Drinking Coffee in moderation may
reduce your risk of heart failure as you age, according to a new
analysis.
What's Moderation? About two cups a
day, if you are drinking the typical U.S. Coffee.
Beyond that, any potential benefits
seem to decrease and eventually go away, while making clear that this
study found a link, but not cause and effect.
About 60% of people have heart failure.
It occurs when the heart can't pump enough blood to the body.
Although heart failure can be controlled with medications and
lifestyle changes.
Besides possibly reducing heart failure
risk, coffee has been found in other studies to protect against type
2 Diabetes, Parkinson's disease and Liver Cancer.
Those who drank three or four servings
a day had the best protection from heart failure, drinking that
amount, compared to not drinking, reduced heart failure risk by 11%.
However, those four servings are
European style and must be translated to typically larger U.S.
serving size. Three or four european servings would be equivalent to
about two U.S. Servings, or up to about two 10-ounce cups.
When you get up to five or six U.S.
servings a day, there is no further benefit and perhaps you are
getting into a territory with increased risk.
The health benefits linked with coffee
aren't fully understood but the reduced heart failure is due to
coffee's seeming ability to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Heart failure is the end result of
underlying heart disease. Among the heart problems that can cause
heart failure are abnormal heart rhythms, heart valve disease, heart
attack or congenital heart disease.
