Are you addicted to coffee? Congratulations: you are not alone!
If there is something difficult to refuse most of us, it is the morning coffee pleasure. However, each of us has our own level of tolerance to coffee, and many of us have long since crossed this threshold. In the end, you may find that you can’t start the day without coffee.
What is so good about coffee? Energy drinks and substances also contain caffeine, and abused in the same way as coffee, but coffee in this list is “special”: because it contains not only caffeine. It also contains minerals such as magnesium and chromium, and b vitamins a Small dose of coffee can reduce the risk of liver cancer, to help cope with depression, slight constipation, and lower the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and type 2 diabetes.
So why do you need to drink less coffee? Because, like everything else, there needs to be a measure too much is a bad thing. How much is too much? Maximum recommended daily dose of caffeine is 400 milligrams. In a small Cup of coffee contains about 90 mg; caffeine in espresso more. With a great Cup of coffee, we get about 150 mg of caffeine! Drinking too much coffee leads to headaches, nervousness, depression, stomach disorders, heartburn and even chronic lack of micronutrients. If you are already suffering from these ailments or just want to give up coffee, try these tips.
1. Limit coffee consumption to 1 Cup a day for a month. Next month take away this Cup. If you drink several cups of coffee a day — it will be easy. If your dose of coffee does not exceed 1-2 cups — reduce it by half for a month.
2. Replace a Cup of regular coffee for a Cup of coffee without the caffeine. Some people are important, not the caffeine contained in coffee, and warming feeling of warmth Cup and in a good mood that coffee can bring. To such people it will come easy and perhaps you belong to this group!
3. Get enough sleep. Let your body use its own energy reserves, rather than relying on caffeine! Sleep at least 7-8 hours a day.
4. Consider why you need so much caffeine, and try to solve the problem instead of ignore it. The reason — stress, habit, low energy, peculiarities of diet, or something else? Get to it!
5. Try green tea mate. This Japanese green tea contains caffeine but compared to coffee it is very small. While it is rich in amino acid L-theanine, which may help the body to reduce stress and even balance blood sugar. Mate makes you more energetic, but it does not cause insomnia like coffee!
6. Try new drinks. Focus on the positive aspects of breaking a bad habit: it is an opportunity to try something new! For example, smoothies or protein shakes.
7. Try the roasted cocoa beans. They contain no caffeine, no sugar, no fat, and while they have a deep, warming taste, not inferior to coffee! Can try a mixture of 1 part coffee and 1 part of roasted cocoa beans as the basis for a new drink.
8. Reduce the intake of caffeine in principle. It contains not only in coffee! Among the sources of caffeine — tea, energy drinks and chocolate. When caffeine in the body ends, you naturally are trying to restore the “peak” of caffeine in the body. This can lead to dependence on coffee, and additional sources of caffeine can only stir it, so cut them together with the consumption of coffee!
