James Hoffmann recently released an interesting video over this. https://youtu.be/rABfboy0h6o
What a timely and excellent video. He put that Copilot sponsor money into some sets and production value.
I don’t think its bad for you, in moderation. And depends how you take coffee. Black vs milk and sugar etc
I’m pretty sure that the extra stuff people add to it are most likely worse than the coffee is.
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. In general, we don’t have the highest quality studies for coffee/health because it’s really hard to have a double-blinded study. Most are just observational and retrospective in nature. 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…
It seems like every other week there are conflicting studies.
Quite a bit of science reporting is straight up bad and tends to muddy the waters in the search of digestibility and clickability. When you can get your hands on the actual studies you’ll often find something like, “Large doses of caffeine in mice increased the incidence of seizures by 3.2%.” was turned into “Coffee gives you seizures!” then the next year an observational study on coffee consumption doesn’t find a statistically significant correlation between it and seizures and it gets turned into, “Coffee won’t give you seizures!” This is not to say that you don’t encounter dueling studies, invalidated studies, or reversals in scientific understanding but how stuff gets reported is just prone to cause whiplash.
Caffeine can have some negative consequences. The book Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker has a lot to say on this. But coffee itself has some pretty good properties, nutritionally speaking. Like it’s pretty good to have in your dietary rotation but if you’re drinking a pot a day, or after lunchtime you should read up on the drawbacks to that kind of caffeine intake.
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.
