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Two or three cups of coffee a day is linked to a lower risk of heart and metabolic disease (www.nbcnews.com)

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People who consumed 200 to 300 milligrams of caffeine a day were less likely to develop coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes or stroke.

There are certain studies that coffee lovers, well, love.

This is one of them: Drinking several cups of caffeinated coffee or tea a day may protect against Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke.

The findings, published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, add to existing research suggesting that daily coffee drinkers have better heart health than nondrinkers — provided they don’t drink too much caffeine.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I wonder how much of this is correlation vs causation. For instance, if you can afford a couple cups of coffee a day (time and money) perhaps you're just more well off in general. Coffee might be a bad example in this case because it's pretty low cost (wines a better example), but my point remains.

[–] faltryka 9 points 2 months ago

I wonder about causation from a different angle. I only drink decaf and don’t do any caffeine specifically because I know I’m at a higher risk for heart disease and caffeine has triggered cardiac episodes for me before.

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