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Drinking coffee

Coffee is the most popular beverage in the world. It is said that 7 out of 10 people drink coffee three times or more a day. Millions of people love drinking coffee in the morning and after lunch. When you feel tired or uncomfortable, a cup of coffee could help to lift your mood. Unfortunately, Coffee has caffeine contents which are not good for our health. For this reason, some people think that drinking coffee has only harmful affects.

Some people believe that too much caffeine in the coffee is not good for our health when we drink it everyday. Caffeine in the coffee helps increase alertness and sensitivity. Your usual drink coffee consumption habits will produce the same doses of drugs like eating, causing nervousness. The tendency for anxiety, caffeine can cause sweaty-palm, palpitations, tinnitus, these symptoms worsen. After that, the excess coffee consumption can cause restlessness, insomnia, headaches, muscle tremors, gastrointestinal problems, diarrhea, and nausea. After seeing this evidence, there is no way we can agree with what they say. In fact, several studies have shown that caffeine in the coffee is not totally bad for our health but it can be good for our oral health. It can reduce asthmatic attacks. Coffee has caffeine which helps promotes good respiratory health. It also can reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease and the risk of colon cancer by 25%.

Cooperative to popular belief, drinking coffee everyday may cause heart damage. Over consumption of coffee can cause panic in heart's regular activity. It can make our heart rate go faster because coffee is a good stimulant. To a certain extent they are right but in the other side that drinking coffee is good for the heart. It contains Tannin which promotes good cardiovascular health. In contrary to known effects of coffee to the heart, coffee does not constitute highly on having cardiovascular diseases which medical practitioners had been described. Consuming a small amount of espresso coffee can benefit your heart and found no negative effect.

Some people also argue that coffee can make high blood pressure and osteoporosis. If you have hypertension, the use of large amounts of caffeine will only make you more serious. Caffeine can make blood pressure to rise. The risk of high blood pressure groups should be avoided, especially in the working pressure when drinking caffeinated drinks. A study showed that drink a cup of coffee, elevated blood pressure. The time is 12 hours. Caffeine itself has very good effect, if long-term and heavy drinking coffee causes a loss of the bone. The preservation will have an adverse impact on women, osteoporosis, may increase the threat. Large amounts of caffeine could threaten to bone. They have a point in thinking like that but Coffee has also a medical care function.  Coffee is not only loaded with caffeine, but also contains antioxidants, such as chlorogenic acid, quinines and magnesium. These antioxidants are capable of increasing the insulin sensitivity of people suffering from diabetes. It protects you from having type 2 diabetes. Coffee has natural sugar content that makes it more blood sugar friendly. It is advisable though that you put less processed sugar when preparing coffee drinks and consume in small quantities. As an active antioxidant producer, coffee also can help reduce the risk of developing certain cancers.

Having said these, drinking coffee is good for our health if we drink it in moderation. If we want to get most benefits of drinking coffee, we should remember to drink coffee not more than two to three cups of brewed coffee every day. So be sure to drink coffee beverages moderately and do not treat it as a hobby.

Possible Genetic Link to Autism Identified

A gene variation associated with an increased risk of autism in boys has been identified by scientists.

Boys are three to four times more likely than girls to be affected by autism.

In this study, U.S. researchers analyzed genomic data from more than 3,000 children with autism and their family members, as well as children without autism.

The results showed a link between a variation in the gene for transducin beta-like 1X-linked (TBL1X) and an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in boys. TBL1X is part of the Wnt-signaling pathway involved in the system that controls embryonic neurological development and the maintenance of brain function in adults.

The study is published in the Nov. 3 online edition of the journal Molecular Autism.

“The [variation] in TBL1X is associated with an increase in risk for ASD of about 15 percent. This could reflect either an unidentified rare mutation (or mutations), which has large impact, or a more common change with a more subtle effect, on the development of ASD,” study leader Eden Martin, of the Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said in a journal news release.

“Further study of TBL1X will help us to pinpoint the DNA changes involved and help us to understand exactly how these changes and the Wnt-signaling pathway is involved in ASD,” Martin added.

Autism affects about one in 110 children and can cause problems in language, communication and understanding other people’s emotional cues.