New data suggest even paper-filtered coffee may raise “bad” LDL cholesterol.
In my video from more than a decade ago called Is Coffee Bad for You?, I explained that the “cholesterol-raising factor from…coffee does not pass [through] a paper filter.”
As I discuss in my recent video Does Coffee Affect Cholesterol?, if you give people French press coffee, which is filtered but without paper, their cholesterol starts swelling up within just two weeks, as you can see below and at 0:22 in the video.
But, if you switch them to paper-filtered coffee, their cholesterol comes right back down. It’s the same amount of coffee, just prepared differently.
The cholesterol-raising factor from coffee beans has since been identified as the fatty substances in the oil within coffee beans.
The cholesterol-raising factor from coffee beans has since been identified as the fatty substances in the oil within coffee beans.
One reason it took us so long to figure that out is that they didn’t raise cholesterol in rats, hamsters, or even in monkeys, but did in human beings, as you can see below and at 0:45 in my video. READ MORE...
