Coffee and heart disease – plenty of caffeine actually prevents heart disease if you’re over 65.

Researchers from the SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Brooklyn College have discovered that drinking plenty of coffee protects the over-65s from heart disease.

Decaf won’t help, as it’s the caffeine in coffee that has the protective effect.

According to John Kassotis, MD, "The protection against death from heart disease in the elderly afforded by caffeine is likely due to caffeine's enhancement of blood pressure."

Best of all, if you’re over 65 and a coffee lover, it seems the benefits are dose-related. That is to say, the more coffee you drink, the greater the protection provided.

This does not, of course, mean you should be self-treating existing heart conditions with huge amounts of coffee each day.

Coffee isn’t a treatment for anything, least of all heart disease.

But it is reassuring to see that as each month goes by, more and more studies are revealing a broad range of health benefits associated with drinking coffee.

Coffee is not only delicious, and the perfect way to wake up each morning, but it is also good for our health.


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