant that can eliminate the negative effects of free radicals. You know, if not prevented from free radicals can cause degenerative diseases. In Japan, coffee is used as the primary source of aktioksidan.

Of caffeine to survive in our bodies will make us awake during:

Adults: 3-5 hours, infants under 6 months: 24 hours, pregnant women: 7-8 hours, smokers: 2-3 hours. Breastfeeding mothers are not allowed to drink coffee because it can affect the baby.