Research continues to show health benefits of coffee, tea, and chocolate

“Findings from this study suggested that higher consumption of coffee may contribute to the lower development of brain cancer in Asian populations. Tea consumption had an inverse association for the risk of brain cancer in American populations, instead of other populations.”

That’s a pretty important footnote that might mean the causal factor here in this study is not coffee or tea, but other foods in the diet. It’s certainly a good reason to pause and question whether to dive into an 8 cups/day routine.

Personally, I think coffee is not healthy for me. I used to drink 4+ cups a day for the last years, but stopped last year. Since I stopped I feel much less stressed, have less problems getting up in the morning, and my sweat stinks less.

I think this claim should have been backed up with a source for the studies that are suggesting people should drink 6-8 cups of coffee each day.

Seems crazy to me! I personally don't drink coffee because I've seen lots of people develop dependency/addiction, even though I'm sure it's not too serious.

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As with most things, overdoing consumption of any substance will have negative implications.

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Bounce out of bed at 100% energy, fluid easy reasoning, easier learning, relaxed, enjoy slow movies, good overall energy, fine with humdrum activities, far less procrastination. Less impatient with people.

The caffeine-energy thing is pretty bogus. The problem for me is that I find it fun.

Just realise that giving up caffine means tapering for many people as the migrained a heavy coffee drinker can get form cold-turkey can be the worst, worse than anything I;ve ever had before. Also, even decaf and cocoa have too much caffeine, and with the reduction in tolerance as you come down in dose, so you become more sensitive. You really have to give it up completely, which is a shame. But the upside is massive.

Because it's a review it provides no new evidence unlike the implication in the title. Instead, it's suggesting possible neural pathways for why the cognitive effects might exist.