And you probably already have it in your house.
A study released this week in the journal Scientific Reports finds that drinking a cup of coffee may help humans tackle obesity and diabetes. That’s because coffee may stimulate “brown fat,” which helps generate body heat by burning calories.
Symonds notes that this is “the first study in humans to show that something like a cup of coffee can have a direct effect on our brown fat functions. The potential implications of our results are pretty big, as obesity is a major health concern for society and we also have a growing diabetes epidemic and brown fat could potentially be part of the solution in tackling them.”
And it’s clearly not a panacea for our obesity problems: Most Americans say they already drink coffee, and more than one-third are considered obese. Symonds tells MarketWatch that “it’s all about overall energy balance” so people who eat too much or are inactive, for example, will “counteract any stimulation of brown fat [from] coffee.”
This isn’t the only study to suggest that coffee can benefit your health. A 2015 study published in the journal Circulation found that drinking coffee was associated with an 8%-15% reduced risk of early death. And Harvard Medical School notes that it may cut your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some types of cancer.
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