| ▲ | Bridged7756 4 hours ago |
| I love coffee. It's good for you, it smells and tastes so good. It wakes you up, and prevents sleepiness after meals. Its stimulant nature is a plus, but not necessarily the main thing. |
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| ▲ | jorvi 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Unfortunately the most flavorful methods (espresso, french press, moka) also raise your cholesterol. So sadly, no, coffee is not universally "good for you". Filtered coffee methods are though, as the filter absorbs the oils. |
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| ▲ | ifwinterco 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Which is why Italians and Greeks famously all die young of heart disease | | |
| ▲ | jorvi 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Always so cute how fellow coffee lovers will loudly boast the health benefits of coffee, but when you add an asterisk they will see it as a personal attack and respond strongly :) Coffee is not what defines your identity. It's fine to admit it isn't perfect. | | |
| ▲ | fatty_patty89 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The slight cholesterol boost from those doesn't matter... It's like saying that a banana is radioactive. Let me guess, it's bad to eat fat aswell? There are far worse foods that spike your cholesterol, irrelevant point you've made | |
| ▲ | ifwinterco 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | My point is not that unfiltered coffee is good, I’m just saying that northern italians who eat dessert for breakfast, cook everything in lard, drink unfiltered coffee and even (gasp) sometimes smoke cigarettes are significantly healthier than Americans on every metric. Not saying those things are necessarily good for you, I’m just saying we don’t seem to understand this stuff very well | | |
| ▲ | jorvi 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Probably because they don't consume gobs of HFCS and ultra-processed foods, don't take the car for every single thing[0], and have obesity/overweight rates that are 20-40% lower. A healthier work-life balance and concomitant lower cortisol and blood pressure also helps a lot. If you compare Italians and Greeks to, say, Swedes and Dutchies, you'd get a much different picture. [0] not entirely Americans their personal fault, their urban design isn't for walking around | |
| ▲ | coldtea 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >and even (gasp) sometimes smoke cigarettes are significantly healthier than Americans on every metric. Not just "sometimes". Less these days, but when they were recognized as blue zones decades ago almost everybody smoked like chimneys. |
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| ▲ | papyrus9244 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If something has several clear positive effects, and a possible small, arguably irrelevant, negative effect, most people will agree that yes, it's good for you. It's like trying to argue that running may have a negative effect on some people's meniscus under some specific circumstances. That doesn't negate the generalization "running is good for you". | |
| ▲ | m3kw9 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Pour over is flavorful and none of the fat | |
| ▲ | wahnfrieden 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Paper filters give you massive amounts of microplastics | |
| ▲ | Jackpillar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Sorry brother but the worry around cholesterol - especially in the context of the US - is not stemming from people drinking too much coffee. If you have high cholesterol there are 15 other things you should probably be cutting down on. This is similar to people who tell people to watch the sugar content in their fruit intake. No ones getting obese off fruit, the benefits outweigh the negatives tenfold. |
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| ▲ | EA-3167 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I would be very cautious about any conclusions regarding its health benefits or detriments. Nutrition research is notoriously difficult to replicate or show causal links in humans engaging with the real world. Texas A&M also has a coffee research center dedicated to promoting and protecting global coffee trade and consumption so… yeah. |
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| ▲ | JXavierH 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That's why I moved to decaf. Love coffee, caffeine doesn't like me. |
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| ▲ | vikingerik 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | FYI since many people don't know: Decaf isn't zero, it can still be several percentage points. In the US decaf is supposed to be under 3% of regular coffee but it's not commonly tested or enforced, so many types of decaf can be quite a bit higher. Several big cups of decaf can approach the caffeine content of one regular cup. | | |
| ▲ | esperent 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Several big cups of decaf can approach the caffeine content of one regular cup Do you have a source for this? Because it doesn't sound right to me. And also, I live in a coffee producing company, work adjacent to the coffee industry, and had a long conversation with someone planning to set up a business exporting green beans to the US, and their beans were getting tested to an extreme degree and being rejected for a few ppm over on certain things. I have heard the 3% rule but fyi it's 1% in the EU and since there's actually not that many large scale decaffeination factories in the world, as far as I know they all target the EU level. If you buy small batch, large batch, or somewhere in between it's probably been processed in one of these few large factories. |
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| ▲ | campbel 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I am definitely going to do this as I age, I just don't need the stimulant effects as much anymore. That said, the ritual of getting coffee and sipping on something warm in the morning is really important to starting my day right. | | | |
| ▲ | joe_mamba 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Sadly, I can't. I tried all the decaf beans in my area and even some fancy online roastery specialized only in decaf beans, and they all tasted like ass, compared to their caffeinated cousins. So much money wasted trying to find good tasting decaf beans. Not sure what the decaffeination process does, but it definitely does not preserve the taste of the "untouched" beans. Are my tastebuds too sensitive? |
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