I’m pretty sure that the extra stuff people add to it are most likely worse than the coffee is.
James Hoffmann recently released an interesting video over this. https://youtu.be/rABfboy0h6o
I don’t think its bad for you, in moderation. And depends how you take coffee. Black vs milk and sugar etc
Short version: yes. As long as sugar and other junk isn’t added. Generally any intake of coffee has benefits over none; and 3-4 cups a day of coffee seemingly the sweet spot. Coffee intake should be minimal/none if pregnant. More studies are still needed on the topic.
Here’s a meta analysis (review of many studies) from the British Medical Association. I removed some wording to shorten their conclusion. https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5024
Coffee consumption was more often associated with benefit than harm for a range of health outcomes […] with summary estimates indicating largest relative risk reduction at intakes of three to four cups a day versus none, including all cause mortality (relative risk 0.83, 95% confidence interval 0.83 to 0.88), cardiovascular mortality (0.81, 0.72 to 0.90), and cardiovascular disease (0.85, 0.80 to 0.90). High versus low consumption was associated with an 18% lower risk of incident cancer (0.82, 0.74 to 0.89). Consumption was also associated with a lower risk of several specific cancers and neurological, metabolic, and liver conditions. Harmful associations were largely nullified by adequate adjustment for smoking, except in pregnancy […] There was also an association between coffee drinking and risk of fracture in women but not in men.
“Alle Dinge sind Gift, und nichts ist ohne Gift; allein die Dosis macht, dass ein Ding kein Gift ist.” All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison. —Paracelsus, 1538. wiki
My understanding (mirrored by this article) is that the primary concern is the additives such as sugar and cream and caffeine. So if you drink it black and don’t go overboard with the amount it looks neutral to slightly positive. The comment about using a paper filter is new to me and slightly unwelcome news as a French press user though. Though a quick peek elsewhere (here) suggests that as long as you have healthy cholesterol levels to not be *too *worried about it.
Parkinson’s runs in my family so I actually try to drink at least 3-4 servings a day. Totally black and at least two are espresso pulls so the caffeine per serving is less. It seems like every other week there are conflicting studies. This week, coffee is good. 😀 And not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I tend to be a little bit skeptical about how most of the studies regarding dietary cholesterol are designed anyway. It is famously difficult to accurately track and control nutritional studies. I’m fortunate to have low cholesterol anyway, but if it’s a concern, the compounds thought to raise cholesterol are in the extracted oils so a paper filter takes most of them out. Only about 10% of my coffee is paper filtered, so if I stop posting here, you know what happened…
Anecdotal, but I’ve heard that coffee drinkers are more resistant to radiation poisoning than non-drinkers.
Please don’t take me at my word and handle spent reactor rods after chugging an espresso.
brb chugging a nice cup of expresso and then eating a radiated taco
I specifically said… never mind. Bon appetit.
