Tuesday 15 December 2009

[Week XI] Argumentative Essay: Beyond the Pleasure of Coffee


As we all know, coffee is one of the most popular drink in the whole world that has been founded many years ago. It was so famous until we notice the name of coffee break in many formal occasions. At that time, people are taking break to enjoy some cookies while drinking a cup of coffee. While in everyday life, coffee is often made as breakfast companion. Yet, we seldom observe what benefits or negative effects of coffee for our health which at most that we know that after we consume coffee, it will refresh our body and lost the sense of sleepiness. But before we enjoy the euphemism of coffee, let us look what’s behind it.

First of all, According to the medical analysis, there some xatin chemical compounds contained in coffee. This compound derivative includes caffeine, theophylline, and teobromin in chocolate. Among these chemical compounds, caffeine appears to cause stimulation of the central nervous system (brain), respiratory system, and the system of blood vessels and heart. That is why no wonder every drink coffee in a reasonable amount (1-3 cups), our body will feel refreshed, excited, think faster, and not easily get tired or sleepy. These positive impacts make people hard to get rid of drinking coffee. However, those benefits do not apply to someone whose have a job that requires precision, neatness, and accuracy of counting, such as mathematics, drawing or painting. On the other hand, coffee is more appropriate for those who study the social sciences or memorizing. You can drink it about half to one hour before you begin to study or memorize.
Caffeine also caused a number of health problem such as the increase of the risk of Parkinson`s disease, the increase of anxiety, heart rate, stress, stomach hindrance, disrupted sleep and breathing problem for infants, and caffeine dependence syndrome. The general characteristic of coffee addiction is fatigue or tired, not enthusiastic, and sleepy all the time if not drinking coffee for one day. The reasonable amount of drinking coffee is 85-200 mg or 1-3 cups of coffee. However, drinking coffee on 250 mg at once can cause health problems, such as heart beats faster, anxiety, insomnia (difficulty of sleeping), nervous tremor (shaking hands), and even nausea to vomiting.

Secondly, drinking coffee is also dangerous for people that suffer hypertension (high blood pressure) because the chemical compound contained on coffee could cause the blood pressure increased rapidly. Beside of that, coffee could also increase the bloodstream to the kidney which causes the increase of urine productivity. So, it is no wonder that when you just finished a cup of coffee, you would feel the urge to urinate. Coffee could also caused osteoporosis, where calcium will released from the urination. Five milligrams of calcium lost for every six ounces coffee consumed. Yet, this lost of calcium can be overcome by consuming 2 spoon of milk or make espresso latte. Mixing coffee with alcohol is also not good especially with people who have live disorder and coffee with cream mixture should also be avoided the excessive calories.

Last but not the least, the caffeine contained in coffee could increase the risk of heart disease. Although it is still not clear how the amino acid essential could interfere our heart, it has proved that this substances often injuries in various layers of the arteries and then it become a place for fat acid and calcium stacks. This result can shift of the blood vessel walls (arterioklerosis). Because of that it would be better to not drinking coffee, especially for those who have a high risk of heart disease. Even if it must, it would be better for us to drink only one or three cups a day (the standard for the European is 3 to 5 cups a day). It also not before going to bed.

Overall, it is true that coffee was really enjoyable for us to consume it regularly. But despite of all of the pleasure of drinking coffee, there are bad many impacts that we might have even not instantly felt by us. Many people are aware of these bad impacts, however it would not stop them to drink coffee because they are already addicted of it. Drinking coffee sufficiently would not harm our health, but it always good to be aware of things that would impact us because of coffee.

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