Caffeine -so many people just can not live without it. It is like a drug for many ....and in pregnancy it is not a healthy thing.
Caffeine constricts the blood vessels, and that includes the ones to the placenta. So your baby can be deprived from enough blood rich oxygen.
How much caffeine is too much? Many suggest that anything over 200 mgs/daily is too much. Here is a idea of how much caffeine there is in a few products:
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Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2000
So you can see how easy it is to get too much caffeine from just two cups of coffee!
Remember it takes your baby longer to remove the caffeine from their small body, than your body does, so by consuming 2 or more cups of coffee a day, or 5 cans of soda-your baby will just be getting the former days caffeine out of its system and a new day will begin. Then it starts all over again, will that little precious baby ever be able to catch up? No. Not at that rate.
"Pregnant women who drank the equivalent of at least two cups of coffee daily, or five cans of a soft drink with caffeine, were twice as likely to miscarry as women who consumed no caffeine, found results of the study reported online in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology". 1.
So what about decaffeinated?
There are 5 different methods used to
decaffeinate coffee. (that I have found)
decaffeinate coffee. (that I have found)
1. The Swiss method -using water extraction
2. Chemical removal-using ethyl acetate
3. Chemical removal-using methylene chloride
4. carbon dioxide
5. Sparkling water process
Swiss Method: This is the process where they remove up to 99% of the caffeine from the beans via washing the beans in a water solution. The process takes about 12 hours. They start with soaking the green coffee beans in hot water, then remove the beans, throwing away the first batch, and use the water to do the next batch the same way. they then use activated carbon filters to remove the caffeine, and using the dame water (so more flavor in the next beans) they continue this batch to batch.
Ethyl Acetate and Methylene chloride: The direct method is when they soak the beans in the chemical and the indirect method is using water in the total process.
Indirect: first soak the beans in the water which removes the caffeine and flavors, then using one of the chemicals to infuse the flavor back into the beans. (yuk!)
Ethyl Acetate method - most sites say this is something that occurs naturally in fruit -like bananas and apples, but when you google it, this is one of the links that comes up-
Ethyl Acetate..
Indirect: first soak the beans in the water which removes the caffeine and flavors, then using one of the chemicals to infuse the flavor back into the beans. (yuk!)
Ethyl Acetate method - most sites say this is something that occurs naturally in fruit -like bananas and apples, but when you google it, this is one of the links that comes up-
Ethyl Acetate..
Methylene chloride..
These links do make me wonder, and a bit more research is needed. (you should be looking stuff up yourself too!)
These links do make me wonder, and a bit more research is needed. (you should be looking stuff up yourself too!)
Co2 method: They soften the beans, thenpressure cook the beans in this gas. The caffeine is then removed from the gas. The caffeine is removed via activated carbon filters which they also re-use in the next batch of beans.
Sparkling water process: This is like the co2 method, except the caffeine is not removed using the activated carbon filters, but instead using sparkling water. The sparkling water solution is about 98% co2. (not too sparkling in my opinion!)
Side effects of drinking decaf coffee.
2. Acid reflex.
3. Increase risk of heart attacks
4. Increased risk of higher cholesterol
5. Increased risk of osteoporosis
6. Increased risk of rheumatiod arthritis
7. Increased risk of glaucoma
8. Increased risk of cancer
9. Increased risk of organ damage
2. All of the other links are within the article, just click on one of the above links. Also if you want more information, google it! If you really want to know, there is a lot of information out there available for you to read and do your own research.
So my opinion? I think that 1 at the most 2 small cups of coffee a day is -ok. Just ok. Better to go without any caffeine at all!
Pop is not a good substitute-due to the high fructose corn syrup (and diet pop is NOT healthy at all). But in my opinion, decaf coffee is not the best -health wise. (also many people will drink more than 2 cups of decaf coffee and with the small amount of caffeine in decaf, it will often equal up to the caffeine cups anyway!) So go ahead, enjoy your coffee --have 1-- 8 ounce cup of good quality coffee, and enjoy it.
In the afternoon, enjoy a cup of herbal tea instead of more coffee!
Hint about coffee:::- reheating coffee in the microwave is NOT healthy-it changes the acidity in the coffee, and microwaves are NOT totally safe anyway...
So my opinion? I think that 1 at the most 2 small cups of coffee a day is -ok. Just ok. Better to go without any caffeine at all!
Pop is not a good substitute-due to the high fructose corn syrup (and diet pop is NOT healthy at all). But in my opinion, decaf coffee is not the best -health wise. (also many people will drink more than 2 cups of decaf coffee and with the small amount of caffeine in decaf, it will often equal up to the caffeine cups anyway!) So go ahead, enjoy your coffee --have 1-- 8 ounce cup of good quality coffee, and enjoy it.
In the afternoon, enjoy a cup of herbal tea instead of more coffee!
Hint about coffee:::- reheating coffee in the microwave is NOT healthy-it changes the acidity in the coffee, and microwaves are NOT totally safe anyway...
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