Many people start their day with a cup of aromatic strong coffee to wake up and get a boost of vivacity. And then another one for breakfast, and at lunchtime, coffee gatherings with colleagues, etc. As you know, there is medicine in a drop, poison in a spoon. So how much coffee can you drink per day so as not to harm your body?
A small amount of caffeine helps to wake up, start the metabolism, and an excess of caffeine-containing drinks, on the contrary, leads to drowsiness, headaches, and the development of hypertension. For people with diseases of the cardiovascular system, caffeine is strictly prohibited, because such drinks speed up blood circulation, increase blood pressure and increase stress on the heart.
In fact, the amount of caffeine consumed does not depend on how many cups of the drink were drunk, but on how much caffeine was in each cup. The recommended dose for a healthy person is 150-200 mg per dose. This is approximately equal to 3 teaspoons of ground coffee and two instant coffee. A day, without harm to health, you can consume 2-3 cups of strong coffee. By adding less coffee to the cup, you can increase the number of servings.
To reduce the amount of caffeine in a drink, there are some tricks, for example, the less time the ground coffee is brewed, the less caffeine will have time to pass into the drink. Coffee with milk or cream is, of course, higher in calories, but, in most cases, contains less caffeine. Such coffee is absorbed much more slowly, and caffeine is less aggressive to the body.
