Re: Coffee and cholestrol

From: Matti Narkia (mnng1_REMOVE_THIS_at_despammed.com)
Date: 10/07/04


Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:48:44 +0300

06 Oct 2004 19:41:17 GMT in article
<Xns957AA053CF58Asome1outthere@38.144.126.103> listener
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>fyfpoon@hotmail.com (francispoon) wrote in
>news:936eaee8.0410060953.659a739c@posting.google.com:
>
>> A doctor in Vancouver told my friend that coffee increases the bad
>> cholestrol in our body. Is there any truth to that?
>>
>> All views appreciated,
>>
>> FP
>>
>
>There was a study in 2001 that found a statistically significant dose
>response between (unfiltered)coffee drinking and both total and low-density
>lipoprotein cholesterol levels. There is also some research that purports a
>rise in homocysteine levels coffee. I think in both instances it relates to
>regular coffee (not decaf) and 4 - 6 cups per day.
>
You are right on both accounts: unfiltered coffee raises cholesterol and
large amount (1 L) of unfiltered coffee daily raises serum homocysteine
concentration. Coffee contains cholesterol raising substances called
cafestol and kahweol, which are retained by a paper filter.

I'm not sure if decaf has cafestol and kahweol left, but my guess is that it
has. If it has and if it's not filtered, it will probably also raise
cholesterol.

Related Medline references:

Ahola I, Jauhiainen M, Aro A.
The hypercholesterolaemic factor in boiled coffee is retained by a paper
filter.
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Urgert R, Weusten-van der Wouw MP, Hovenier R, Lund-Larsen PG, Katan MB.
Chronic consumers of boiled coffee have elevated serum levels of
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Gross G, Jaccaud E, Huggett AC.
Analysis of the content of the diterpenes cafestol and kahweol in coffee
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Post SM, de Wit EC, Princen HM.
Cafestol, the cholesterol-raising factor in boiled coffee, suppresses bile
acid synthesis by downregulation of cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase and
sterol 27-hydroxylase in rat hepatocytes.
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PMID: 9409294 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE
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Rustan AC, Halvorsen B, Huggett AC, Ranheim T, Drevon CA.
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Urgert R, Weusten-van der Wouw MP, Hovenier R, Meyboom S, Beynen AC,
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Strandhagen E, Landaas S, Thelle DS.
Folic acid supplement decreases the homocysteine increasing effect of
filtered coffee. A randomised placebo-controlled study.
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-- 
Matti Narkia


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