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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 14 2020, @06:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the Coffee:-it-calms-you-down-as-it-picks-you-up! dept.

Excess coffee consumption a culprit for poor health

Cappuccino, latte or short black, coffee is one of the most commonly consumed drinks in the world. But whether it’s good or bad for your health can be clarified by genetics, as a world-first study from the University of South Australia’s Australian Centre for Precision Health shows that excess coffee consumption can cause poor health.

Using data from over 300,000 participants in the UK Biobank, researchers examined connections between genetically instrumented habitual coffee consumption and a full range of diseases, finding that too much coffee can increase the risk of osteoarthritis, arthropathy (joint disease) and obesity.

In earlier research conducted by Professor Hyppönen and team, six cups of coffee a day were considered the upper limit of safe consumption.

Expert genetic epidemiologist, UniSA’s Professor Elina Hyppönen, says understanding any risks associated with habitual coffee intakes could have very large implications for population health.

[...] “In this study, we used a genetic approach – called MR-PheWAS analysis – to establish the true effects of coffee consumption against 1117 clinical conditions.

“Reassuringly, our results suggest that, moderate coffee drinking is mostly safe.

“But it also showed that habitual coffee consumption increased the risks of three diseases: osteoarthritis, arthropathy and obesity, which can cause significant pain and suffering for individuals with these conditions.”

[...] “For people with a family history of osteoarthritis or arthritis, or for those who are worried about developing these conditions, these results should act as a cautionary message.

[...] “While these results are in many ways reassuring in terms of general coffee consumption, the message we should always remember is consume coffee in moderation – that’s the best bet to enjoy your coffee and good health too.”

Journal Reference:
Konstance Nicolopoulos, Anwar Mulugeta, Ang Zhou, Elina Hyppönen. Association between habitual coffee consumption and multiple disease outcomes: A Mendelian randomisation phenome-wide association study in the UK Biobank. Clinical Nutrition, 2020; DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2020.03.009


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  • (Score: 2) by cykros on Friday May 15 2020, @01:49PM

    by cykros (989) on Friday May 15 2020, @01:49PM (#994615)

    It would be nice to see a study measuring obesity among habitual black coffee drinkers vs. coffee drinkers who hate coffee and have to fill it full of dairy and sweeteners. Coffee itself raises cortisol levels, so I'll accept that there's a little uptick in the propensity for obesity, but that seems worth measuring out against the effects brought on particularly by feeding the candida with all that sugar and artificial sweetener. The dairy, in most cases, gets a bad rap, but the reality is unless you're having half cream half coffee you're probably not adding that many calories to your coffee that way, as an oz of milk is ~20 calories. The candida being fed by sugar, otoh, is going to alter your craving for more sugar, alcohol, and artificial sweeteners, and mess with damn near everything else in the process.

    It's almost like when they claimed coffee caused lung cancer because all those lung cancer patients drank coffee with their cigarettes.

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