Sunday, November 22, 2009

COFFEE


The Idea that coffee is bad for your heart pops up periodically. Over the last 20 years several studies – mainly from Europe- found that regularly drinking very strong coffee could sharply increase cholesterol levels.

Researches even isolated fatlike chemicals, cofestol and kahweol responsible for the rise.It turned out that the European brewing method – boiling water sits on the coffee grounds for several minutes before straining – produces high concentration of cofestol and kahweol. By contrast, filter and percolation methods remove all but a trace of these chemical. Moreover, the studies involved larger a mounts of coffee – five to sex cups a day. Average coffee drinkers consume only two cups.

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