Tip The Healthiest Coffee to Drink Search Skip to content Menu Menu follow us Store Articles Community Loyal-T Club Loyal-T Points Rewards Subscribe to Save Search Search The World s Trusted Source & Community for Elite Fitness Diet & Fat LossEating Tip The Healthiest Coffee to Drink We know now that coffee can be a health food But what kind of coffee Here' s the science by Chris Shugart July 22, 2017June 29, 2022 Tags Diet Strategy, Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements, Tips Live Longer Drink Coffee The positive studies on coffee are piling up, and for once science is telling us that something we already love is good for us. It's official, coffee is a health food. Here's what we know so far: Heavy coffee drinkers (6 cups per day) see a 33 percent reduction in diabetes diagnoses. Coffee drinkers are less likely to get heart disease or have strokes. They're also less likely to get Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Liver cancers, kidney disease, fatty livers, and even depression are also more easily avoided by coffee drinkers. Add all this up and various studies have concluded that coffee drinkers live 6 to 24 percent longer than non-coffee drinkers. A new long-term study of 215,000 people reinforces this. In short, coffee lovers who had a cup per day were 12 percent less likely to die. Drink two or three cups and you get an 18 percent reduced chance of death. Here's what interesting about this new study. First, it didn't seem to matter how the coffee drinkers liked their java. Caffeinated coffee and soul-sucking decaffeinated coffee both improved overall health. And most of the coffee drinkers studied weren't choosing organic or anything fancy. What's more, this study was multiethnic: African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Latinos and Vanilla-Americans all benefited from coffee. You want to be anal about this, huh? Okay, according to another study, light roast coffee is better than medium, dark, and French roasts. Why? The roasting process reduces the amount of good stuff, like the antioxidant, chlorogenic acid. The lighter the roast, the shorter the roasting time, the less exposure to air, and the more chlorogenic acid survives. That means better oxidation protection and better protection against that serial killer known as chronic inflammation. Gunter MJ et al. Coffee Drinking and Mortality in 10 European Countries: A Multinational Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2017 Aug 15;167(4):236-247. PMC.. Park SY et al. Association of Coffee Consumption With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Nonwhite Populations. Ann Intern Med. 2017 Aug 15;167(4):228-235. PubMed. Jung S et al. Cellular Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Coffee Extracts with Different Roasting Levels. J Med Food. 2017 Jun;20(6):626-635. PubMed. Get The T Nation Newsletters Don' t Miss Out Expert Insights To Get Stronger, Gain Muscle Faster, And Take Your Lifting To The Next Level related posts Supplements 50 Hits of Nicotine Is nicotine the physique athlete's best friend? Or just a bad habit waiting to happen? Acetyl-L-Carnitine, Beta-Alanine, Nutrition & Supplements, Super Health Chris Shugart April 21 Eating Meat Eaters vs Vegetarians If meat eaters are really sincere about eating meat for its alleged nutritional benefits, they need to take it one step further. Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements TC Luoma January 29 Eating Dave vs Dog Dave s Diet Powerlifting icon Dave Tate was in trouble. Here’s how John Meadows helped him clean up his diet and get healthy. Diet Strategy, Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements John Meadows May 23 Eating Tip Could This Be the Next Super Supplement This new nutritional kid on the block could soon prove to rival curcumin in its broad range of effects. Diet & Fat Loss, Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements TC Luoma July 28