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If you are among the millions of people who drink coffee, you've likely seen news

reports in recent years implying the brew could damage health. But now the jury is pretty much in,and the news is looking food. Here are the latest findings on what coffee does to the body and mind.

The idea that coffee is bad for your heart pops up periodically. Over the last 20 years several studies mainly from Europe-found

that regularly drinking very strong coffee could sharply increase cholesterol levels. Researchers even isolated fatlike chemicals, cafestol and kahweol,responsible for the

rise.

It turned out that the European brewing method-boiling water sits on the coffee

grounds for several minutes before staining-produces high concentrations of cafestol and kahweol. By contrast,filter and percolation methods remove all but a trace of these chemicals. Moreover, the studies involved large amounts of coffee-drinkers down only two cups.

Research has also shown that regular, moderate coffee drinking does not dangerously raise blood pressure. And studies have failed to substantiate fears that coffee might trigger abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) in healthy people.

'For heart disease, I think the issue is closed,'says Meir Stampfer, an epidemiologist at Harvard who has studied many aspects of coffee and health. 'Coffee drinking at reasonable levels is unrelated to heart risk.'

Evidence suggests that coffee may help fend off Parkinson's disease. A 30-year study of 8,000 Japanese American men found that avid coffee drinkers had one-fifth the risk of those who didn't drink the brew.

Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston found indirect evidence that

caffeine - the habit-forming stimulant in coffee may actually combat Parkinson's. The caffeine seemed to protect mice brain cells from depletion of the nerve chemical dopamine - the problem causing Parkinson's in humans.

However, these are preliminary findings; human studies have not consistently supported caffeine's protective role.A Canadian analysis of five studies on coffee and miscarriage concluded that pregnant women who drank the caffeine equivalent of two cups of coffee a day had 36 per cent more miscarriages than women who drank less than that.

질문 1: 커피와 콜레스테롤의 연관성을 제시하고, 커피를 어떻게 해서 마실 경우 안전한지 말하세요.

답: 매우 강한 커피를 규칙적으로 마시면 콜레스테롤 수치를 증가시키지만,필터로 정제한 커피를 하루에 2잔 정도 마시는 것은 심장에 해를 주지 않습니다.

질문2: 커피와 파킨슨병의 상관 관계를 말하고,그 병에 대한 커피의 작용을 말하세요

답: 커피를 마시는 사람은 마시지 않은 사람들보다 파킨슨병에 걸릴 확률이 5배 정도 적습니다.

쥐의 실험에서 카페인은 뇌 세포 신경화학물질(도파민)이 감소하는 것을 막아 줌으로써 파킨슨병에 걸릴 확률을 낮춰줍니다. 하지만 사람에 대한 임상실험은 아직 검증 중입니다.

질문 3: 커피와 태아 유산과의 관계를 말하세요.

답: 하루에 커피 2잔분에 상응하는 카페인을 섭취하는 경우 그렇게 하지 않는 산모보다 유산할 확률이 36% 정도 더 높습니다.

입력시간: 2002. 05.14. 09:20