Coffee - Is it "Really" Good
for You?
Have you heard the news? Coffee has antioxidants! Antioxidants
have been studied to a great extent. The evidence indicates
that antioxidants can potentially delay the aging process
as well as protect the body against the development of age-related
diseases.
If you read any medical articles that relate to these studies
and you are not in the field of medicine, most likely you
will get lost inside the information. This is where a problem
in believing that certain foods containing antioxidants are
good for you begins.
A very interesting study was conducted regarding coffee beans
and the antioxidant benefits that could be obtained when consumed.
The article was very lengthy and had a great deal of medical
terms and references in it. What the results proved was that
although antioxidants did exist in coffee, when the beans
were heated and processed, the benefits that can be obtained
when drinking it are diminished.
This is easier to understand when you can consider how the
testing was done.
Using lab rats to test the effects of the antioxidants in
coffee is misleading. Especially when the coffee was not simply
ground up and processed in the normal human fashion where
we place the grounds into a coffee pot and run hot water over
it resulting in a pot of hot liquid which is of course coffee.
The testing in the labs involved breaking down the coffee
bean into different parts. For instance, the skin was removed
from the coffee bean and tested as to the amount of antioxidants
it contained.
Why would they do this you might ask?
Well, the skin is where the highest amount of antioxidants
can be found. Yet, we have to ask the question, "Who
drinks just the skin of the coffee bean?"
Another problem with thinking any positive results meant
that coffee is good for us is the fact that after coffee is
brewed, it looses a great deal of the antioxidants through
the heating process.
After testing coffee in various forms and breaking it up
into several different components, at the very end of an extremely
long description of medically challenging terms and data,
it became clear that the lab test did not in fact prove coffee
to have any antioxidant benefits when consumed as a hot stimulating
drink.
In fact at the end of this article the bottom line was that
there was no proof at all that coffee was good for us due
to any substantial amount of antioxidants after the brewing
process.
So, the bottom line here is...
Rumors can start very fast and become thought of as fact
if we do not do our own research.
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Author: Eric Choong
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