Caffeine = Cholesterol,

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Caffeine = Cholesterol JoAnn Guest Jul 24, 2003 14:35 PDT

CAFFEINE-CHOLESTEROL CONNECTION

 

Study Conclusions:

 

Coffee drinkers who quit drinking coffee

decreased their blood levels of cholesterol and homocysteine,

according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical

Nutrition.

 

--Filtered coffee drinkers who abstained from drinking coffee

showed a 10% decrease in homocysteine levels after 6 weeks.

 

--Cholesterol levels in this group dropped by 0.28 millimoles per

liter, less than in previous studies that looked at levels in

drinkers of unfiltered coffee.

 

--Terpenoids--

are naturally occurring organic compounds found in coffee

grounds and are known to increase cholesterol levels.

Researchers report that the findings indicate that these terpenoids are

only partly removed by coffee filters.

 

Dangerous chemicals are used in the production of coffee:

poisonous herbicide and pesticide sprays in its cultivation,

petroleum-based solvents in its decafination and other chemicals in

making it instant;

in addition, the oils in coffee easily go rancid once it is

ground.

 

Coffee drinkers are at risk of developing specific diseases.

Women who consume coffee on top of a high-fat diet have a larger risk of

mammary and bladder cancer.

 

Coffee consumption during pregnancy increases the rate of miscarriages

and birth defects.

 

Coffee intake has been shown to be directly related to pancreatic cancer

and heart attack- the more coffee consumed,

the greater the likelihood of these conditions.

 

Even moderate coffee drinking of two daily cups or more

raises cholesterol.

 

The acid in coffee eats away the villi of the small intestine,

reducing their effectiveness in supporting nutrient assimilation.

 

Most heavy coffee drinkers are deficient in calcium and other

minerals.Thus the acids in coffee may cause as many problems as the

caffeine.

 

To aid in restoring a coffee-ravaged small intestine, use

nettle leaf tea, two or more cups daily for at least six weeks.

 

Reporting in the July/August issue of " Psychosomatic Medicine " ,

studies found that people had higher blood

pressure levels,produced 32% more of the stress hormone

epinephrine,

and felt more stressed on days when they took a

caffeine-containing pill or drank numerous cups of coffee.

 

In an interview with Reuters Health, Lane said that the effects of

caffeine likely persist in the body because the substance takes a

long time to deteriorate.

 

More specifically, caffeine has a " half-life " of an average of 4 hours,

meaning that however much caffeine

you consume, it will take your body 4 hours to rid itself of half

that amount.And 4 hours later, your body will contain only one-

quarter of the original amount.

Consequently, 12 hours after consuming caffeine your body still contains

one-eighth of what you initially drank.

 

 

 

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Caffeine Boots Stress Levels- Study JoAnn Guest Jul 24, 2003 13:41 PDT

Coffee Acutely Increases Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Blood

Pressure

 

---This comes from the American Heart Association.

Coffee Acutely Increases Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Blood

Pressure Independently of Caffeine Content.

 

Role of Habitual Versus Nonhabitual Drinking

Roberto Corti MD*, Christian Binggeli MD, Isabella Sudano MD, Lukas

Spieker MD, Edgar Hänseler MD, Frank Ruschitzka MD, William F.

Chaplin PhD, Thomas F. Lüscher MD, and Georg Noll MD

From the CardioVascular Center, Cardiology (R.C., C.B., I.S., L.S.,

F.R., T.F.L., G.N.) and Department of Clinical Chemistry (E.H.),

University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland; and the Department of

Psychology (W.F.C.), St John's University, New York, NY.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:

roberto-@D...

 

Background—

Coffee is the most abundantly consumed stimulant

worldwide. However, its cardiovascular safety remains controversial.

 

Possible health hazards have been related to its main ingredient,

caffeine. Activation of the sympathetic nervous system by coffee may

enhance cardiovascular risk; however, it is unclear whether this

effect of coffee is related to caffeine or other substance(s) also

contained in decaffeinated coffee.

 

Methods and Results—

In 15 healthy volunteers (6 habitual and 9

nonhabitual coffee drinkers) arterial blood pressure (BP), heart

rate, and muscle sympathetic nervous activity (MSA) were continuously

recorded before and after drinking a triple espresso or a decaffeinated

triple espresso or after intravenous administration of caffeine (250 mg)

or placebo (saline) in the same subjects. There was a significant time x

condition interaction for the intravenous

caffeine and placebo conditions for MSA, with caffeine showing a

significant increase in MSA at 60 minutes (53.2±14.1% total activity)

and the placebo group showing no effect.

 

A similar significant time effect was found for coffee drinking

(54.1±22.5% total activity). Habitual and nonhabitual coffee drinkers

demonstrated similar changes in MSA and BP after intravenous caffeine.

 

Nonhabitual coffee drinkers showed similar activation of MSA and BP

after caffeine infusion, coffee, or decaffeinated coffee.

 

Conclusions—

 

Acutely, coffee and caffeine induced comparable

increases in MSA and BP in nonhabitual coffee drinkers

 

Because decaffeinated coffee also increases BP

and MSA in nonhabitual drinkers, ingredients other than caffeine must be

responsible for cardiovascular activation.

 

 

 

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