Benefits of drinking coffee

Drinking coffee in the morning, rather than throughout the day, is strongly associated with a lower risk of death, according to a new study published in the European Heart Journal.

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The benefit was even more significant for morning coffee drinkers who had at least two cups daily.

The large observational study included data from over 40,000 U.S. adults. Researchers accounted for factors that could influence the results, such as sleep duration, physical activity levels, smoking status, and diet quality.

People who drank more than one to two cups of coffee in the morning had a 16% lower risk of death from any cause and a 31% lower risk of death from heart disease compared to non-coffee drinkers.

“Coffee gets a bad reputation, undeservingly, and there is more data to show that it is very much part of a healthy dietary pattern,” said Bethany Doerfler, MS, RDN, a senior clinical research dietitian at the Digestive Health Insitute at Northwestern Medicine who was not involved with the study.

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