Friday, December 26, 2008

High Blood Pressure and Coffee - Are the Two Related?

By Christian Goodman

It's no surprise to my friends and family that I pride myself on living a healthy lifestyle. This is why, I suppose only half-joking, that they refer to my daily Grande coffee from Starbucks as my "vice."

A good friend recently stated that her doctor had told her she had to quit drinking coffee due to her hypertention (high blood pressure).

Watch out? My friend was telling me this quite literally, as she was exhaling cigarette smoke. Did her doctor mention that this behavior is far more than a contributor to high blood pressure.

Quite likely, my friend's doctor stressed to her that her weight and smoking habits were contributing to her high blood pressure. Why then did he mention coffee?

As of this post, there have been no studies to support evidence that there is a link between drinking coffee and hypertention.

Studies I've seen published have shown an a temporary increase in blood pressure after drinking coffee but the increase is not significant.

What some studies have shown is that coffee can temporarily raise blood pressure but that is all. In fact, studies have also shown that over time, this temporary increase in blood pressure is reduced.

Researchers are starting to notice that the reason coffee is so often associated with the actual contributors to hypertension (cigarettes, and obesity) is because many people tend to combine drinking coffee with these bad behaviors.

No. Rather, the studies have shown that people associate the negative lifestyle (cigarettes, over-eating) with drinking coffee. My same friend has foregone her cigarette break if she doesn't have coffee, indicating that the cigarette, "Just doesn't taste the same."

While I'm always excited to read about amazing results from people who've given up coffee and reduced their blood pressure, I'm even more interested in knowing what other bad behaviors where dropped when these people gave up coffee.

What I can say is that if you know that coffee is your trigger to indulging in other, proven contributors to high blood pressure and you truly can't do one without the other, then yes, perhaps you should consider switching to a beverage that you don't associate with these bad behaviors.

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