OtherPapers.com - Other Term Papers and Free Essays
Search

Coffee and Diet

Essay by   •  January 21, 2012  •  Essay  •  1,477 Words (6 Pages)  •  1,440 Views

Essay Preview: Coffee and Diet

Report this essay
Page 1 of 6

Coffee and diet

Coffee by itself can be used to lose fat, but also it has side effects that are very harmful for people who addicted the coffee. In addition, it plays a big role in the economy and agriculture and also in the lifestyle for many people. People can see only the good side or the benefits of drinking coffee but they are ignoring the bad side or the risks of drinking it.

Coffee is made from the plant called caffeine. "Caffeine is a plant that is been around since 600 BC but was first really put into use in 900 BC. In 1100, the first coffee trees were cultivated on the Arabian Peninsula where they were boiled by the Arabs to make a drink called qahwa. In 1450, the love for coffee started to spread through Yemen and the rest of the Arabian Peninsula. Over the centuries, this plant has shaped our economy into the shape of a coffee bean" (Wikipedia contributors, ''Coffee''). This is the history of caffeine and it shows us the importance of the small seed like caffeine on the human life because it looks like many people drink coffee a long time ago. It also shows that coffee is loved and well-known drink for even the old people since 900 BC. As we can see these days that coffee is also important for the economy for many centuries.

In the morning, most people drinks cup of coffee, cup of tea or even a can of soda. It all has caffeine. Nowadays, people can't start their morning without having cup of coffee. In Egypt, we as workers can work without having drinks but it is much different here in United States because people can't start their day without having caffeine even if it is energy drinks. There are a lot of people especially the young ages that drink those little bottles called energy drinks or 5-hours energy. Instead of these things, other people who work in the early morning, they drink black coffee to just start the day. So, coffee is an important drink in the US culture. Coffee works good to wake them up during their day. Also, people who make diet drink coffee but they just change the ingredients. They put diet sugar instead of the regular sugar, choose low fat milk instead of the regular milk, and don't drink it with whip cream. They think that all of these components go with their diet system. It looks like those people are losing their weight but actually what they are losing is water in their body, not fat. They are essentially dehydrating themselves, which can cause numerous problems. Coffee itself is a diuretic and it absorbs the fluids in the body. It also absorbs the water from the person's body that drinks too much coffee during the day.

On the other hand, coffee by itself can be used to lose fat but it also may be addicted when people cannot live without drinking cup of coffee. When people are getting up at 6 in the morning and going to bed after 12 at night, they need something to get through the day. For those who make diet, there are many fat loss supplements at the nutrition store where the primary ingredient is caffeine. So, drinking cup of coffee or two through the day doesn't affect their diet. But, if people drink more than 2 cups, they will be addicted for coffee. Coffee, which has caffeine, may slightly boost weight loss or prevent weight gain, but there is no sound evidence that increased caffeine consumption results in significant or permanents weight loss. Actually, most of people drink coffee just because it's stimulant drink not for losing weight.

Caffeine plant shaped our economy into the shape of a coffee bean. Coffee plays a big role in the economy and agriculture of many countries. Caffeine is important for the world because of the lifestyle we live these days. There are a lot of coffee shop especially Starbucks in the USA. A lot of people take more than 3 or 4 cups every day to just make them relaxing and getting them up during the day. Probably the government has some benefits from a coffee shop like Starbucks and that will make the economy going up. That's because there is at least one Starbucks in each city in the US. And the government benefits are the tax that people pay in each cup of coffee. Businesses like Starbucks will make the economy growing up because of the amount

...

...

Download as:   txt (8.2 Kb)   pdf (106.5 Kb)   docx (11.5 Kb)  
Continue for 5 more pages »
Only available on OtherPapers.com