NEWS

Acclaimed by the consumers, condemned by the doctors: this has been, for years, the contradictory attitude of the humanity towards the coffee, secular and controversial fame drink.
 
But in the last years science and medicine have discredited many commonplaces about the coffee that accused the consumption of this drink, first among all the one to be the cause of the illnesses more feared: from the heart attack to all the forms of cancer, from the defects at birth to the premature birth…
 
«In the past, the use of coffee had a political meaning: who clandestinely met for a cup of coffee was accused of plotting subversive plots, therefore they were persecuted more by the cops that by the doctors! », the professor Amleto Di Amicis says, manager of the Unit of Documentation and Nutritional Information of INRAN (National Institute of Search for the Food stuff and the Nutrition).
 
They even say that in the ‘700 king Gustavo III of Sweden, condemning two thieves, decided that the sentence had to be given through the administration of thick doses of coffee.
Not only the two convicts didn't die (even after four attempts of poisoning!), but both lived up to 83 years!
 
«When one speaks about coffee, it is very easy that reality and legend confuse each other, but what doesn't confuse anymore by now in medical-scientific limits, it is the harmful effect of this drink on the organism», Di Amicis continues.
 
«In fact everybody can see that the populations that regularly consume up to five cups a day of coffee have a meaningful increase of the expectation of life».
 
This happens because coffee has innumerable beneficent qualities:
 
1. Stimulating: it benefits the concentration, it helps in the vigilance and in the overcoming of the tiredness, and it strengthens the memory and attenuates the headache

2. Antioxidant: consumed during a meal based on food with high oxiding potential, it protects the low density lipoproteins (LDL) from the oxidation, reaction at the base of the arteriosclerosis; besides it acts on the glycolysis and on the oxidation of the fats, making them degrade more quickly: this makes quickly available energy for the physical activity

3. Co-adjuvant of the metabolism: coffee increases the energy's dispersion introduced by the diet not making it available like reserve in the form of fat

4. Anorectic: coffee doesn't bring calories (a cup without milk or sugar either is not more than two calories); also, by its thermo-genetic activity and the most rapid use of the fats, coffee helps to keep the ideal weight

5. Protective for some liver pathology (cirrhosis and bilious calculosis).
Coffee is a real ally of health! Let's drink it.

Source: National Institute of Search for the Food stuff and the Nutrition

CURIOSITY
For many centuries it was diffused the conviction that coffee was only an exciting and strengthening food; the Bedouins thought even that it fought against the thirst, so that, crushing and mixing the coffee berries with some fat, they got some breads to eat during the trips in the desert and before the battles.

THE IDEA...
The Arabs were the first ones (around the year 1000 AD) to have the idea to make coffee in dust (after having roasted it) and add some warm water to get the drink that we know today.