Posted on 08/03/2015 10:19:36 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Dropping coffee from your diet could reduce the risk of heart disease by as much as 15 per cent, according to a study.
Britons spend £850million a year on coffee. But experts suggest it can raise levels of cholesterol and homo-cysteine in the blood - both associated with heart disease and strokes.
There has been concern about the possible dangers of unfiltered coffee for some time but the more widelyconsumed filtered coffee has generally been given a clean bill of health.
The latest study suggests there may be a link between even filtered coffee and cardiovascular disease.
The team, led by Dr Benedicte Christensen of the Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo, concluded that compounds in coffee called terpenoids - which are only partially removed by filtering - were responsible for raising the heart disease risk.
Writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition today, they say abstaining from average amounts of coffee may lower the concentrations of both tHcy (total homocysteine) and total cholesterol.
Dr Christensen stud-ied a group of 183 Norwegian men and women, aged 24 to 69. Cholesterol and tHcy levels went down in those subjects who abstained from coffee.
Those who usually have an average of four cups of coffee per day could reduce their cholesterol-related risk of heart disease by 15 per cent and homocysteinerelated risk by ten per cent, the scientists say.
The conclusions were disputed, however, by Catherine Collins, chief dietician at St George's Hospital in London.
She said: 'If you're drinking six or ten cups of coffee a day, or if you are an elderly person with a history of heart disease or high cholesterol, you might want to think about moderating your intake. But I am not convinced it is a major problem.'
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Since marijuana is going to be legal, the government union members need another “controlled substance” to save us from...out of work AGW scientists will need grants to prove it’s a “gateway drug”...and the media needs to make money with PSAs and after-school specials showing Jimmy taking a sip of coffee, going berserk and killing his family, commercials telling men it takes away their sex drive and makes them grow boobs...etc etc etc /s
"Why filter coffee is bad for you IF YOU DRINK six or ten cups of coffee a day"
You’re going to die.
Something will cause it.
Make quality of life choices.
Enjoy!
Is someone pissed at coffee growers?
LIKE!!!!!!!
First, they come after our coffee. THEN they come after our CHOCOLATE. Revolution follows!
If you have high blood pressure, cut out coffee.
When I go to the Doc I refrain from having coffee since just putting a blood pressure cuff on me at a Docs office raises my pulse and blood pressure.
Coffee is known to raise BP by 5 points.
I’m through with Starsucks.
Ooooooooo yea!
Breaking News: Mortality Rate Stubbornly Persists at 100.0%
Also, makes it harder (vein wise) in blood tests, I hear.
My blood pressure never goes much over 100/70, my resting heart rate is about 30...with coffee. Big guy in good health.
BTW, Zenjitsu: Fuhuquan/EPKenpo here ;)
My spouse’s male Norwegian relatives, the ones who emigrated here, painted houses in Brooklyn and Long Island (yes, I know Brooklyn is ON Long Island - )
were found to be on ladders, painting away, with a CUP OF COFFEE IN THE OTHER HAND - - -
it is best not to live your life listening to govt and govt-funded ‘experts’. there is a lot of research you can do on your own.
i sugest the documentary “fat head” that exposes the dietary lies we have been fed the last 40+ years. the guy who pushed the lipid hypothesis did the exact same thing as the global warming hoaxers did.
it is out on huluplus and also youtube.
Breaking Cappucino.
I never started, LOL.
But I sure wish I thought up the idea.
Incredibly profitable.
Filtered coffee?? The liquid only?
Unfiltered?? —— drinking the liquid AND the grounds?
So, coffee is bad for you...today.
I smoke my coffee in a bong.
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