{"id":118756,"date":"2024-10-26T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118756"},"modified":"2024-10-26T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:58:11","slug":"is-drinking-coffee-good-for-you-a-skeptical-look-at-the-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118756","title":{"rendered":"Is drinking coffee good for you? A skeptical look at the studies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"112\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2p4r567003gwum2vdtker1b@published\">We love to think that our vices are secretly good for us\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/diet-and-nutrition-pictures\/delicious-reasons-to-eat-dark-chocolate.aspx\">that chocolate is healthy<\/a> (even dark chocolate is very sugary), that red wine is something of an elixir (<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2023\/04\/alcohol-wine-drinking-healthy-dangerous-study.html\">nope<\/a>), and, most recently, that coffee can keep diseases at bay. Dozens of headlines have been talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-71426-y\">this study<\/a>, which found an association between moderate coffee intake and a reduced risk of dementia; another study published in September <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/17\/health\/caffeine-heart-health-study-wellness\/index.html\">led to articles<\/a> about how coffee is good for your heart. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.14169\">tiny study<\/a> also made news in August for showing that a higher intake of caffeine was very vaguely associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease in a cohort of 263 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"112\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2p4rz6x000q3b72but4cybe@published\">I\u2019ve been writing about this issue\u2014the idea that coffee might have some wonderful health benefits\u2014 for <a href=\"https:\/\/gidmk.medium.com\/drinking-coffee-still-wont-save-your-life-9e4d45ba7087\">nearly a decade now<\/a>, and more research comes out but the bottom line never really changes. In these studies, the authors have typically taken a large (or not so large) database of people who have been asked a range of questions about what they eat and drink. One or two of those questions usually includes asking how much coffee they have each day. Those people have then been followed up with for years. The researchers look at whether this self-reported coffee intake at the start of the study is associated with the future risk of disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"133\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2p4rz80000r3b726k4nx3y7@published\">The problem is that this sort of study has a lot of weaknesses. People are <em>terrible <\/em>at reporting how much they eat and drink. Notoriously terrible. There are hundreds of scientific studies showing this. People\u2019s reports <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/8172998\/\">vary by season<\/a>, depend on <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jnci\/article\/103\/14\/1086\/2516431\">how much they\u2019ve<em> recently<\/em> eaten<\/a>, differ depending on <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/aje\/article-abstract\/158\/1\/14\/173489?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">which foods<\/a> they are asked to talk about. An occasional survey is generally just not a good basis for knowing how much people eat each day. (Can you remember what you ate last week? What about the week before?). Unfortunately, we have no other practical methods for getting this information, so these large studies are forced to accept that, even with complex statistical corrections, they may <em>not <\/em>be properly measuring how much coffee people drink. Just how much coffee people would <em>estimate<\/em> they drink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"120\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2p4rz94000s3b72jl6uzoab@published\">These studies also give us limited information about cause and effect. We can say with quite a bit of certainty that (self-reported) moderate coffee drinking\u2014usually defined as about two to three cups a day\u2014is <em>associated<\/em> with better health than drinking no coffee or drinking a very large amount of it. But, even taking the self-reported data at face value, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that coffee <em>causes<\/em> better health. In many of these studies, the design is simply not robust enough to give us useful data on whether coffee is causing benefits or it\u2019s simply that people who drink a moderate amount of coffee are on average a bit healthier in lots of ways than people who drink none or loads.<\/p>\n<aside data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/in-article-recirc\/instances\/cm2p4r567003iwum2phhp65rq@published\" class=\"in-article-recirc\" data-via=\"article-inline_recirc-section-technology\">\n<ol class=\"in-article-recirc__list\">\n<li class=\"in-article-recirc__item\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2024\/10\/afind-a-grave-ancestry-family-grandfather-controversy.html\" class=\"in-article-recirc__link\"><\/p>\n<p>            During the Vietnam War, a Mysterious American Had a Baby With My Grandmother\u2014and Vanished. I Found Out the Real Story Decades Later.