Do you have to drink 3 cups of coffee to get the latest health benefits or is say, 1.5 or 2 just as good??

[a kennedy]

Last edited Wed Sep 18, 2024, 09:58 AM - Edit history (2)

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A morning cup of coffee may do more than just perk you up, according to new research.

Moderate amounts of caffeine intake — defined as one to three cups of coffee or tea a day — were associated with a lower risk of developing cardiometabolic multimorbidity, said the study’s lead author, Dr. Chaofu Ke, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Soochow University in Suzhou, China.

Cardiometabolic multimorbidity, or CM, is the coexistence of at least two cardiometabolic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and high blood pressure.

“Coffee and caffeine consumption may play an important protective role in almost all phases of CM development,” Ke said.

Researchers analyzed data from more than 360,000 people in the UK Biobank, a large biomedical database and research resource that follows people long-term. Those involved did not have cardiometabolic diseases at the outset.

The information included the participants’ self-reported caffeine consumption through coffee or black or greentea and the cardiometabolic diseases they developed through their primary care data, hospital records and death certificates, according to the study published Tuesday in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Moderate caffeine consumers had a reduced risk of new onset cardiometabolic multimorbidity. The risk was reduced by 48.1% if they had one to three cups a day, or 40.7% if they had 200 to 300 milligrams of caffeine daily, compared with people who didn’t drink or drank less than one cup, Ke said.


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[Srkdqltr]

1. Wasn't it just last week that coffee was practically poison. Now it's good for us?

[Omnipresent]

2. My primary care physician recently asked me if i need to drink more than two coffee to get through the day...

She was inferring that drinking too much coffee was compensating for an underlying health problem.
So who knows if too much coffee or to little coffee is good for us?

[hlthe2b]

5. It can be a proxy for sleep patterns, which many patients have trouble really accurately assessing...

In older patients, it can also be a marker for early dementia symptoms as many patients experiencing will start or increase their consumption (and when they consume it). So, coffee can be healthy but the stimulant (caffeine) it contains can mask issues or conversely be a marker for some issues--and thus more or less intake can be a clue to what may be significant.

[Omnipresent]

10. I sleep pretty well at night, and I drink one to two cups tops a day.

In the past I would have some in the evening, but only if I had company and no work the next day.
It can come back to haunt me and wake me up in the middle of the night, by sometimes doing that.

[ExciteBike66]

3. What about three pots?

.... asking for a friend, of course!

[Jerry2144]

4. Medical science causes cancer

Among laboratory animals

[lpbk2713]

7. Yeah, but that's misleading.

You would have to consume three barrels of medical science in order for it to have an adverse effect.

[EYESORE 9001]

6. I drink until I'm satisfied

which is typically two large cups in the morning - three regular-size cups, actually. Sometimes I’ll have a third cup in the morning, but I really go all-out in restaurants, where I’ll have 3-4 of those dinky cups. After 40 years of marriage, my wife knows better than to chide me for drinking a caffeinated beverage at night. I’ve proven conclusively that it doesn’t interfere with my sleep.

[Wonder Why]

8. The rule says that you MUST have three cups. Even 2 1/2 will do nothing to help you and 3 1/2 will destroy your insides.

But the rule doesn't specify cup size of the cup and everyone knows a cup of coffee is more than a cup because a cup is smaller than a cup of coffee. So buying larger cups is an acceptable practice for heavy coffee drinkers (those over 200 lbs) and for light coffee drinkers (those that add milk to their coffee) can purchase smaller cups if they can't drink the required 3 regular size cups which are, as mentioned above, larger than ordinary cups.

But coffee drinkers should already know this because it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.

Q.E.D.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. I recently read a study that said up to five cups a day may improve health.

Who knows though.

[malthaussen]

11. For that matter, what constitutes a "cup?"

It ain't 8 ounces, that's for sure. Supposedly the restaurant standard is 6 oz per "cup," but I've never been to a restaurant that gave so little. There's supposedly 95 mg of caffeine in an 8 oz cup of coffee. But who drinks 8 oz cups of coffee? Mine is around 14 oz.

-- Mal