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| CoffeeNews| 07/28 | Health: Unfiltertered Coffee and Espresso increase Cholesterol
If have trouble with your cholesterol or want to avoid high cholesterol and watch your health you might want to rethink your coffee or espresso drinking habits. Researchers recently found why unfiltered or cooked coffee and espresso are responsible for higher cholesterol in drinkers.The liver is normally responsible for making a substance that keeps your cholesterol under control. In unfiltered coffee a substance called cafestol is present that let’s the liver believe it doesn’t need to make it’s cholesterol filtering substance any more. In paper-filtered coffee the cafestol is filtered out and only present in very low concentrations. Still, if you are having problems with cholesterol you mi | | 06/19 | Health: Coffee and/or Caffeine Factor in Heart Disease
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the western world, and heart disease is the number one global killer. Is 1 + 1 = 2?The latest research may have found a link. Researchers looked at the stifness of arteries of non, low, middle and high coffee drinkers. And the results were not good. “We have shown that caffeine acutely increases aortic stiffness and wave reflections,” "Which may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease," they conclude.June 2005 issue of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, (Vol. 81, No. 6, 1307-1312). |
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