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Black coffee, even with a teaspoon or sugar has to be better than soda or the sugary monstrosities from Starbucks that are excluded from the study. One can of

Black coffee, even with a teaspoon or sugar has to be better than soda or the sugary monstrosities from Starbucks that are excluded from the study. One can of coke contains 39g (~7 teaspoons) of sugar. This study seems to be less about the benefits of coffee but rather the health risks of sugar.

rightbyte 4y ago
> sugary monstrosities from Starbucks Does Starbucks add sugar to the coffee? Or what do you mean. The ice coffee?
- rngname22 4y ago
  Coffee-flavored milkshakes / cups of syrup and foam and whipped cream and caramel. They serve coffee also. If you google 'starbucks unhealthiest drinks', you'll find references to stuff like 'cinnamon roll frappucino blended coffee' which apparently had 85 grams of sugar in its largest size and 510 calories. If you're familiar with the 'packets' of sugar people sometimes sweeten coffee or tea with, 85 grams is like 20 packets. The 'sweetened cup of coffee' referenced in the study referred to a coffee with about 5 grams of sugar added.
- pengaru 4y ago
  The majority of what they serve are coffee-spiked desserts.
troydavis 4y ago
> This study seems to be less about the benefits of coffee but rather the health risks of sugar. The control was not drinking coffee, and far lower all-cause mortality was observed in both black coffee and coffee with a tiny bit of sugar. Or: Yes, adding a ton of sugar to anything is unhealthy, but this study provides far more information than that. Although it's observational, the observed effect is huge. From the study: "Compared with nonconsumers, consumers of various amounts of unsweetened coffee (>0 to 1.5, >1.5 to 2.5, >2.5 to 3.5, >3.5 to 4.5, and >4.5 drinks/d) had lower risks for all-cause mortality after adjustment for lifestyle, sociodemographic, and clinical factors," [then repeats for lightly sugar-sweetened coffee, but not artificially-sweetened coffee].
- goda90 4y ago
  "Nonconsumers" didn't factor soda drinking, energy drinking, etc. So it lumped people who were drinking larges amounts of sugar with people drinking little sugar(tea, water), and compared them to coffee drinkers, which are low to moderate amounts of sugar.
vangelis 4y ago
No one is forcing you to order a frappuccino. You do realize you can get drip coffee (actually pretty good) and espresso drinks without added sugar there, right?

rightbyte 4y ago

> sugary monstrosities from Starbucks Does Starbucks add sugar to the coffee? Or what do you mean. The ice coffee?

rngname22 4y ago
Coffee-flavored milkshakes / cups of syrup and foam and whipped cream and caramel. They serve coffee also. If you google 'starbucks unhealthiest drinks', you'll find references to stuff like 'cinnamon roll frappucino blended coffee' which apparently had 85 grams of sugar in its largest size and 510 calories. If you're familiar with the 'packets' of sugar people sometimes sweeten coffee or tea with, 85 grams is like 20 packets. The 'sweetened cup of coffee' referenced in the study referred to a coffee with about 5 grams of sugar added.
pengaru 4y ago
The majority of what they serve are coffee-spiked desserts.

troydavis 4y ago

> This study seems to be less about the benefits of coffee but rather the health risks of sugar. The control was not drinking coffee, and far lower all-cause mortality was observed in both black coffee and coffee with a tiny bit of sugar. Or: Yes, adding a ton of sugar to anything is unhealthy, but this study provides far more information than that. Although it's observational, the observed effect is huge. From the study: "Compared with nonconsumers, consumers of various amounts of unsweetened coffee (>0 to 1.5, >1.5 to 2.5, >2.5 to 3.5, >3.5 to 4.5, and >4.5 drinks/d) had lower risks for all-cause mortality after adjustment for lifestyle, sociodemographic, and clinical factors," [then repeats for lightly sugar-sweetened coffee, but not artificially-sweetened coffee].

goda90 4y ago
"Nonconsumers" didn't factor soda drinking, energy drinking, etc. So it lumped people who were drinking larges amounts of sugar with people drinking little sugar(tea, water), and compared them to coffee drinkers, which are low to moderate amounts of sugar.

vangelis 4y ago

No one is forcing you to order a frappuccino. You do realize you can get drip coffee (actually pretty good) and espresso drinks without added sugar there, right?