People who consumed 200 to 300 milligrams of caffeine a day were less likely to develop coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes or stroke.
There are certain studies that coffee lovers, well, love.
This is one of them: Drinking several cups of caffeinated coffee or tea a day may protect against Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke.
The findings, published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, add to existing research suggesting that daily coffee drinkers have better heart health than nondrinkers — provided they don’t drink too much caffeine.
I wonder how much of this is correlation vs causation. For instance, if you can afford a couple cups of coffee a day (time and money) perhaps you’re just more well off in general. Coffee might be a bad example in this case because it’s pretty low cost (wines a better example), but my point remains.
I wonder about causation from a different angle. I only drink decaf and don’t do any caffeine specifically because I know I’m at a higher risk for heart disease and caffeine has triggered cardiac episodes for me before.
Coffee isn’t expensive or time consuming. I pay about $7 for 12oz of ground coffee, and it lasts for at least a couple weeks’ worth of brewing an 8-cup pot of fresh coffee every morning.
I suppose if you pay someone else to make your coffee it would cost more, but that would be a massive waste of money to do on a regular basis.
i take caffeine pills, i need the caffeine, but if i had to sit down and drink a whole cup of liquid, i find that i just don’t, i’m sure i could find the time for it but i don’t
My comment was less on the specifics (cost/time) and more on causation vs correlation. See Sop’s comment for a much better potential cause. I agree, the cost/time is a weak argument.