Is Coffee Good or Bad for your Health?

If you’re grabbing that morning cup of coffee right now but wondering if it’s good for your health or not, you now have less to worry about.

I think the big finding is that it’s not bad for your health, especially
the heart, but needs to be used in moderation.

And not being bad for your health, you have to remember, isn’t necessarily the same thing as being good for your health.

Studies just presented at the American Heart Association annual conference showed both some good and not so good points about coffee drinking. On the good side, researchers found that those who drank four cups a day also had a smaller chance of being hospitalized for a heart arrhythmia. And female coffee drinkers even cut their chances of getting type 2 diabetes by over 50 percent, mainly because of the caffeine in the coffee.

But again, not all the news was good. Researchers did find a potential link between coffee and high blood pressure. So I think the bottom line is that coffee isn’t something you want to treat like a medicine but at the same time it appears that drinking it in moderation, even when it has caffeine, won’t hurt your health.