Can coffee Cause Weight Gain?

By The Daily Meal | Healthy Living

Flickr/epSos.deGuess this means we'll be holding off on the daily cups of coffee from now on: A new study published in the Journal of Agricultural and food Chemistry has found that too muchcoffee can increase weight gain and fat cell retention.

Researchers at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and the University of Western Australia's School of Medicine and Pharmacology examined a compound called chlorogenic acid (CGA), found in coffee.

Researchers were hoping that CGAs would specifically increase insulin sensitivity, reduce blood pressure, and decrease body fat thanks to previous research showing that coffee reduced the risk of type-2 diabetes. Unfortunately, the study did just the opposite.

Researchers fed CGAs to obese lab mice that were put on a high-fat diet for 12 weeks; the animals were fed enough CGAs to account for six cups of coffee a day.

Instead of losing weight, however, the mice gained weight; the results were either the same as feeding mice regular food, or worse. The CGAs "had no beneficial effect on their blood sugar levels and also, a little bit more worrying, the mice on this coffee compound tended to accumulate fat in their liver," University of Western Australia's Kevin Croft told The Age.

So the results? Assistant professor Vance Matthews says that three to four cups a day does still decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes, but more than five or six cups a day could reverse the process. In fact, it might actually case an "abnormal retention of fat within cells." No wonder the FDA is worried about crazy kids binging on caffeine.

-Jessica Chou, The Daily Meal

I am sitting here drinking my morning coffee...

It's is my treat and I refuse to read this article

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Not sure i buy it. When I am craving snacky food - coffee kills that desire.

I think it is noteworthy to read the very end of the original post...three to four cups per day is considered beneficial (per the study)--it's just a negative study result when 5-6 or more cups are drank each day...I am not saying I have not ever drank that much coffee in a day, but almost always I have three or less in a day

But it's the only drug I got left

:-)

And I'm down to mostly decaf...

Good thing we aren't mice who eat a high fat diet. LOL

I don't think any of us can down 5-6 cups of coffee a day and still get our protein and water in. I know I can't finish one cup now.

I could make do with just one cup...

Oh gosh it hurt me to read this! I have a daily ritual of making my coffe with just the right amount of flavorings added in. I refuse to give it up its my one sweet awesome thing I let myself have.

oh, I have posted about this. coffee has become something of an addiction for me. I have always drank coffee, but, I have to count my cups these days. If a cup is 8 oz... well, I can easily hit 5 of those a day. If a cup is 16 oz, well, i am good then.

Perhaps really the problem IS the definition of the word "cup"

I'm still pre-op, and I've mentioned this before, but my favorite indulgence every morning used to be a full 20-oz. coffee from Dunkin' Donuts. Light (with cream), flavored with Butter Pecan syrup (NOT sugar free) and 2 Splenda, to make me feel like I was making a "healthy" choice. I actually asked the girl behind the counter how many cups that size could use up a full pot of coffee, and she said "Oh, about two." Some days I drank two cups. I told myself it was "two cups" but it was actually more like one POT of coffee a day. Waaaaay too much.

Logging in to MFP and finding out there were a whopping 350 calories in each of my morning and afternoon guzzles gave me the shock I needed to quit cold turkey. If I'm taking in that many calories, I want to at least CHEW them!

Eventually I'll let the caffeine monkey climb up on my back again, but for now, no cuppa joe for me.

Ok there is coffee and there is the crap people add to it. I am talking about coffee!

Assistant professor Vance Matthews says that three to four cups a day does still decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes, but more than five or six cups a day could reverse the process."

The problem is EXCESSIVE coffee consumption. Many things are healthy in small quantities and unhealthy in large quantities. MOST people aren't drinking more than six cups of coffee a day.

I am sitting here drinking my morning coffee...

It's is my treat and I refuse to read this article

>_<

I agree!!