Coffee and cholesterol
Wrote at 13:42 by Stefano Urso in: Coffee Quality,
Coffee is really responsible for the increased cholesterol?
For years many have argued that basing the idea on a (well) know research named “Tromsoe Heart Study”. This one had shown a link between 14,500 Norwegians elevated cholesterol and their coffee consumption.
We know we have to pay attention to the method used into a scientific study and, in fact, reading it deeply it turns out that the study was conducted in the Nordic countries where coffee is boiled without filtration. It’s this procedure without filtration that’s responsible for increasing cholesterol because it crosses into the cup two substances, cafeolo and cafestolo, that are the lipid fraction of the coffee.
This cholesterol increasing does not occur by drinking filtered coffee, soluble, espresso or mocha. (as revealed by a study by Jee SH, He J, Appel LI, Whelton PK, Suh I, Klag MJ, released in 2001 on “American Journal of Epidemiology”). Therefore, analyzing the various studies conducted in many countries, we can now conclude that coffee consumption does not contribute in increasing cholesterol values into people. As a matter of fact cholesterol is a fat that is present only into foods of animal origin and not from plants such as coffee is. It’s true that coffee contains fat, but the percentage that is contained in a cup is so minimal as not to raise levels of cholesterol in the blood.
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