Italian Andrea starts his day with a cup of aromatic cappuccino, and in the afternoon easily drinks four more servings of espresso.  In his homeland, coffee is simply idolized and they say "thank you" to the Pope.  He, having tasted the coffee, said: "This drink is blessed by God and me."

 Drinking a shot of espresso is a whole ritual.  Run into a bar for a couple of minutes for a coffee break, have a few words with a barista - and the day sparkled with new colors.  But such small moments of pleasure were questioned by doctors.  For many years they told us: coffee is dangerous for the heart.  And here is new scientific evidence: this drink, on the contrary, is good for blood vessels thanks to polyphenols.

 “Caffeine will excite the heart, but there are polyphenols that relieve inflammation from the vascular link.  2 "Andrey Kondrakhin.

 All the same polyphenols improve intestinal motility, increase the production of gastric juice, so that after coffee, food is digested better.  Dry mouth is caused by the tannins in this drink, but a few sips of water will clear it up.  But milk will help with heartburn after coffee.

 "Milk proteins bind to coffee acids and thus reduce this effect on the stomach," says Olga Simonenko, a nutritionist and biotechnology engineer.

 There is a caffeine intake rate of 400 micrograms per day.  There are approximately 80 micrograms of caffeine in one cup of espresso.  So you can have five small espressos a day, like in Italy.  These are two standard cups that we are used to drinking in Russia.  But the benefits of coffee depend not only on the amount drunk, but also on the brewing method.  Norwegian scientists say that it is most beneficial to drink filter coffee when hot water quickly and once passes through the filter layer.  The easiest way to prepare it at home.

 "We put a funnel, take a filter - disposable filters, pour coffee, pour boiling water, everything flows into a mug. And we enjoy," Alena Solominskaya demonstrates.

 She's a real coffee man.  Subtracted that the same polyphenols are destroyed by prolonged exposure to high temperatures: there are practically none of them in the drink from the coffee machine.  Now the girl passes the ground coffee through an ordinary funnel with a filter, although the taste of such coffee is less intense than from the coffee machine.

 By the way, sugar and various syrups add calories to coffee, and, on the contrary, reduce the beneficial properties.  Better to drink just one drink without everything.  Thanks to theanine and chlorogenic acid, coffee produces the hormone of joy - dopamine.  So the right coffee is the key to a good day.

Drink coffee to your health!

Sincerely, Lyubov Sultanova.