Estimates suggest Americans drink more than 400 million cups of coffee each day, with many people reaching for as many as five cups in any given day. And while consuming too much can have negative side effects, experts have discovered that coffee may reduce your risk of dying from a stroke or heart attack.
It all depends on when you drink it, though, according to a recent study published in the European Heart Journal. Their study looked at data on how much caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee around 40,000 adults from the United States drank every day.
None of the participants had a heart or circulatory disease at the start of the research. Results suggested those who mainly drank coffee in the morning were 31% less likely than non-coffee drinkers to die from a heart or circulatory disease after an average of 10 years, and 16% less likely to die from any cause, according to the
British Heart Foundation.
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However, those who drank coffee throughout the day did not have any significantly lower risk of dying over the following decade when compared with non-coffee drinkers.
Researchers posed that drinking coffee later in the day, and therefore potentially disrupting people’s body clocks, could have offset or lessened other benefits of coffee.
They also suggested drinking coffee before noon may have reduced heart and circulatory disease because coffee contains substances which reduce inflammation – and some molecules in the blood that cause inflammation are more active earlier in the day.
