[Ziquor]

Coffee Drinkers Might Live Longer

The brew could boost heart health, study finds

By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter

(HealthDay News) - Good news for coffee lovers: Drinking up to six cups a day of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee daily won't shorten your life span, a new study shows.

In fact, coffee might even help the heart, especially for women, the researchers found.

"Our results suggest that long-term, regular coffee consumption does not increase the risk of death and probably has several beneficial effects on health," said lead researcher Dr. Esther Lopez-Garcia, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Autonoma University in Madrid, Spain.

Her team published its findings in the June 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Lopez-Garcia stressed that the findings may only hold true only for healthy folk. "People with any disease or condition should ask their doctor about their risk, because caffeine still has an acute effect on short-term increase of blood pressure," she said.

In the study, the Spanish team looked at the relationships between coffee drinking and the risks of dying from heart disease, cancer, or any cause in almost 42,000 men who participated in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study and more than 84,000 women who had participated in the Nurses' Health Study. At the study start, all participants were free of heart disease and cancer.

The participants completed questionnaires every two to four years, including information about their coffee drinking, other dietary habits, smoking and health conditions. The research team looked at the frequency of death from any cause, death due to heart disease, and death due to cancer among people with different coffee-drinking habits, comparing them to those who didn't drink the brew. They also controlled for other risk factors, including diet, smoking and body size.

The researchers found that women who drank two or three cups of caffeinated coffee daily had a 25 percent lower risk of death from heart disease during the follow-up (from 1980 to 2004) than non-drinkers. Women also had an 18 percent lower death risk from a cause other than cancer or heart disease compared with non-coffee drinkers.

For men, drinking two to three cups of caffeinated coffee daily was a "wash" -- not associated with either an increased or a decreased risk of death during the follow up, from 1986 to 2004.

The lower death rate was mainly due to a lower risk for heart disease deaths, the researchers found, while no link was discovered for coffee drinking and cancer deaths. The relationship did not seem to be directly related to caffeine, according to the researchers, since those who drank decaf also had a lower death rate than those who didn't drink either kind of coffee.

In the past, studies have come up with mixed results on the health effects of coffee, with some finding coffee increased the risk of death and others not.

More recently, research has found coffee drinking linked with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and some cancers, and preventing the development of cardiovascular disease, Lopez-Garcia said.

"I think what this study tells us is not so much that coffee is the answer to everything," he said. But, rather, that some compounds, such as the antioxidants found in coffee, may be healthy.

Galier's advice for consumers: "I would tell them to weigh the subjective risk of their coffee consumption," he said. For instance, "if they love coffee, but it makes them jittery, and they can't sleep, the need to adjust it," he said. "Look at your symptoms," he tells patients. "If decaf is no problem, I wouldn't put a limit on that."

The research was funded by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

[polo]

i love coffee personally taste good/addicting

but i personally think it affects the preworkout workout supplements since you alrdy drank like 3-6 cups it said
but it might be a high intake of caffeine.

but on the good side it can help with your heart which is a positive with later on life with bodybuilders since most have heart problems in theyre 50's.

[poison]

I like this thread. I'm a coffee roaster.

[SokVichet]

Originally Posted by poison

I like this thread. I'm a coffee roaster.

Gettin' fancy with it are ya? :P You roast your own beans? I ask, because a childhood friend's father used to do that in a strange shed in the backyard. He had the uncooked beans imported, then did his own roasting. O.o

I love fresh ground medium-bolds in a french press. The strange looks I get at work when i grind and scoop it into my single serving press haven't stopped yet... And I've been doing this for a year. A single cup about 2-3 times a week as a treat. Haven't had a drop in about 3 months though... man, this thread has me looking at my press again. Yummy!

[poison]

Oh yes! My co-workers love me, because they know there'll be great coffee.

Why the hell would you stop drinking for 3 months? :huh:

[SokVichet]

Originally Posted by poison

Oh yes! My co-workers love me, because they know there'll be great coffee.

Why the hell would you stop drinking for 3 months? :huh:

Haha, good question. My reasoning was as follows:
I tend to take my coffee with a bit of creamer and sugar (ugh, even "fresh" coffee beans from the local shop are stale enough to be bitter), and when starting my training up again 3 months ago, I made the requirement that my diet be tee-f*cking-total dead on. With no distractions whatsoever, and I knew that coffee would be a distraction for me at first.

The second more important reason, was that I was trying out my first fat burning supplement, ever. I had researched them for a full month before deciding, and I went with the ONLY one I'll ever use most likely. Recreate. Simply due to the fact that I found I was very sensitive to stims when I tried Lipo6 last year. I mean, I couldn't handle it at all! Freaked me out, and got dangerously anxious on it. Recreate is amazingly gentle, yet I'm still sweating as I type this deep into my second bottle. So... even with the very small dose of caffeine in Recreate, I figured I should keep it controlled for now.

So, 1.5-2 months on Recreate and I'm ready for coffee again lol. I love the stuff and am certain my body can handle the small extra dose of caffeine that a cup will give me a few times a week.

[poison]

That's actually a good excuse! I have the same problem, I'm sensitive to caffeine, and can't stand being over-caffeinated. I absolutely hate it. I have two espressos a day, no more, no less. Fat burners kick my ass. I'll agree with the recreate, too, it doesn't bother me much at all.

[Ziquor]

Fresh coffee rules! This quite a difference in freshly roasted coffee compared to packaged.

[poison]

Whole bean coffee starts going stale around day 10-15, and very noticeably degrades from there on, to total ugh around day 30+.

Coffee isn't good straight out of the roaster, either, especially for espresso. The 4-5th day it hits its stride. So days 4-10 are usually prime.

Ground coffee is good for 2-3 days max, some less sensitive tastebud might take it to 4-5 days.

[Wolfenstein]

ahhh....god damn I love coffee..

[Ziquor]

Originally Posted by poison

Whole bean coffee starts going stale around day 10-15, and very noticeably degrades from there on, to total ugh around day 30+.

Coffee isn't good straight out of the roaster, either, especially for espresso. The 4-5th day it hits its stride. So days 4-10 are usually prime.

Ground coffee is good for 2-3 days max, some less sensitive tastebud might take it to 4-5 days.

Damn, looks like we have a connoisseur!

[poison]

Originally Posted by Ziquor

Damn, looks like we have a connoisseur!

Something like that!

[beebab]

I'm becoming a coffee fanatic myself haha. I love french vanilla flavored coffee sweetened w Stevia mmmmm... helps me CONTROL my cravings so I don't cheat on my diet. Also a good diuretic.

[poison]

Do you buy French Vanilla flavored coffee, or add French Vanilla flavored creamer?