Recent Research Suggested That Coffee Is Good For You. Well, Bad News About That. – CoffeeTalk

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Coffee has been linked to various health benefits, such as a reduced risk of dementia, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. However, these studies have limitations due to people’s poor reporting of their food intake and the lack of practical methods for measuring this information. Large studies often focus on self-reported coffee intake, but these studies often give limited information about cause and effect.

While moderate coffee drinking, usually two to three cups a day, is associated with better health than no coffee or a large amount of it, it doesn’t necessarily mean that coffee causes better health. The design of these studies is not robust enough to provide useful data on whether coffee is causing benefits or if it’s simply that people who drink a moderate amount of coffee are on average healthier in many ways than those who drink none or loads.

Interventional studies have also been conducted to examine coffee and various health outcomes, but large reviews have failed to find benefits or harms for heart health. There is some suggestion of short-term harm for people with diabetes, although this is partially contested by other research.

In general, people who drink a few cups of coffee a day are generally quite healthy, but there’s no evidence showing that coffee has health benefits or health harms. In moderate quantities, coffee is generally neutral, and for every possible detriment, there is a possible benefit to balance it out.

As an expert who drinks a lot of coffee and has a strong vested interest in this question, there really isn’t seem to be any health reasons to either drink or avoid coffee. There’s certainly evidence that a lot of coffee is bad for you, and if you’re breaking eight to 10 cups a day, you might want to cut back. At a minimum, that much coffee is likely to affect your sleep.

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