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A Massive New Study of 347,077 People Just Revealed Exactly How Much Coffee You Should Drink Each Day. (Before the Health Dangers Outweigh the Benefits)We've heard story after story about the benefits. Now we know the limit.
https://www.inc.com ^ | MAY 12, 2019 | BY BILL MURPHY JR.

Posted on 07/23/2021 10:39:30 AM PDT by Red Badger

Perhaps you're reading this with your phone in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other, or while heading out from work to meet a colleague for work. If that's the case, we have some very good news -- although, perhaps with a small caveat.

Over the past few years, a series of studies have come out showing that drinking coffee--in fact, drinking a lot of coffee--has significant health benefits. In fact, some suggested there could be big benefits in drinking copious amounts.

The big unanswered question, however, has been whether there's any amount of coffee that's actually "too much." Now, a brand new study that examined 347,077 coffee drinkers, seems to have found an answer: the precise number of cups of coffee at which at which health problems might begin to show up, and could even outweigh the benefits.

Let's not hide the ball, By synthesizing several of these of the earlier "positive" studies with the new one out of the University of South Australia that suggests an upper limit, we can come up with the perfect number: Five cups of coffee per day.

Here's the background, the new study, and why when it comes to coffee, five is a magic number.

>>>>>> First, drink more coffee

First, the benefits. Study after study after study suggests real benefits to drinking coffee from a health perspective. As a coffee fiend myself, I've followed several of them over the years, including:

* A study in which researchers funded by the American Heart Association and the University of Colorado School of Medicine found that risk of heart failure or stroke went down 8 percent for each additional cup of coffee per day.

* A British study of 498,123 people found that the ones who habitually drank coffee were between 10 and 15 percent less likely to die during any 10 year period than non-coffee drinkers.

* A Stanford University study that tracked 100 people over several years, and found that coffee drinkers tended to live longer than non-coffee drinkers. Here, the theory--just a theory, but still -- was that increased caffeine consumption might counteract the "fundamental inflammatory mechanism associated with human aging."

* A Spanish study found that drinking four cups of coffee per day led to a 64 percent lower risk of dying among study participants compared to non-coffee drinkers.

If you read through all of those studies, you come away with the idea that drinking as many as four cups of coffee per day could have some significant health benefits.

But if four is good, then how about five? And if five is good, why not 10?

>>>>> But then, stop at five

While I consider myself a pretty serious coffee drinker, the truth is I would rarely go past three cups in a day: one or two with breakfast, and perhaps one in the afternoon.

According to this new study out of South Australia, however, I've got some room to go before hitting the danger area. The problem, once you reach it, is the point at which the increased stimulation can lead to heart disease.

"In order to maintain a healthy heart and a healthy blood pressure, people must limit their coffees to fewer than six cups a day -- based on our data six was the tipping point where caffeine started to negatively affect cardiovascular risk," said Professor Elina Hyppönen of the Australian Centre for Precision Health, one of the study's authors.

Specifically, once you reach six cups of coffee per day, the risk of heart disease increases by 22 percent according to the study.

The study was published in the March 2019 edition of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and publicized last week.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: coffee
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To: Red Badger

Another stupid “study.” I drink coffee because I like it. Recommending 5 cups per day is irresponsible. It’s COFFEE! for crying out loud! It has caffeine! Too much caffeine and you have problems. Inability to sleep is just one.

I pay no attention to these “studies” except to ridicule them.


21 posted on 07/23/2021 10:54:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To find out who really rules you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. Voltaire. )
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To: Red Badger

For the love of God, will these people ever cease and desist with the never-ending, schizophrenic reporting on this drink? One minute it’s saving my life. The next minute it’s rotting my brain. Ugh.


22 posted on 07/23/2021 10:55:02 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Red Badger

Non-coffee drinkers are dour killjoys, so it is really hard to say that lack of coffee specifically is what is shortening their lives.

And there is a massive range presently in what people consider to be “a cup” of coffee.


23 posted on 07/23/2021 10:55:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Red Badger

For coffee a cup is considered 6 ounces. Just saying as many just figure it is the standard 8.


24 posted on 07/23/2021 10:56:51 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: joshua c

You are a Genius!


25 posted on 07/23/2021 10:58:10 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Red Badger

I know it would be expecting too much to quantify what size a cup and how many ounces. It’s like the thing about having no more than two drinks per day of alcohol. What quantity? Q


26 posted on 07/23/2021 10:58:55 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Red Badger

Most all my family before my time drank like fish, some smoked like chimneys, drown themselves in coffee, ate red meat, loved eggs cooked in butter, and didn’t Jog 5 miles a day.
They all lived into their late 80’s and early 90’s.
I think I’ll have a beer.


27 posted on 07/23/2021 11:02:05 AM PDT by rellic
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To: Red Badger
Just great!
Now, at 87, they tell me...

To took me 3-years, but I finally cut my coffee consumption down from 4-or-5 to less than 1/2 cup per day this past 6-months...

Hopefully they won't tell us the same thing about sex...
Although, as algore once said, "......................."

28 posted on 07/23/2021 11:02:47 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Red Badger

A month ago it was 6 cups. Close enough I guess.


29 posted on 07/23/2021 11:05:20 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: SuperLuminal

Yeah, but the question remains: With so little caffeine consumption, can you still fit the cigar in the ashtray holder? :- )


30 posted on 07/23/2021 11:09:33 AM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: Red Badger

Has anybody figured out how drinking coffee is racist? NJ


31 posted on 07/23/2021 11:14:40 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Red Badger

I’d mind coffee drinkers a lot less if they brushed their teeth and used mouthwash a lot more.


32 posted on 07/23/2021 11:15:47 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Red Badger

So, basically, I’d dead and just don’t know it.


33 posted on 07/23/2021 11:15:57 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Red Badger

“The big unanswered question, however, has been whether there’s any amount of coffee that’s actually “too much.”

It’s too much when you start having symptoms of caffeine toxicity. Happened to someone I know. You can definitely drink too much caffeine.


34 posted on 07/23/2021 11:22:06 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Red Badger

My usual daily regimen is five 14 oz. cups a day or one full pot. While not near as strong as the starbucks swill but it is always freshly ground Eight O’clock Columbian whole bean combined with Cafe Bustelo Expresso at a 3:1 ratio. Two pots is my absolute limit.

I reckon I is screwed...


35 posted on 07/23/2021 11:23:38 AM PDT by snuffy smiff (Vsetko Umiera! Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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To: DeFault User

“Has anybody figured out how drinking coffee is racist?”

Do you drink it black....?


36 posted on 07/23/2021 11:29:44 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Red Badger

I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the jiving and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!
I love java, sweet and hot
Whoops! Mr. Moto, I’m a coffee pot
Shoot me the pot and I’ll pour me a shot
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!
Oh, slip me a slug from the wonderful mug
And I cut a rug till I’m snug in a jug
A slice of onion and a raw one, draw one.
Waiter, waiter, percolator!


37 posted on 07/23/2021 11:35:46 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Your mother sounds just like my mother. (wink, wink)


38 posted on 07/23/2021 11:40:42 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (The 2020 election was stolen from MY President Trump)
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To: Grampa Dave
Metric cup:   250 ml    8.45 fl oz
Japanese cup: 200 ml    6.7  fl oz 
US mearuring cup:       8.0  fl oz 
US coffee cup:          6.O  fl oz  
Canadian coffee cup:    7.6  fl oz   

39 posted on 07/23/2021 11:42:12 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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To: Red Badger

I am calling bovine excrement. Just another example of some one trying to control me.


40 posted on 07/23/2021 11:47:00 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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