Why+Is+Coffee+Bad+For+You?

Courtney Chaffee, Jami Derderian, and Sabrina Spiver

While most people think coffee is good for them, it is bad for the body in many ways. Coffee is the daily liquid that seems to get all humans moving in the morning. If this information is correct then coffee is not the best thing to drink. Many questions came to mind. Is coffee actually bad? What is really in coffee? How is coffee processed? Does it affect human health? This information maybe surprising, but it is also true.

Coffee has many different ingredients. The main ingredient in coffee is caffeine. Caffeine is a drug that is natural product in the leaves and seeds of many plants. Caffeine is in the following products: tea, coffee, chocolate, many soft drink, and also pain relievers. Caffeine increases mental alertness as said by many people. Coffee is processed by coffee trees that take 3-5 years to produce their fruit. Coffee trees require special attention to, soil, light and climate to produce a quality harvest. Dry processing is a centuries old method. In which the harvest beans are laid out in the sun to dry for about 15 days or so. That is how coffee is processed these days.

Most people believe that coffee is healthy for their body. Coffee is also followed with one main negative affect. The negative affect in coffee is it can cause anti-cancer properties. The main two substances in coffee are that kahweal and catestol are drugs that raise people’s cholesterol. Coffee may contain chemical that lower blood sugar. Heavy coffee drinkers may be half as likely to get diabetes, as light drinkers are nondrinkers will not be able to get diabetes. Coffee may protect men, but not women from Parkinson’s disease. That’s the main worry people should look out for when they go to get their cup of coffee for the day. Does coffee really affect people’s health? Well their about to know. The caffeine in coffee works within 15 to 45 minutes when people drink it. It also lasts 2.5 to 7.5 hours. Even though coffee keeps people up it also makes them anxious, nervous, cause stomach problems, and dangerous health problems. Most people think that getting rid of caffeine is easy but takes 30 hours to get out of their systems. Water isn’t the only thing that makes them go to the bathroom caffeine does the same thing. The main problem with people is their sleep. Caffeine affects their sleep and ability to do things the next day.

As people learned about coffee they are well aware of its negative and positive affects. As people drink this addicting drug they will realize that it is bad for them and their health. Now what is people’s decision about drinking coffee?

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 * January 25, 2010.**