When we get our teeth cleaned, we are always told that coffee stains your teeth and you need to routinely get your teeth cleaned and polish the dark stain off of our teeth.Then we are told that a cup of coffee a day is good for us. Sometimes coffee is good for us and sometimes it is bad for us. Does it just depend on who makes the statement and if there is a full moon or not.
Well, it's a bit simpler than that. It appears that the difference is dependent on the diterpenes. Terpenes are one of the most structurally diverse groups of natural products found in nature. In plants they serve as roles in plant defense and communication, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
Unfiltered coffee increases coronary heart disease
Apparently, the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada has done studies showing that diterpenes present in unfiltered coffee and caffeine each appear to increase risk of coronary heart disease.
Caffeinated coffee increases blood pressure
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition does not separate the good and the bad coffee between the non-filtered and the filtered, but rather states that caffeine and caffeinated coffee have been shown to acutely increase blood pressure and thereby to pose a health threat to persons with cardiovascular disease risk.
Unfiltered coffee elevates cholesterol
Literature from the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Pennsylvania State University indicates a strong relationship between boiled, unfiltered coffee consumption and elevated cholesterol levels, in addition to the risk of coronary heart disease. Studies of this nature are continually done because coffee is very heavily consumed in the whole world. Unfiltered coffee is also very heavily consumed. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition associates unfiltered coffee as coffee made with a french press where the diterpenes are removed by filtering the coffee.
Coffee lowers risk of diabetes
Just so you don't get too discouraged, one prospective epidemiologic study found that consumption of coffee was followed by lower diabetes risk. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition posted an article commenting that it is possible that caffeine and other constituents of coffee, such as chlorogenic acid and quinides, are involved in causing weight loss.
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