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Defeat Dizziness With Coffee

farmeric October 3rd, 2010

While coffee presents risks for people with high blood-pressure, it can be a big help on certain short-term situations.

Here’s an example. You eat dinner, then stand up from the table and feel lightheaded or dizzy.

It’s fairly common occurrence because your blood pressure drops after meals. This low blood pressure, or hypotension, may even cause you to faint.

Luckily, there’s a simple solution. Drink a cup of coffee or tea right after your meal, and the caffeine will boost your blood pressure just enough to prevent these potentially dangerous symptoms.

Exercising does the same thing, and a post-meal stroll is a good way for younger people to ward off a temporary drop in blood pressure.

But if you’re older, your best bet is to drink a caffeinated beverage first. Once you feel stable on your feet, then go for a walk.

Tags: coffee, high blood pressure

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The morning of our childhood always began with a steaming hot, aromatic cup of coffee. Freshly brewed, barako coffee harvested, dried, and ground right in our home.

No one bothered to ask why we, children as tender as five or six years old, were allowed to drink the wicked brew so early in the day, and that early in our life. In Batangas, coffee-drinking is a daily, sometimes hourly, habit way of life, shared by entire families at breakfast, or at any time of night and day.

We drank coffee as we ate a breakfast of fried rice and dried fish before dashing off to school. We’d dunk our pandesal into it till the bread went soggy and unrecognizable but seductively delicious to our young taste.