It turns out that the way you prepare your coffee has a major impact on how good or bad it is for you.
A study published this year in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology that followed half a million Norwegian men and women for 20 years has concluded that the way in which you brew your coffee has a strong influence on your risk for heart attack.
Unfiltered coffee - such as that brewed in a French press, perked or using a Turkish Cezve - contains as much as 30 times the lipid-raising substances as filtered coffee. Daily consumption of unfiltered coffee was linked to elevated levels of total and LDL (bad) cholesterol, more heart attacks and more deaths from all causes than those who drank only filtered coffee - such as is made in a drip coffee maker.
The good news?
Drinking 1 to 4 cups of filtered coffee per day is actually good for your health. Better, in fact, than not drinking coffee at all. Those who consumed filtered coffee daily had a 15% lower risk of death from any cause and a 12%/20% (men/women) lower risk of heart attack. It made no difference if regular or decaf was consumed.
So go ahead and enjoy that second cup.
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