Morning coffee protects the heart, a new study shows. People who drink coffee mainly in the morning have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than people who do not drink coffee or drink coffee all day.
Study results* show that morning coffee drinkers had a 31 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 16 percent lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to coffee abstainers.
However, no such health benefits were found in study participants who drank coffee all day.
Why is the timing of drinking coffee important?
The researchers suspect that drinking coffee in the afternoon or evening disrupts the internal biological clock and thus cancels out the positive effects.
Two to three cups are ideal
The positive effect of drinking coffee in the morning was most noticeable in people who drank two to three cups of coffee. But according to the study, those who drank more than three cups of coffee every morning also benefited from positive effects on the risk of death.
Positive effects were also measurable in people who drank between one and two cups of coffee every morning. But they were lower.
*Subjects participated in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 to 2018. For the study, which was published on Wednesday in the European Health Journal, researchers from Tulane University in the US analyzed data from more than 40,000 adults.
Source: Krone
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