Coffee and Cholesterol: The Facts and the Fiction

Coffee and Cholesterol: What you need to know...

Drinking your coffee black or decaffeinated to keep cholesterol in check? Think again.

Cafestol, a compound found in coffee, elevates cholesterol by hijacking a receptor in an intestinal pathway critical to its regulation, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the July issue of the journal Molecular Endocrinology. Full Article at Science Daily

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