Coffee makes you fat? what?

That seems unlikely.

It may be that coffee drinkers are heavier on average which could point to some other factor that affects both, such as insufficient sleep (which is know to contribute to and be caused by obesity).

If you share the research you found we could critique.

I drink at least a cup a day and it hasn't affected me. However, depending on what you put in it and where you go (I.e. Starbucks), you can easily drink away half your calorie allotment.

There is evidence that moderate to high caffeine intake can negatively impact cortisol levels, so it is possible that a secondary link exists. It is unlikely to make a meaningful difference in burn rates, but "more than zero" is still something.

Bottom line - even though it is legal and generally accepted by most societies, caffeine is a psychoactive drug. Understand what it can (and can't) do to you, and use your judgement in how you use it.

I drink 20 oz of black coffee a day. It generally helps me from wanting to snack on anything in the morning before lunchtime. I don't know the specifics of the studies the article was talking about, but it likely could just mean they found a correlation between drinking coffee and fat gain, but not causation. Lots of variables in between.

Don't sweat it, and drink up!

http://muscle-insider.com/content/can-coffee-make-you-fat

Linked article ties it to the glycemic index, which has been debunked by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/gi-more-bad-carb-myths.html

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/4/988.abstract

Maybe the 6 doughnuts with every cup may be the culprit?

I drink up to 5 cups a day sometimes! I am not fat. Calorie surplus makes people gain weight.

Too many of my skinny, sedentary geek friends guzzled a pot of coffee every day for me to buy this. Not without a serious stack of peer reviewed studies, anyway. One of them was such a freak of nature he was all wiry muscle and shoveled in more junkfood than I did when we were dating.

I'm ashamed of my coffee habit....wait, what? Nowai. I couldn't survive a day with my crazy kids without some coffee. I even put creamer in it!

I had four cups this morning and a double shot of espresso in the afternoon, I don't log it if it's black coffee. This is everyday, give or take a cup or two. I have been losing. I can have a cup of coffee and go right to sleep. I just love the taste. It also curbs my appetite, and it's free at work and free coffee is so tasty!!!:drinker:

I think I'll keep drinking my coffee. I didn't find anything in pubmed showing a link between coffee drinking and gaining fat -- unless, of course, you add things like lots and lots of sugar and cream, in which case, it's not the coffee what's at fault!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24979152: "Coffee consumption retarded weight gain and improved glucose tolerance in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes and corresponding controls. This gives rise to the expectation that further insight into the mechanism of the diabetes-preventive effect of coffee consumption in humans may be gained by this approach."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25089347: "The present meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies indicated that light to moderate coffee intake is associated with a reduced risk of death from all causes, particularly in women."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24459154: "Coffee consumption was inversely associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes in a dose-response manner. Both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee was associated with reduced diabetes risk."

bullSh t

Yup this sounds like a load of BS!! Going to continue my 2 cups in the AM without thinking twice.

Coffee! The elixir of the Gods.

I say if you enjoy it, drink it. Maybe the correlation is sitting down while one drinks the coffee. LOL!

Shut your mouth...

^^^^ This!