The study mentions that results may not apply to unfiltered coffee (eg, French press, Scandinavian boiled, or Turkish/Greek coffee). Other studies have shown that cholesterol-raising factor in coffee does not pass a paper filter.
And yet other studies are increasingly pointing towards dietary cholesterol intake not being such an important causal factor for CVD after all [1], and that important evidence going against the cholesterol-is-bad theory was never published properly [2] since the people doing the studies thought the data was flawed since it went against the prevailing theory.
[1] http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1846638&atab=7
[2] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/04/15/fro...
I still love eggs fried in butter. But otherwise, I mostly use olive oil. Or almond butter.
Example: toasted slice of yeast bread (my recipe is 50% white, 20% rye, 30% wholemeal) with jam or with a slice of cheese or hummus or fool maddamas or an apple. Just no butter/marge/whatever.
I do now have butter and toast a couple of times a week.
Meta: Downvotes on original post, HN is very touchy on diet. Good heavens.
Getting into rye and spelt though.
Sorry. Ignore my previous comment(s).
It comes from cafestol and kahweol. They seem to affect cholesterol regulation in the body. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.nutr.17.1.3...
To which I'd like to add: It's sugar and carbs that are doing the damage. The bad reputation of cholesterol is at this point a myth, a myth that more need to be aware of.
But, as I said, I've seen cardiac specialists. At least twice, over the years. They basically said to drink less coffee. But they found no evidence of heart damage.
premature ventricular contractions are basically extra heart beats that disrupt the normal rythm. If you have the feeling that your heart skips a beat, that's most likely caused by a premature ventricular contraction. It can be caused by heart problems but is in itself apparently harmless.
(note: I am not a doctor)
If I need to work a long day, I take another 50mg, plus more coffee.
I found Modafinil to be somewhat worthless due to it only coming as an instant release tab and the resulting insta-tolerance.
I've been drinking coffee for some decades. And taking modafinil for at least one decade.
I do know from experience that I'll have headache if I cut off coffee. If I cut modafinil, I'll just not feel like doing anything, and sleep a lot.
Furthermore, the connection between cholesterol and heart disease is greatly overstated. The true culprit is sugar and too many carbs. In most cases sugar/carbs will kill you before cholesterol will.
The study links improved health and coffee, with its statistics. People drinking a handful of 8 oz. cups of coffee (black? light and sweet?) seem to do better, having somewhat healthier hearts with less disease, than the control group of consumers of exclusively non-caffeinated substances (naming brewed coffee specifically). Coffee drinkers do best when consuming 24 to 40 fluid ounces of brewed coffee, distributed throughout waking hours, with the range of optimum quantities likely varying based on body weight.
According to this research, excessive drinking of coffee at 80 ounces (or more?) is as bad (or worse?) than drinking none at all. The research examines 1,279,804 participants and 36,352 heart disease cases.
Is this black coffees, or 800 kcal creamed and sugared lattes?
For a while I used a metal reusable mesh filter but my measured cholesterol was elevated during this period.
Also, just my anecdata.
Espresso is definitely not filtered, the oils are necessary for a good crema. There's a fascinating review paper on crema with lots of pictures and microscope images by E. Illy et al. (yes, that Illy) on the subject.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11483-011-9220-5 [open access]
The ironic side of the study is that since expresso coffee has more cafesol than filtered coffee (but less than french press), if people start to use more their nespresso the population study would probably change.
See this: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/02/23/ask-...
Quoting:
9. Is drinking coffee made with a paper filter healthier than drinking boiled coffee or other types of coffee?
Coffee contains a substance called cafestol that is a potent stimulator of LDL-cholesterol levels (12). Cafestol is found in the oily fraction of coffee, and when you brew coffee with a paper filter, the cafestol gets left behind in the filter. Other methods of coffee preparation, such as the boiled coffee common in Scandinavian countries, French press coffee, or Turkish coffee, are much higher in cafestol. So for people who have high cholesterol levels or who want to prevent having high cholesterol levels, it is better to choose paper filtered coffee or instant coffee, since they have much lower levels of cafestol than boiled or French press coffee. Espresso is somewhere in the middle; it has less cafestol than boiled or French press coffee, but more than paper filtered coffee.
Urgert R, Katan MB. The cholesterol-raising factor from coffee beans. Annu Rev Nutr. 1997;17:305-24.