<br \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"in-article-recirc__item\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2024\/10\/mcdonalds-trump-e-coli-quarter-pounder-onions-fda-recall.html\" class=\"in-article-recirc__link\"><\/p>\n<p>            Uh, Should You Worry About McDonald\u2019s Because of the Whole <em>E. Coli<\/em> Thing?<br \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"in-article-recirc__item\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2024\/10\/gold-prices-record-breaking-investing-stock-market-crypto.html\" class=\"in-article-recirc__link\"><\/p>\n<p>            Forget Meme Stocks\u2014Gold Is Going to the Moon<br \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"in-article-recirc__item\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2024\/10\/research-coffee-health-benefits-skeptical.html\" class=\"in-article-recirc__link\"><\/p>\n<p>            Recent Research Suggested That Coffee Is Good for You. Well, Bad News About That.<br \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"76\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2p4rza7000t3b72pg1bkqmn@published\">We do have some interventional studies looking at coffee and a range of health outcomes. These are studies where people are given coffee or a placebo and then followed up after a few weeks to see what\u2019s happened to their health. But large reviews analysing these interventions <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/jhypertension\/abstract\/2012\/12000\/the_effect_of_coffee_consumption_on_blood_pressure.1.aspx\">have failed<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/nutritionreviews\/article-abstract\/82\/8\/1046\/7255958?login=false\">find benefits<\/a> (or harms) for heart health. There is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/jhn.12033\">some suggestion<\/a> of short-term harm for people with diabetes, although this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2225411018300014\">partially contested<\/a> by other research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"68\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2p4rzba000u3b72rv0eycsz@published\">So: We can say with some certainty that people who drink a few cups of coffee a day are on average quite healthy. What we can\u2019t say with any confidence is whether the coffee is making a difference or if there are other factors involved. When we actually give coffee to people in controlled clinical settings, there\u2019s not much evidence that it has a benefit to their health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"73\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2p4rzce000v3b723o5comrw@published\">Personally, I find this news relieving. Why? Well, there\u2019s not much data showing that coffee has health benefits, but there\u2019s also no data showing that it has health harms. Indeed, if you look at the entire gamut of scientific investigation into coffee as a whole, what you tend to see is that in moderate quantities, coffee is basically neutral, and for every possible detriment, there is a possible benefit to balance it out.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"recirc-line\" data-via=\"recirc-line\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/recirc-line\/instances\/cm2p4r567003hwum2sqjeyaif@published\">\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2024\/10\/asteroid-earth-ring-evolution-dinosaurs-extinction.html\" class=\"recirc-line__content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"recirc-line__img\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=140\" width=\"141\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=320 320w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=480 480w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=600 600w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=840 840w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=960 960w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1280 1280w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1440 1440w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1600 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1920 1920w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/5c2b0f13-1d23-4397-8525-3e5ee2fb4c1e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=2200 2200w\" sizes=\"auto, 141px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"recirc-line__byline\">Riley Black<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"recirc-line__promoline\">A Fascinating Theory About a Ring of Asteroids Around Earth Has Some Wild Implications for Evolution<\/h3>\n<p>        <b class=\"slate-link--bold recirc-line__read-more\">Read More<\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"89\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2p4rzdr000w3b7209cx74cz@published\">My opinion, as an expert who drinks a lot of coffee and has a strong vested interest in this question, is that there really doesn\u2019t seem to be any health reasons to either drink or avoid coffee. There\u2019s certainly evidence that a <em>lot<\/em> of coffee is bad for you, and if you\u2019re breaking eight\u00a0to 10 cups a day\u2014in this case, a cup is defined as a standard eight ounce\u00a0serving in most studies\u2014you might want to cut back. At a minimum, that much coffee is likely to affect your sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"45\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2p4rzeu000x3b72bphwajfj@published\">But if you don\u2019t drink coffee, there\u2019s really no need to start unless you want to. It\u2019s probably not going to affect your health much either way, so don\u2019t worry about it. 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