A cup of a day keeps experts arguing<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Nothing goes down the throat with greater
\nsatisfaction than that early morning cup of aromatic coffee.<\/p>\n
It was the Dutch East India Company that introduced the
\nAfrican bean to Java. And since the advent of 17th century, Java
\nhas remained a coffee plantation giant and a massive exporter of
\nthe beans.<\/p>\n
Now health conscious people are looking at their cups of java
\nwith contempt.<\/p>\n
The cholesterol maniacs all over the world first renounced
\nbacon, then eggs, cream, buttered toast and doughnuts and now
\nit's coffee under severe indictment for hiking your cholesterol
\nlevel.<\/p>\n
However don't retire your coffee mug just yet. Although one
\ngroup of researchers implicates it as a potential suspect,
\nanother exonerates it.<\/p>\n
In 1983 (as reported by Consumer Reports 1991) the Tromso
\nHeart study of some 14,000 Norwegians found that cholesterol
\nlevels of heavy coffee drinkers, those that consume more than
\nnine cups a day, were 14 percent higher then those who drank one
\ncup a day.<\/p>\n
In 1992 U.S. researchers in the multi center Hypertension and
\nFollow up Program reported a similar trend in 9,000 Americans.
\nHowever the cholesterol count was not so alarming. It was higher
\nin the low coffee consumers by only three percent.<\/p>\n
More good news for coffee lovers is a study conducted by the
\nFramingham Heart University that evaluated more than 6,000 people
\nover a period of 20 years. They declared no consistent
\nassociation between the two Cs -- coffee and cholesterol.<\/p>\n
However top Indonesian medical consultants advise drinking
\nless coffee or using drip filtered only. Dr. Sawhney, a
\npractitioner in Cleveland who visited Jakarta in June strongly
\nrecommends in all his seminars and workshops, "You know you have
\nto start being careful, if you drink more than five cups of
\ncoffee in a day or if you have other risk factors for coronary
\ndisease, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking or a
\nfamily history of heart attack before the age of 55."<\/p>\n
So feeling perfectly safe with my once-a-day cuppa, I plan to
\nrelish it with a vengeance. Every morning when my face is given a
\nnatural steaming as I sip from that piping hot mug as it
\ntantalizes my nostrils, I do not think about the cardiovascular
\nor high cholesterol demons that might have potential associations
\nwith coffee consumers. Some things in life are just too good to
\nworry about.<\/p>\n
-Pavan Kapoor<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/a-cup-of-a-day-keeps-experts-arguing-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }