Daily moderate coffee intake is good for your health. Americans should even drink more coffee, according to the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC).
The panel cited minimal health risks associated with drinking between three and five cups per day. It also said that consuming as many as five cups of coffee each day (400 mg) is tied to several health benefits, including a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
Now this doesn’t mean that drinking between three and five cups of coffee per day correlates will necessarily make you healthier or stronger. It might. But even if it doesn’t, it’s unlikely to do anything other than make you more alert and awake.
“I don’t want to get into implying coffee cures cancer — nobody thinks that,” Tom Brenna, a member of the committee and a nutritionist at Cornell University, told Bloomberg on Thursday. “But there is no evidence for increased risk, if anything, the other way around.”
The report can be downloaded at this link (pdf file): http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015-scientific-report/PDFs/10-Part-D-Chapter-5.pdf
