Drinking more coffee is good for your health. Is it appropriate to drink 600 milliliters a day?

For years, coffee has been known to be bad for your health, bad for your heart, bad for your stomach, and even cause cancer. On the 13th, scientists from many countries said at the ongoing International Coffee Science Association conference that all kinds of prejudice against coffee in the past were unfair. Not only that, coffee can actually reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease or diabetes.

Many scientists believe that for a healthy coffee lover, drinking six cups of coffee a day will not cause damage to the heart or digestive system. However, for nearly two centuries, coffee research has been limited to caffeine, which has led to some misunderstandings.

Researchers at the Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacology in Milan, Italy, said coffee reduced the risk of sclerosis by 80 percent. Coffee may protect men from Parkinson's disease, said Fred Holm, a researcher at Sweden's Karolinska Institute. Researchers at the Vienna Medical School say coffee is more effective than fruits and vegetables in preventing DNA oxidation. DNA oxidation is the root cause of a number of serious diseases, especially cancer.

Tumiletto, a diabetes expert at the University of Helsinki, said that as long as a person drinks five to six cups of coffee a day, the incidence of type 2 diabetes can be halved. Drinking 10 cups of coffee a day reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes by 80%. Finns are the world's biggest coffee drinkers, and it's not unusual for a person to drink 10 cups a day.

Is it appropriate to drink 600 ml per day? Although the researchers wanted to advise people on how much to drink in moderation, they didn't say what kind of coffee a person should drink, how often, or how to drink it. The scientific results presented at the conference were based on American-style coffee cups, and it is generally believed that drinking 600 ml of coffee a day is considered a reasonable amount.

Epidemiologists at Utrecht University Medical Center in the Netherlands studied the heart attack risk of coffee drinkers. Based on current knowledge, he believes, a coffee drinker can continue drinking coffee to his heart's content without causing harm to his health. But he also didn't name a suggested number. "It's difficult to translate observations into medical advice," he said.