Friday, July 5, 2019

Research Check: can drinking coffee help you lose weight?

As keen as we may be to hear about any health benefits of drinking coffee, the headlines aren’t always what they seem. Janko Ferlic/UnsplashResearchers from the University of Nottingham in the UK recently published a study in the journal Scientific Reports suggesting caffeine increases brown fat. This caught people’s attention because brown fat activity burns energy, which may help with weight loss. Headlines claimed drinking coffee can help you lose weight, and that coffee is possibly even the “secret to fighting obesity”. Unfortunately, it’s a little more complicated than that. The researchers did find caffeine stimulated brown fat, but this was mainly in cells in a lab. For a human to reap the benefits seen in the cells, we estimate they’d need to drink at

from http://theconversation.com/research-check-can-drinking-coffee-help-you-lose-weight-119740

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