What coffee does to the body
It is noted that some studies on the effects of coffee on health have yielded controversial results.
Caffeine is the most popular psychoactive drug in the world. People have been drinking coffee for centuries, but its effects on human health have been controversial for decades.
“Traditionally, coffee has been considered harmful,” Mark Gunter, professor of cancer epidemiology at Imperial College London and former head of the nutrition and metabolism section of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), was quoted as saying by the BBC. “Studies in the 1980s and 90s showed that coffee drinkers had an increased risk of heart disease, but that has changed since then.”
Coffee has been linked to an increased risk of cancer because it contains the carcinogen acrylamide. However, in 2016, IARC came to…
