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Is Coffee Bad For You?

The cholesterol-raising compounds of coffee are removed by a plain paper filter.

September 24, 2010 |
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Is Coffee Bad For You?, 5.0 out of 5 based on 4 ratings

Sources Cited

S.R. Taylor & B.D. Adams. To sip or not to sip: the potential health risks and benefits of coffee drinking. NFS, 37(6):406-418, 2007.

Acknowledgements

Transcript

What about two cups of filtered coffee every day with that oatmeal. Coffee has historically been a confusing story—originally linked to bladder and ovarian cancer, but that was just because coffee drinkers tended to be smokers. Coffee may cause heartburn and worsen osteoporosis, but maybe protect against diabetes, parkinsons, and Alzheimers. To sip or not to sip, what do you say, based on the latest research? How many say harmful??? Harmless??? Helpful??? Based on the latest science, helpful. Note this is for filtered coffee, though. There are some substances in coffee that raise your cholesterol, but they’re filtered out in the paper, so brewed coffee is ok, but something like plunger coffee or expresso may not be.

To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by Dianne Moore.

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Dr. Michael Greger

Doctor's Note

Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the other “HHH” videos (Harmful, Harmless, or Helpful?). Also, there are over a thousand subjects covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

For more context, check out my associated blog posts: Stool Size and Breast Cancer Risk and Soymilk: shake it up!

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/mgreger/ Michael Greger M.D.

    Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the other “HHH” videos (Harmful, Harmless, or Helpful?). Also, there are over a thousand subjects covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/ncvegan/ NCVegan

    Hi Dr. Greger,
    I am glad to hear that coffee is helpful! Does the literature indicate any differences between hot brewed coffee and cold brewed coffee? I have read that hot brewed coffee is more acidic than cold brewed coffee.
    Thank you!
    Priscilla

  • Bob Levin

    Hello Dr. Greger,  My 41 year old daughter has leukemia (both AML and ALL) and is about to receive pre-transplant chemo and radio- therapy, the transplant to be provided September 11th..  We are now eating a plant based diet.  Do you have specific recommendtions for this type of leukemia?

    Thank you very much,

    Bernard Levin (email: Bobandpari19@yahoo.com)

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