Health Wise

However, the strong, smooth, aromatic smell of coffee could be more beneficial to your senses than you think. All this talk of how Coffee is bad for you may not be true. We all crave that cup of hot creamy coffee when we are feeling less energised. Daily Mail states "according to a study, it may be the aroma rather than the coffee itself that does the trick." (12 June, 2008)  Drinking coffee is one thing, smelling coffee is a whole new level...


There are many theories about how coffee really affects your health. The debate is continuous and the search for the 'correct' answer may never be found. Although new studies are beginning to pick up health benefits, such as curbing memory loss, lowering risk of diabetes and heart disease and of course keeping you alert, nothing can steer us away from the negatives many of us experience from too much coffee. Anxiety leading to panic attacks, nausea leading to vomiting and head aches, dehydration and most of all addiction. If these side affects are disturbing us on a daily basis surley these negatives out-weigh positives we are still not certain on.


Although I wrote earlier how addiction versus genetic factors there are still the health issues of coffee addiction,leading to 'coffee intoxication'. CBS news provides information of high statistics on coffee intoxication.
"A recently-released report from University of Massachusetts Medical School noted 4,600 caffeine-related calls to the American Association of Poison Control Centers in 2005, the most recent data available. More than half involved people under 19, and 2345 required treatment in a health care facility." (11 February, 2009) 


Poisioning yourself from the amount of coffee you are consuming is definetly a health risk. This goes back to the negatives out-weighing the positives. This again cannot be justified. If this was alcohol, poisioning yourself would not be tolerated and help would be activated straight away. This should be the case with coffee, consuming it is damaging.