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coffee raises cholesterol levels https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31348763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31348763
by RadixDLT 4y ago
coffee raises cholesterol levels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31348763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31348763
- metadat 4y agoIs it the "good" HCL cholesterol or the "bad" kind?
- Someone1234 4y agoIn the study they mostly measured total cholesterol (S-TC), but reference other studies that suggest it may raise LDL ("bad cholesterol"). The level of increase they found was, at most, 0.48 mmol/L, which is around a 5% increase (convert from mmol/L to mg/dL, then based on a 200 mg/dL ideal). So my TL;DR: Even assuming all the S-TC increase was actually LDL (unlikely), you're a woman, and use the unhealthiest brewing method (what the study was about), it still isn't a health problem by itself. Now can you consider coffee unhealthy? Perhaps, but I feel like that was the case without this info.