Study Says Light Coffee Drinking Bad for Heart
A new study on the effects of coffee as relates to cardiovascular difficulties is sure to add more fuel to the caffeinated fire of coffee???s potential health effects. This study, as reported by HealthDay, found that ???one cup or less of coffee per day may set off heart attacks in people with a sedentary lifestyle or with three or more risk factors for heart disease???. The focus was 503 nonfatal heart attack cases that occurred between 1994 and 1998 in Costa Rica, with researchers only looking at what occurred the first hour after coffee was consumed. It was noted that “light (one cup daily) and moderate (two to three cups daily) coffee consumption was linked to a higher incidence of first, nonfatal heart attacks when compared with heavy (four cups or more daily) coffee consumption”.
