It's Not the Coffee, It's the Cream

Good news for coffee drinkers (especially oldster coffee drinkers like me) - a new study shows no connection between coffee drinking and coronary heart disease.  From NewsfactorMagazine Online:

Data on more than 120,000 participants in two U.S. studies that followed people for as long as two decades found no link between heart disease and a daily intake of six or more cups of coffee. In fact, the risk was the same as for people who had less than one cup of coffee or tea a month.

How-some-ever, the study doesn't apply to french press coffee.  "Studies have consistently shown that drinking a lot of French-press coffee increases low-density lipoprotein, the bad cholesterol,"  says van Dam, research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a co-author of the report.

Uh oh.

And of course, if you like those fatty coffee-ish drinks then you're asking for cholesterol trouble.

I guess the answer is ... drink espresso, and drink it black!

Comments

[ffxiv gil]

As my cholesterol was a little high last time it was checked, I quit using cream and now use 1%, not as good as cream but better than nothing.

[Adhocreporter]

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[keewee]

As my cholesterol was a little high last time it was checked, I quit using cream and now use 1%, not as good as cream but better than nothing.

[Nancy]

I guess the answer is ... drink espresso, and drink it black!

Can we say *ulcer*? :-) I used to enjoy my coffee black and strong years ago, but find Inow have to use a little bit of cream or it does bother my stomach.

Coffee should be a food group! ;-)

[Merries]

Is it very odd that I always feel stomach empty after drinking blak coffee?