Coffee May Prevent Diabetes and Heart Disease
There’s now one more reason to get your morning fuel from coffee: it’s good for your heart, according to new research.
The study, published in an American Heart Association journal, comes from the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical. Based on their findings, researchers now believe drinking two cups of coffee a day will lower the risk for diabetes, which as a result lowers the risk for heart failure.
The size of your ‘two cups of coffee’ is important, however, and shouldn’t exceed more than 8 ounces. By keeping these parameters, researchers say people may be able to lower their risk of heart failure by as much as 11 percent compared to non-coffee drinkers. But if you exceed that 16-ounce a day limit, it may actually undermine the beneficial qualities.
The first author of the study, Elizabeth Mostofsky, explained this is because “protection slowly decreases with more consumption and it seems there’s no further benefit for people who drink five or more servings a day and there may actually be potential for harm.”
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