Is coffee bad for you?
Is coffee bad for you? For over 50 percent of Americans, a day is not a day if it is not started drinking a cup of coffee. For some it is a habit and others it is just something they truly love. It is true that coffee does serve some benefits such as decreasing diabetes, but the negatives of drinking coffee far outweigh the benefits.
Piling on the Pounds: When is a coffee equivalent to an entire meal … or even an entire day’s worth of calories? When it’s one of the 40 unhealthiest coffees brewed. Just check out this list of coffees and their caloric content that the Daily Beast published: The Daily Beast Media Gallery. For some people, to eat and lose weight means just cutting back on their coffee dosage can cause them to lose all the weight they could want. Now, want to throw in a donut with that 1,190-calorie ice blended triple chocolate mocha?
Bad Moods: Caffeine essentially wakes the brain up, helping a person get through the day. After the caffeine wears off, however, it may have a depressive effect on a person’s mood. Daily coffee ingestion contributes to irritability, difficulty concentrating, subtle levels of disorganization, clumsiness, and forgetfulness. As the day progresses, 3 or more cups later, a heavy fatigue sets in by mid to late afternoon. You may be good after drinking coffee, but you will soon collapse after the caffeine wears off.
Poor Health: Caffeine causes a number of health problems including, but not limited to, sleep and anxiety disorders, elevated risks of Parkinson’s disease, elevated heart beat and stress, breathing problems in infants, and caffeine dependency syndrome. It is important to drink caffeinated beverages in moderation. Because coffee is a diuretic it can cause people to become dehydrated; a lack of fluid in an individual’s body causes constipation. Coffee’s as bad or worse, than nicotine and alcohol. It causes heartburn, excess gas, bloating ulcers, and it is terrible for your digestion. Drinking coffee increases your risk of getting ulcers by 72%!
Destroys your Looks: Besides packing on the pounds, drinking coffee over a period of time can stain a person’s teeth. Like nicotine, drinking coffee over an extended period of time can lead to cavities and yellowing of the teeth.
Instead of that cup of coffee and possibly a sweet roll for your breakfast, what’s a good pick-up in the morning? What would be a real good way to start the day? Did you know that fresh fruit is a real good pick-up?
So, what kind of fruit would be good to start the day? Any of your favorite fruits that are in season and can grow where you are at the time. Now, if you’re in an area where fruit is not grown or you’re getting towards that time of year where local fresh fruit is getting scarcer to come by, eat the kind of fruit that will ripen after it’s picked. Practically all fruit is picked green to ship and most fruits will not ripen after they’re picked, rendering little or no value to you whatsoever.
Here are a few fruits that will ripen after they’re picked:
- Golden Delicious apples
- Apricots
- Bananas
- Guava
- Mangoes
- Papaya
- Pears
- Persimmons
- Pineapples
- Plums
- Pomegranates
- Avocados
- Cactus fruit
Fruits that will not ripen after they’re picked are:
- All apples (except the Golden Delicious and Gravenstein)
- All berries
- Cherries
- Citrus fruits
- Figs
- Grapes
- Melons
- Nectarines
- Peaches
If you still want to have a cup of coffee during the day, have it around 2:30 or 3:00 pm. Maybe once or twice a week, instead of the coffee and donuts/sweet rolls or colas and candy bars, try your favorite fruit. This will be a quantum leap for your nutrition education and your body will reward you highly for it.
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