Up to 5 Cups of Coffee a Day OK, Gov't Advisory Committee Says
Source: ABC
You can consume up to 5 cups of coffee a day, or up to 400 milligrams of caffeine, without detrimental effects, according to a new report that will help shape the official government dietary guidelines due out later this year.
This is the first time caffeine has been mentioned in the advisory report, which is submitted by a panel of experts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services every five years. The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans will be finalized by the end of the year.
The advisory committee determined moderate coffee consumption was not associated with health risks, including cardiovascular disease and cancer. In fact, the committee noted that there's evidence coffee has some health benefits, including reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. There's also some evidence caffeine offers protection against Parkinson's disease, the committee wrote.
Still, pregnant women and children should limit their caffeine consumption, the committee concluded, adding that mixing alcohol and caffeine should be avoided.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cups-coffee-day-govt-advisory-committee/story?id=29085259
bananas
(27,509 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Credibility of these studies, as reported by the media: zero.
postulater
(5,075 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)Saturated fat IS good for you, just like coffee.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)I'll pass on the wheat germ too.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Mentally healthy? Absolutely!
If your attitudes and emotions are negative, no amount of "health food" will make you healthy. The brain is the most important part of healing.
tridim
(45,358 posts)No need to torture myself.
I'm discovering that paleo-type food tastes better than junk food, and is quite a bit more satiating. The change was easy.
Everything Dr. Atkins said was right. I'm just kind of surprised that it's taking this long.
Oh, did you know that the "Mediterranean Diet" is based on the diet of a group of people subsisting on WWII rations...during Lent????? That might be why they had so little red meat, ya think.
tridim
(45,358 posts)After a year of high-fat, low-carb paleo-ish diet my body has completely changed inside and out. I'm trim, with more muscle tone and a flat tummy. I have more energy, great digestion, brighter eyes, less wrinkles, no sickness or general pain etc, etc, etc. I feel 20 years younger.
It's no fad.
tridim
(45,358 posts)But my office serves Folgers "coffee" so I can only do 2 cups.
Sorry statistics.
I'd find it difficult to drink five cups of even the finest Arabica.
My office serves Maxwell House. More than one cup of that shit and it will burn a hole in you.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)The ABC report did not give that information, keeping in line with current American MSM integrity.
I've seen several such studies giving glowing endorsements for various foods or food groups that were funded by a party with a vested interest in releasing such a report. And, if you're conducting the study, are you going to jeopardize your funding source by bad-mouthing their product?
djean111
(14,255 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)There's been a lot of news about the beneficial effects of coffee lately, and now this.
Until this last spate, the thinking on coffee was quite a bit different.
I doubt if a cup or two now and then is all that harmful, but five cups a day?
No way, Jose.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)by Juan Valdez, with additional funding provided by his burro, and Maxwell Houser.
Arcadiasix
(255 posts)I drink it for other safety.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Starbucks Coffee venti, 20 fl. oz. 415
Starbucks Coffee grande, 16 fl. oz. 330
http://www.cspinet.org/new/cafchart.htm
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Even by that standard, *$ is going to exceed 400mg well before 5 cups. However, from your same website Maxwell House has 100-160mg per 12oz. Even if you go with the higher number, 5 cups still has you at or below 400mg.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)still_one
(92,190 posts)marmar
(77,080 posts)Marthe48
(16,960 posts)Next week, who knows? I ignore these studies and do what works for me
tridim
(45,358 posts)EEO
(1,620 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)is a "I'm cutting back on coffee" day for me.
lastlib
(23,234 posts)CR@P, I'm doomed!!! GET ME SOME MORE COFFEE!!!
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I drink 1 cup of half-caff (half caffinated half decaf) a day. 5 cups of regular caffinated would have me up all night with palpitations.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)ever since this episode:
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Looks like an intervention-in-progress.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)but I take a caffeine pill in the morning to wake me up and one in the afternoon to keep going the rest of the day. One pill is equal to one cup of coffee.
My doctor told me not to take the caffeine pills because of my high blood pressure.
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)Thus, completely disrupting every aspect of your life, what's so bad about drinking so much coffee?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...fuck the government. Who believes anything these assholes say?
How can you?
- They like GMOs as well.
Anyone who follows the dictates of the government will get what they deserve.........
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)Especially if the espresso is "finickey" and not tasting good. Anything more, and you start feeling real weak and shaky.
Most other days, even with unlimited free access to the best coffee in the world, I'll usually drink 16-20oz coffee/day.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)They are basically free advertising for the affected business or industry.
Just the other day, I saw a newscast that spent the better part of 60 seconds "reporting" on a national pizza chain's introduction of a pizza with bacon crust. Right away I asked, "Why is that news? Why doesn't the business pay for advertisement to communicate this message?"
That's our news media in a nutshell - a bunch of goofs who are too damned lazy to dig up real news and would rather resort to filling air time with business-produced footage and script that amounts to free ad time.