Coffee and tea have gotten a bad rap for heart health, and it turns out it may be unjustified, according to a recent article in The Atlantic. Studies suggest that two cups of filtered coffee every day have a negligible effect on blood pressure and cholesterol...
The same goes for tea—like coffee, both black tea and green tea are associated with a lower likelihood of developing coronary heart disease. So if you drink tea or coffee on a regular basis, keep drinking! Your heart is safe... just in time for Valentine's Day. (Aww.)
Read More: Coffee's Effect on the Heart Is So Small You Should Stop Worrying at The Atlantic
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French Press, Turkish, and other non-paper-filtered brewing methods still have large amounts of cafestol, which stimulates LDL cholesterol (the "bad" kind) levels. Espresso has less cafestol than those more direct brewing methods, but less than paper filtering. If you are using a metal mesh filter, you may be getting more cafestol than you think.
Paper filters = good for your LDL cholesterol number, not so good for the waste stream. :-p
Your heart might be safe, but drinking too much coffee can be taxing on your adrenal glands.
Never in my short life have I heard of tea being bad for you in any way. Am I missing something?
yahhhhh! this is great news. i was getting ready to give it up. now, the addiction continues. mmmmmm...
Just FYI folks, Atlantic has fuzzy science journalism. Look at the Atlantic article. Does anyone see published studies? Nope. They mention *in passing* a quote study from Costa Rica. The Atlantic is a newspaper. Heart 411 is a book (yes, written by doctors. But the studies are new and should be referenced in the article). Coffee is known to contain as many as 14 carcinogens. I'm not saying coffee and tea is dangerous. Just please, ask Atlantic for the studes, and read them, before you take anything away from this.
Let me provide an example: google the phrase below. It's from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. This is what a study looks like. Notice it's from 1982 (outdated? yes, maybe, or maybe not, research more and decide). This is what we look for when asking any science based question: a study. Not popular media.
Coffee drinking and cancer of the lower urinary tract.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6948130
Thank you EMMI for demanding good inquiry!
Cheers, Tatterhood. Hope I did not sound too cranky, LOL!