Researchers Get the Long Secret of the Age of Greek Coffee
Jakarta, Who sich who does not want long and healthy? Unfortunately not many know the right secret to get it. With the same motivation, a group of researchers also try to look at the life of the population of some of the longest-lived people in the world who live in Greece ie Ikaria Island people to obtain their longevity secrets. As was written in advance, the island community is registered to have the longest age in the world. On average, every person who lives on the island is reaching 100 years. From there the researchers also concluded that the secret of Ikaria Island people is Greek coffee. The summary was obtained after a team of researchers led by Gerasimos Siasos, doctorate and professor of medicine from the University of Athens Medical School, Greece recruited 71 men and 71 women from Ikaria Island aged 66-91 years. to participate in their studies. In fact 87% of participants regularly drink Greek coffee with a composition of 40% coffee consumption in 'low', 48% 'medium' and 13% 'high' daily. Each participant was also asked to answer the questionnaire about lifestyle, general health condition and consuming coffee. Not only that participants also do regular health screening, including measurements of blood pressure, cholesterol content, diabetes risk tracking and the role of endothelial cells. Finally, compared to people who drink general coffee, the role of endothelial cells Greek coffee drinkers seem much better, even among people who suffer from hypertension or high blood pressure. Endothelial cells are some of the cells that make tissue called endothelium in the blood vessels. When these cells are 'healthy' so the blood vessels are also healthy, meaning it can contract and relax with normal. Differences when blood vessels 'ill' so diseases such as diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and other critical problems will also be easy to attack. In fact, no less surprising, Greek coffee in the know does not give any negative effect on the pressure of blood of people who consume them. To be sure, researchers have compared the situation of people who drink various types of coffee, including instant coffee, boiled coffee, 'cappuccino' or coffee that has been filtered. "" Greek coffee is rich in polyphenols as well as anti-oxidants and contains only caffeine content with a central content. It seems that all three have given a combination of benefits that no other coffee, "Siasos said as written emaxhealth, Thursday (21/3/2013). Not only coffee, researchers also found that people Ikaria consumption of herbal medicines, tea and honey are just on the island and not found in different places around the world, and has a low stress content. It's possible to consume some of the ingredients that make Ikaria Island a person with the longest life desire in the world. (vit / vit)