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With well over 200 Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks and other types of coffee shops in Nassau County, it’s unusual that the issue of the negative way coffee affects the body isn’t addressed more often.

There have been recent studies done showing that coffee may have good effects on the brain but what about the rest of the body?

Caffeine is a stimulant sometimes used to treat headaches. It’s also addictive and it allows your body over time to become dependent on it. The caffeine in coffee is what causes the most concern. A study done and published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology showed that coffee increases the chances of men having strokes.

Samantha Kaufman, an employee at Starbucks Coffee, said that “people who come into the store multiple times a day don’t realize the health risk…wow, I didn’t even realize them!”

She said that regulars who come into the coffee shop are normally the ones who ask for the double shots of espresso. This adds a lot more caffeine to your beverage which is where the risk of your health becomes a little bit more threatened.

The American Dietetic Association met and discussed the issue of drinking too much coffee. Within that, they discussed how studies have been done showing that drinking more that three cups of coffee a day can affect a woman’s fertility. It can also increase a pregnant woman’s chance of early delivery. Lastly they also discussed that studies are currently being done testing whether coffee causes birth defects.

Nassau County holds countless numbers of coffee shops and people more than willing to use them. Hofstra University is located in Nassau County where students study hard and drink plenty of coffee for those rough nights of studying and hard mornings of class.

Dewayne Whitaker, a student at Hofstra University, said he used to average 5-6 cups of coffee a day. “I began to have stomach aches and I became very irritable whenever I didn’t drink my necessary amount of coffee per day,” Whitaker said.

Related Links

• This site allowed me to search for all of the Dunkin Donuts locations in Nassau County. This is worth reading if you are looking for a DD location.
  
• This link allows individual calculation of the type and amount of coffee a person drinks then gives the nutritional facts.
  
• This is another site that shows in detail nutritional facts about coffee. This site is great for an in depth breakdown of nutritional facts.
  
• This site shows evidence of coffee being related to strokes. This is another great article to read about some of the negative effects of coffee.
  
• This link is an article that talks about how studies have shown that women who drink more than three cups of coffee a day can affect a woman’s fertility and if she will deliver early. This site is also great for finding more information about a risk that you could be facing.
• This site shows negative and positive effects of coffee. This site gives a fair outlook on drinking coffee and its effects.

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