Studies show that coffee is good for the heart

For the doctor and researcher Luiz Antonio Machado César, from the Heart Institute - Incor, Clinical Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo - USP, coffee does not harm health if taken in moderate amounts and usual meaning up to four cups per day. It assesses the effects of coffee on variables involving the cardiovascular system to know the effects of alcohol in blood pressure and heart patients who already have coronary diseases and states that according to recent studies, there isn't evidence that coffee is bad for people with heart problems.
Studies are being conducted in the Coffee & Heart Unit installed on Incor, through a partnership with the Coffee Research Consortium, coordinated by Embrapa Café The survey examined the behaviour of more than one hundred people through different series of tests made periodically with patients who drank coffee. According to the doctor, the results show that drinking coffee does not hurt. "The light roast coffee has a slight tendency to increase blood pressure. Already coffee roasting dark caused no change in pressure. There was a slight increase in bad cholesterol and also in good cholesterol. It was also observed that after drinking coffee, people usually could walk over the carpet, "he said. The research also will study
effects of decaffeinated coffee and espresso.
The investigator to explain the past, a large number of cardiologists believed that caffeine coffee had only, ignoring the beverage also contains higher amounts of minerals (4.2%), chlorogenic acids and quinídeos (2-4%), niacin or vitamin PP (B3
or nicotinic acid) (1%) in addition to caffeine (1.2%) and hundreds of volatile oils responsible for the smell and taste of the beverage.
Today, evidence show that drinking coffee may be beneficial to health. Serious research concluded that caffeine and chlorogenic acid induce the individual to respond better to its own insulin.
Source: Globo Rural