Wednesday, 5 June 2019

Do you drink 25 cups of coffee a day? good news



According to a newspaper report scientists have found that 25 cups a day is not bad for you.
this was from British Heart Foundation funded research lead investigator Professor S. Petersen QMW
for more medical research on the health impact of coffee drinking see these reviews from PubMed
and search the database for links to abstracts and full text scientific articles

Further research on positive impacts can also be found on the coffee and health website from The Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC) . However be aware membership is related to a number of coffee companies


How much coffee is consumed in the UK?

British Coffee Association records 95 million cups.
in this report on the industry page 25 it estimates average number of cups drunk -
in a survey of 2,000 published in 2017-.  28 per cent of the participants indicated that they consumed zero cups of coffee per day, 18.8 per cent one cup per day and 18.9 per cent consume two.  6 per cent of the survey participants indicated that they consumed six cups of coffee or more per day
The report also has interesting facts on takeaway and home  coffee sales and employment in the industry
According to the Office of National Statistics this is costing us more as coffee has increased in price by 42% from 2007-2017
the National Diet and Nutrition surveys look at total consumption of food and drink and include facts on tea and coffee. Although this recent BMJ article has considered how it ought to be measured more accurately

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