New Delhi, January 8 (IANS). A research has revealed that coffee has many health benefits. But the best time to drink it is in the morning.
Research published in the European Heart Journal has shown that people who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from heart disease. They also have a lower risk of mortality compared to people who drink coffee throughout the day.
Researchers at Tulane University in the US showed that morning coffee drinkers were 16 percent less likely to die from any cause and 31 percent less likely to die from heart disease.
However, no reduction in risk was found in people who drank coffee throughout the day compared to those who did not drink coffee.
Dr. Lu Qi, a professor at Tulane, said, “This is the first research of its kind to examine the timing patterns and health outcomes of coffee drinking. Our findings show that it is not just important whether or not you drink coffee. Not only how much coffee you drink, but what time of the day you drink it is very important.”
In the study, researchers analyzed data from 40,725 adults between 1999 and 2018.
As part of the study, participants were questioned about their daily diet. He was asked how much coffee did you drink in a day and at what time? The research also included a sub-group of 1,463 people who were asked to fill out a detailed food and drink diary for an entire week.
The team linked the information with records of deaths and causes of death for nine to 10 years.
More than one in three people in the study were morning coffee drinkers (they drank coffee mainly before noon), and less than one in four drank coffee throughout the day (morning, afternoon and evening). These were compared to 48 percent of non-coffee drinkers.
However, the study does not explain how drinking coffee in the morning reduces the risk of death from heart disease.
“One possible explanation is that drinking coffee in the afternoon or evening may disrupt circadian rhythms and hormone levels such as melatonin. This, in turn, leads to changes in cardiovascular risk factors such as inflammation and blood pressure,” Qi said.
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