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It’s official: Americans should drink more coffee
Washington Post ^ | 02/23/2015 | Roberto A. Ferdman

Posted on 02/23/2015 3:08:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind

When the nation's top nutrition panel released its latest dietary recommendations on Thursday, the group did something it had never done before: weigh in on whether people should be drinking coffee. What it had to say is pretty surprising.

Not only can people stop worrying about whether drinking coffee is bad for them, according to the panel, they might even want to consider drinking a bit more.

The panel cited minimal health risks associated with drinking between three and five cups per day. It also said that consuming as many as five cups of coffee each day (400 mg) is tied to several health benefits, including a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

"We saw that coffee has a lot of health benefits," said Miriam Nelson, a professor at Tufts University and one of the committee’s members. "Specifically when you're drinking more than a couple cups per day."

That's great news if you're already drinking between three and five cups each day, which Nelson and the rest of the panel consider a "moderate" level of consumption. But you know what? You probably aren't, because people in this country actually tend to consume a lot less than that. On average, Americans only drink about one cup of coffee per day, according to data collected by the United States Department of Agriculture. Even when Americans drank the most coffee they ever have, back in 1946, they still only drank two cups a day on average.


Interestingly enough, it isn't just people in the United States who drink less-than-moderate amounts of joe each day. No country in the world downs more than 3 cups each day per capita,

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: coffee
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To: SeekAndFind

Coffee is a staple in my life. I get up and the first thing I do is make a cup. I drink it on the way to the shower, leave it on the sink and finish it when I get out.

I drink cups throughout the day. The few times in my adult life where I haven’t had a cup by late morning...well, it’s not pretty. Think Godzilla and Tokyo.


41 posted on 02/23/2015 4:11:42 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: SeekAndFind

One cup of coffee a day? Pikers!


42 posted on 02/23/2015 4:12:24 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wake me up when some genius says Americans should drink more great Kentucky whiskey.


43 posted on 02/23/2015 4:12:37 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: KarlInOhio
Looking at the graph I was thinking that we were kinda slacking off from our WWII era drinkers, but you had to be hard core to make it back then!
44 posted on 02/23/2015 4:20:39 PM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Coffee is awesome stuff. On a recent trip to California, I purchased two pounds of fresh ground Peets to take home.
45 posted on 02/23/2015 4:20:54 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

Off the top of your head can anyone tell me how much coffee is 400 mg? Wasn’t this published by an American agency paid for with US $$? Just what planet (or continent) are these a@@wipes from?


46 posted on 02/23/2015 4:25:32 PM PST by Thom Pain (If you like your country you can keep it. Period. REPEAL 17 !!)
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To: wally_bert
taste like battery acid despite dumping cream and sugar in it

I drink 100% Colombian coffee black, without sugar or any other poofter additives. Four to five large mugs a day.

47 posted on 02/23/2015 4:26:26 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Thom Pain
"Off the top of your head can anyone tell me how much coffee is 400 mg?"

I can. It's 100mgs less than 500mgs and 100mgs more than 300mgs.

48 posted on 02/23/2015 4:27:28 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I drink coffee every weekday. If I didn't have it, I'd go into convulsions like a meth addict.

You must be all kinda fun to be around on the weekends ;-)

49 posted on 02/23/2015 4:27:30 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: thefactor
Never tried it. Never will.

Good. More for me.

50 posted on 02/23/2015 4:28:18 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Not only can people stop worrying about whether drinking coffee is bad for them, according to the panel, they might even want to consider drinking a bit more.

They can't. I drank it all.

51 posted on 02/23/2015 4:28:23 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: trisham
"One cup of coffee a day? Pikers!"


52 posted on 02/23/2015 4:29:12 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: SeekAndFind

If it weren’t for coffee and tobacco, I wouldn’t consume any vegetables.


53 posted on 02/23/2015 4:29:42 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

LOL!


54 posted on 02/23/2015 4:29:57 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Thom Pain

The 400 mg refers to the caffeine content of five cups (according to the article).


55 posted on 02/23/2015 4:31:25 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SeekAndFind

What do they want to talk about? I have a little home espresso maker and have a quad (about 15 ounces) espresso every morning — and that’s it (unless it’s summer, then I have about a 32 ounce iced coffee every morning). Is that enough to satisfy them?


56 posted on 02/23/2015 4:32:35 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Delta 21

Wonder what agave would do to coffee? I have only recently discovered it.


57 posted on 02/23/2015 4:32:50 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

If it weren’t for coffee and tobacco, I wouldn’t consume any vegetables.


Don’t forget the beer !!!


58 posted on 02/23/2015 4:32:57 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: SeekAndFind
It’s official: Americans should drink more coffee

I'd like to help, really I would but I cannot possibly drink more coffee than I already do.

59 posted on 02/23/2015 4:34:35 PM PST by upsdriver (Palin/West)
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To: Zeneta

I don’t drink alcohol (anymore. Met my lifetime’s quota by 34).


60 posted on 02/23/2015 4:34:57 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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