An issue about CHD
Junk food elevates the attack rate of
diabetes and coronary heart disease
Minesota University in America Professor Andrew O. Odegaard
Conducting a survey of Chinese Singaporean
When having fast food more than twice in a week,
the attack rate of diabetes is 27% and the death rate
of coronary disease is elevated 56%
compared with no eating fast food at all.
The prof
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that moderate daily coffee consumption does not increase blood pressure in the long term.
2. Serum Cholesterol
Two substances found in boiled coffee, cafestol and kahweol, have been shown to raise cholesterol levels.
Cafestol suppresses bile acid synthesis.
→ suppression of bile acid synthesis may provide an explanation for the cholesterol-raising effect of cafestol in humans
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