> Although some participants in the study drank 25 cups a day, the average intake among the highest coffee consumption group was five cups a day There's an obv

> Although some participants in the study drank 25 cups a day, the average intake among the highest coffee consumption group was five cups a day There's an obvious sampling bias, where if Joyful Joe is happily guzzling his 25 cups a day, he's probably not fighting weird heartbeats and trouble breathing the whole time, whereas Jittery Jim has one cup and talks the ears off his local beleaguered 7-11 worker and has to be dragged out by security only to spend the night awake in bed chewing every loose bit and bob off his own fingers. Also, IIRC when people say people with heart conditions shouldn't drink coffee they mean "because stimulant overdoses screw up the heart's electrical rhythms and can turn not-so-good oopsies into fatal oopsies" and not "because you'll have a heart attack in 50 years". Heart attacks in 50 years are, however, a good reason to keep away from the delicious cookies you are probably disappearing into your hungry feeding tube washed down with a milk-and-sugar mixture sold at a huge markup because it contains 0.5g of plant material painstakingly harvested by faraway children, but definitely not 25 times a day, because no one's that rich. > The research also showed that moderate and heavy coffee drinkers were most likely to be male, smoke and consume alcohol regularly Oh, well, they're dying of heart disease either way, might as well have fun doing it.