{"id":1455222,"date":"2022-04-27T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455222"},"modified":"2022-04-27T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T13:01:08","slug":"throw-this-type-of-coffee-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/throw-this-type-of-coffee-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw This Type of Coffee Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthrow-this-type-of-coffee-away%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h3>K-Cups Suck<\/h3>\n<p>Even John Sylvan, the guy who invented them, thinks they suck. He figured they&#8217;d only be used by heartless corporations to caffeinate their despondent employees, or maybe by rumpled police detectives who wanted to coerce a confession out of some serial killer.<\/p>\n<p>America surprised the shit out of him, though. If recent stats can be believed, over 75 million Americans have K-Cup machines or K-Cup knock-offs in their homes and they use them multiple times a day. Americans ignored their high cost, their environmental destructiveness, and their scorched metal taste and filled their cupboards with the tiny pods.<\/p>\n<p>K-Cup drinkers might have a problem, though, and it&#8217;s far worse that just having the palates of goats. It seems that people who drink K-Cups \u2013 or any kind of unfiltered coffee \u2013 might be more susceptible to heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>At least those were the findings of two large Scandinavian studies comparing the effects of filtered coffee to unfiltered coffee (of which K-Cups are an example).<\/p>\n<div class=\"so-accordion-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"so-tab\"><input id=\"so-tab-1\" type=\"checkbox\" name=\"tabs\" \/> <label for=\"so-tab-1\"><\/p>\n<h3>Vun Lump or Two, My Little Lingonberry Torte?<\/h3>\n<p><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"so-tab-content\">\n<p>Swedish scientists found that drinking coffee made with paper filters lowered the risk of dying by 15%. Their study, which appeared in the European Journal of Cardiology, provided &#8220;strong and convincing evidence of a link between coffee brewing methods, heart attacks, and longevity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, unfiltered coffee contains 30 times more &#8220;harmful substances&#8221; than filtered cups and removing these substances \u2013 via paper filters \u2013 results in reduced cholesterol and significantly fewer cardiovascular related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Lest you think this was some Podunk study done with three mice that live in the back of a Starbucks, the scientists came to their conclusions after tracking 508,747 Norwegian men and women between the years 1985 and 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Another study conducted by Swedish scientists, this one in the Journal of Internal Medicine, also found healthful benefits from drinking filtered coffee, but this time concerning Type 2 diabetes. People who drank two to three cups of filtered coffee a day had a 60% lower chance of developing the disease than those who drank less than one filtered cup of coffee a day.<\/p>\n<p>While not as large a study as the previous one, this latter study involved almost 900 men and women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"so-tab\"><input id=\"so-tab-2\" type=\"checkbox\" name=\"tabs\" \/> <label for=\"so-tab-2\"><\/p>\n<h3>What the What?<\/h3>\n<p><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"so-tab-content\">\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The benefits from drinking filtered coffee apparently have to do with diterpines, which is a fun word to say. Go ahead, say it: diterpines. Fun!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the paper filters remove the diterpines from the coffee, subsequently allowing coffee to convey its healthful effects through the actions of different phenolic substances.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s odd in a way because diterpines have a reputation as being both antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory, but chemicals often act in different ways than you expect them to when they&#8217;re combined with other chemicals, as might be the case with unfiltered coffee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"so-tab\"><input id=\"so-tab-3\" type=\"checkbox\" name=\"tabs\" \/> <label for=\"so-tab-3\"><\/p>\n<h3>How to Use This Info<\/h3>\n<p><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"so-tab-content\">\n<p>Luckily, boiled, unfiltered coffee isn&#8217;t something you typically see in the U.S. unless you&#8217;re sitting around the campfire after a day of driving cattle from Texas to Montana. No, it&#8217;s more of a European thing. However, you do see plenty of people in the U.S. drinking the aforementioned K-Cups, which of course don&#8217;t use a filter.<\/p>\n<p>Another example of unfiltered coffee is espresso. While espresso makers typically use a metal filter, they don&#8217;t remove diterpines like paper filters. Likewise, plenty of Americans use metal filters covered with a microscopic layer of gold when making drip coffee and they too lack the ability to remove the diterpines.<\/p>\n<p>This filtered coffee vs. unfiltered coffee thing might go a long way in explaining some of the inconsistencies we sometimes see between scientific papers on the benefits of coffee. While most give coffee a hearty thumbs up, some find negative associations between coffee and health, such as those that accuse coffee of raising cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the ones where coffee didn&#8217;t do so well used unfiltered coffee?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, most Americans are already drinking coffee dripped through paper filters. To them, I say carry on. The K-Cup drinkers might, however, want to go back to their old Mr. Coffee makers. Likewise, espresso drinkers might have reason to put aside their fancy-schmancy European airs and reconsider their choice of drink.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-Cups Suck Even John Sylvan, the guy who invented them, thinks they suck. 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