An emergency room doctor advises drinking up to five cups of coffee a day without harm to your health.
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Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur is an emergency physician at the Montreal Heart Institute. In a Facebook post this week, he cites a recent review from the American Heart Association that says you can consume up to 400 mg of caffeine per day. This is approximately three to five servings of black coffee.
“Until you drown them in sugar and cream,” he wrote on his social networks.
“I certainly wouldn’t classify sugar as coffee, that’s clear,” he said in an interview with QUB Radio and Television that was simulcast on 99.5 FM in Montreal on Friday.
Referring to American nutritionists, he believes that drinking coffee will have a preventive effect.
“The goal of my status was that, ultimately, coffee, which may have been feared by cardiologists especially for a long time, was even good for the heart,” said Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur.
Because of the increased heart rate that some people experience, coffee hasn’t always had a good image, he said.
“We’ve long been afraid of coffee because it sometimes causes palpitations in some sensitive people, which is not necessarily serious, but unpleasant. It remains exciting, but we see that for the heart, the long-term evidence appears to be very favorable,” he said.
However, the emergency doctor notes that experts don’t necessarily recommend drinking coffee for everyone. However, this drink contains side effects such as insomnia and anxiety.
“So with those caveats in mind, cardiologists are simply saying we should stop being afraid of coffee,” says Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur.
Listen to the full interview in the excerpts above.