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Update on Coffee

The benefits of coffee consumption

February 26, 2011 |
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Sources Cited

Huxley R, Lee CM, Barzi F, Timmermeister L, Czernichow S, Perkovic V, Grobbee DE, Batty D, Woodward M. Coffee, decaffeinated coffee, and tea consumption in relation to incident type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Arch Intern Med. 2009 Dec 14;169(22):2053-63.

Holick CN, Smith SG, Giovannucci E, Michaud DS. Coffee, tea, caffeine intake, and risk of adult glioma in three prospective cohort studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Jan;19(1):39-47.

Sugiyama K, Kuriyama S, Akhter M, Kakizaki M, Nakaya N, Ohmori-Matsuda K, Shimazu T, Nagai M, Sugawara Y, Hozawa A, Fukao A, Tsuji I. Coffee consumption and mortality due to all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer in Japanese women. J Nutr. 2010 May;140(5):1007-13. Epub 2010 Mar 24.

Allred KF, Yackley KM, Vanamala J, Allred CD. Trigonelline is a novel phytoestrogen in coffee beans. J Nutr. 2009 Oct;139(10):1833-8. Epub 2009 Aug 26.

Acknowledgements

Image thanks to waferboard.

Transcript

What about coffee? There’s some new data on coffee and liver cancer. Should coffee still be considered good for us? Yes, we knew it decreased our risk of diabetes, and, there’s new evidence to support that, but what we didn’t know until this year is that it protects us from liver cancer as well, protects us from brain cancer, and protects us from death—decreased all cause mortality. This should not be a surprise. What is coffee, but beans and water? It’s a plant food. You know how soybeans have those healthy phytoestrogens? Well, now we know, so does coffee.
The reason I do not recommend drinking coffee is that there is something even healthier to drink instead, and that’s tea. Coffee is beans in water; tea is a dark green leafies in water, and though both are healthy, certainly, greens beat out beans, and pretty much everything else.

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 veganmontreal.

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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 theother videos on coffee. Also, there are 1,449 other subjects covered in the rest of my videos--please feel free to explore them as well!

Check out my associated blog post, Eating To Extend Our Lifespan.

  • 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 videos on coffee. Also, there are 1,449 other subjects covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/toxins/ Toxins

    Caldwell Essyslten says that we should avoid coffee because it damages our epitheleal cell walls

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/nickb/ NickB

    Great new web site! I really like the format of the short videos, esp. since you provide shots of the papers that you are summarizing the information from.

    One comment about the “coffee is good for you” message in this video. It is not supported by one of the articles you show an image of. Specifically, the article “Trigonelline Is a Novel Phytoestrogen in
    Coffee Beans” by Allred et al concludes that Trigonelline that is found in coffee “stimulates the
    growth of estrogen-dependent breast tumors in vivo”.

    Coffee good for you? I have significant reservations as to whether this is really true.

    Nick

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/TanTruong/ Tan Truong

    Interesting video, but I’m staying away from coffee. Most coffee drinkers I know look unhealthy. I’m not saying it’s the coffee, but there’s something about that lifestyle that I want no part of. Plus, how good does it taste without the milk/cream/sugar — the nasties?

    • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/toxins/ Toxins

      I agree, coffee is not necessarily heart healthy either because of the caffeine. We must weight out the pros and cons. I, like you, choose not to drink it as i prefer to be stimulant free!
      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20125186

  • Michael Klein

    Question on purines and gout:  I just started the plant based, “face free” diet as advocated in Fork over Knife.  During the past 10 years, while eating a typical American Diet (low fat, but with dairy and meat), I have experienced gout like symptoms in my big toe and ankle and can definitely associate it with eating lima beans (one of my favorites).  Can I expect this issue to remediate with the new diet?  Currently scared to eat limas, and tread carefully when trying new varieties of beans.

  • Michelvoss

    Lallemand LS et al. A Structural Basis for the Biosynthesis of the Major Chlorogenic Acids Found in Coffee Plant Physiol. 2012 September; 160(1): 249–260.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440203/

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