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If you increase the amount of fruits and vegetables in your diet, you will also lower your blood pressure. Coffee contains caffeine which is a stimulant and can cause your blood vessels to contract and increase your blood pressure. However, this amount is small, and may or may not be significant.
CONS: Coffee drinkers who have more than three cups a day may increase their risk of heart attack, a U.S. study in 2006 found. âAfter around three cups of coffee, your heart will beat noticeably faster, raising blood pressure slightly,â explains Dr Schenker. And bizarrely, drinking just three cups of a coffee a day may make some womenâs breasts shrink, according to researchers from Lund University in Stockholm.