Coffe or Tea? Where you should choose

When should choose coffee or tea, usually to be considered is the taste because they have proven equally healthy. But at certain moments, the benefits of tea or coffee can each surpass one another.

After all the content in tea and coffee is not 100 percent the same, so the choice between them should be based on many considerations beyond the affairs of taste. One of them is a goal that at the time you want to get from the drink.

Excess tea and coffee at certain times based on the benefits to be obtained are as follows, as quoted from Menshealth.com, Sunday (08/04/2012).

1. When you need to boost stamina

Caffeine in coffee and tea are equally able to boost stamina by increasing the heart rate and blood pressure. The only difference being levels, in each 200 mL of tea contains an average of 14-16 mg of caffeine in 200 mL of coffee while the caffeine content could reach an average of 95 mL.

Option: coffee, because caffeine content is higher, so the effect is stronger and faster.

2. When you want always healthy

A 2009 study showed that drinking 4 cups of coffee a day reduced the risk of type-2 diabetes by 30 percent. Other studies have shown. at least 3 cups of coffee each day can also reduce the risk of skin cancer as much as 9 percent.

However, long-term benefits of drinking tea each day also has a lot to prove, especially green tea. Antioxidant content in these drinks can strengthen the immune system, and the male is very effective in preventing prostate cancer.

Option: Both are healthy to drink every day.

3. When you need to lose weight

In general, caffeine has been shown to lower body weight and waist circumference. But specifically, a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition show that green tea every day effectively shrink the stomach as much as 3.4 cm in 12 weeks only.

Option: Tea, because of its effect in burn fat faster and make more efficient cell metabolism.

4. When the muscular body takes

If tea is more effective to burn fat, then copies the most effective form of muscle mass due to a higher caffeine content makes stimulansianya effect is getting stronger. When someone, especially men drink 2.5 cups of coffee before exercise then he can do sprints or sprint 9 percent farther.

Option: Coffee, because muscles need stimulation to work harder. The more frequently used for heavy work, muscle mass will grow.

5.When the need to improve mood

Unlike the coffee that often makes the heart pounding because high levels of caffeine, tea is better suited to relieve the strain on the nerves. Even according to the European Journal of Applied Physiology, several types of teas such as camomile and lavender tea can relieve stress and anxiety just to smell the smell alone.

Options: Tea, because the tradition in many countries such as Japan and China also has shown that the drink is best suited to complement the leisure time.

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