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IceCreamGee wrote: ↑ Excuse my ignorance, but don't you want to avoid brewing coffee without filters because they can not remove the "harmful" oils? Typically why french presses and these siphon machines are frowned upon by some in the coffee community

IceCreamGee wrote: ↑ Excuse my ignorance, but don't you want to avoid brewing coffee without filters because they can not remove the "harmful" oils? Typically why french presses and these siphon machines are frowned upon by some in the coffee community

c3apollyon wrote: ↑ To provide evidence of the position that unfiltered coffee is worse for you than filtered (just to cut down on the opinionating). Obviously you do you still applies to your choice of beverage/maker.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/health/h ... index.html

The Johns Hopkins researcher notes that in a 1994 study he and his colleagues found an association between coffee consumption and an increased risk of heart disease. But most of the increased risk was linked to coffee drinking before 1975. It was during the mid-1970s, Klag points out, that drip coffee makers became widely used in the United States, making filtered coffee the norm.

Although Klag advises his patients who drink unfiltered coffee to switch to filtered brew, he says that not everyone needs to be overly concerned about the effect of unfiltered coffee on cholesterol. He notes that cholesterol levels are a "combination of how you live, what you eat and what genes you inherit." A healthy person with low cholesterol probably does not need to worry too much about the effect of coffee on cholesterol levels, he says.

A Dutch researcher who has also documented the cholesterol-boosting effect of unfiltered coffee agrees that the risks need to be seen in perspective.

"Unfiltered coffee has much less effect on your heart disease risk than smoking, high blood pressure or being overweight," says Dr. Martijn B. Katan, a professor at the Wageningen Center for Food Sciences and Wageningen University. "But if you want to optimize your cholesterol levels, you should avoid large daily amounts of unfiltered coffee."

Pieces of the puzzle
But filtered vs. unfiltered may not be the most important question to ask about coffee and cholesterol, according to a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.

"People try to pin a culprit" when it comes to coffee and cholesterol, "but people do not live in an isolated world," says Dr. Gail C. Frank, a professor of nutrition in the department of family and consumer sciences at California State University Long Beach. According to Frank, there are "several pieces to the coffee story," including not only whether people drink filtered or unfiltered coffee, but how much they drink and what they are doing besides drinking coffee‹such as smoking.

While unfiltered coffee may contain substances that raise cholesterol levels, many popular coffee drinks sold at coffee houses seem more like desserts than beverages to Frank. The "bolts" of cream and sugary calories raise questions of their own about coffee's effect on cholesterol, she says.

When making decisions about coffee, Frank encourages people not to look for a yes or no answer. It's not a simple question of "do drink coffee" or "don't drink coffee," she says.

Instead, Frank encourages people to "filter through" their own lives and their own cardiovascular risk factors to make a decision about how much and what type of coffee to drink.

c3apollyon wrote: ↑ To provide evidence of the position that unfiltered coffee is worse for you than filtered (just to cut down on the opinionating). Obviously you do you still applies to your choice of beverage/maker.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/health/h ... index.html