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Your might not know that the earliest ones to find the good taste of coffee is a group of sheeps! The shepherd found that when the sheeps had eaten a kind of red fruit on the tree, they would become energetic and cry and jump around. The shepherd then reported this phenomenon to the priest. After the priest had investigated and tried to eat this kind of red fruit, the priest then found that this kind of red fruit is able to make people to be so energetic and exciting, and the taste is also very delicious. As a result, coffee then became popular in Arabia, and it then being passed on to Turkey, Europe, America, and Asia. Nowadays, coffee has become one of the most important drinks for modern people.
As indicated by the investigations of modern medical science: Some nutrients contained in coffee are protein, carbohydrate, fat, water, fibre, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, and potassium. Furthermore, coffee also contains some beneficial ingredients, which are caffeine, tannic acid, and alkaloid that are good to the health of human body. The amount of caffeine in coffee is about 2 to 3 times more than the amount of caffeine in tea, which is such an energizing and exciting substance. The rich aroma of coffee has made many people to become fascinated. Also during the making of coffee, people can enjoy the leisure and eased atmosphere, coffee can even make people to ease the mood, reduce the pressure, and achieving the goal of relieving tiredness. Furthermore, coffee's special ingredients can also have the following beneficial effects to our body:
(1) Make the brain clear and awake - The caffeine contained in coffee can stimulate the brain's central nervous system, thus make the brain clear and awake, enhance the ability of paying attention, enhance the rate of working and learning, and enhance the agility when doing exercises.
(2) Accelerate the decomposition of fat - Caffeine is able to accelerate the decomposition of fat, contribute to the metabolism of the body and make more calories to be used.
(3) Help digestion - Caffeine is able to stimulate the sympathetic nerve and enhance the secretion of gastric juice.
(4) Enhance the elimination of urine - Caffeine is able to facilitate the elimination of urine and increase the amount of urine eliminated.
(5) Prevent depression - A little amount of coffee is able to make people energetic and exciting, and make the mood delightful while relieve the mood of depression.
(6) Increase the cholesterol that is beneficial to human body - Caffeine is able to increase the cholesterol that is of high density (HDL), and accelerate the metabolism of cholesterol that is not good to human body. Thus the chance of suffering from arteriosclerosis is reduced.
(7) Prevent heart and blood vessel related diseases - The acid contained in coffee is able to dissolve the solidified blood and prevent the process of thrombus. It is also able to enhance the systole of blood vessels, and prevent the headache that is due to the diastole of blood vessels.
(8) Prevent asthma - Caffeine is able facilitate the sympathetic nerve to become exciting and inhibit the auxiliary sympathetic nerve to function. Which is able to prevent asthma from happening due to the excitement functioned by the auxiliary sympathetic nerve.
(This article is translated from the original Chinese article from the Health Report website
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http://home.kimo.com.tw/candy4433/ga052.htm )