Coffee: It Pros And Cons 
Coffee is as popular as Micheal Jackson in almost every home especially in the dawn. It’s no wonder so many people associate mornings with the smell of fresh coffee. But nothing comes without at least having two sides just like a talking drum. Coffee have its positive and non-positive side too. Let’s examine the pros and cons of coffee.
Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It has the highest sales in the world market for hot drinks.
The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking in the form of the modern beverage appears in modern-day Yemen from the mid-15th century in Sufi shrines, it was there coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed in a way synonymous to today’s method of making coffee.
The Yemenis procured the Seeds of the Coffea plant’s fruits are separated to produce unroasted green coffee beans. The beans are roasted and then ground into fine particles that are typically steeped in hot water before being filtered out, producing a cup of coffee. It is usually served hot, although chilled or iced coffee is common. Sugar, sugar substitutes, milk, and cream are often used to sweetened the bitter taste or enhance the flavor of coffee.
Caffeine is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about coffee. It seems to be the heart and soul of coffee. Caffeine is a bitter substance that occurs naturally in more than 60 plants including:
Coffee beans
Tea leaves
Kola nuts, which are used to flavor soft drink colas
Cacao pods, which are used to make chocolate products
Caffeine is a stimulant, which means it increases activity in the brain and nervous system.
It also increases the circulation of chemicals such as cortisol and adrenaline in the body.
Coffee also helps to treat type 2 diabetes which is the most common form of diabetes. It occurs when blood sugar levels rise due to issues with how the body uses or produces insulin( Insulin is a hormone that regulates the movement of blood glucose, or sugar, into cells, which use it as energy.)
But too much of coffee can have side effects such as:
BONE FRACTURES
Some studies have suggested that women who drink a lot of coffee may have a higher risk of bone fractures. Men with a higher coffee intake, on the other hand, appear to have a slightly lower risk.
COMPLICATIONS DURING PREGNANCY
Coffee consumption may also not be safe during pregnancy. In fact, there is some evidence to suggest a link between high coffee consumption and pregnancy loss, low birth weight, and preterm birth.
ANXIETY
Consuming high amounts of caffeine may increase the risk of anxiety, especially among people with panic disorder or social anxiety disorder. Less commonly, caffeine may trigger mania and psychosis in those who are susceptible.
The best time to drink coffee is thought to be 9:30–11:30 a.m. when most people’s cortisol level is lower. Whether this is true, remains to be determined. Caffeine can increase cortisol, but the long-term health implications of this are unknown yet.
Here is an extract from Rauwolff’s description of Tripoli in Lebanon:
“A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time.”
Coffee is obviously good with a lot of health benefits but excess of it can not be as good as you thought.
Written By Ayodele Toyosi A Student Of I-con Universal Polytechnic, Osogbo.
