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Study Finds Coffee Drinkers Have Less Fat, More Muscle, and Are Better Than You in Every Way

Researchers linked higher coffee intake to less body fat, more muscle and hormonal differences, though the study can’t prove coffee caused them.

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It’s the kind of scientific finding that seems tailor-made for an entire industry to turn into a marketing ploy preying on people’s most vain instincts: a recent study found that coffee drinkers overall have less fat, are more muscular, and, wouldn’t you know it, have some fascinating differences in their sex hormones compared with non-coffee drinkers. Coffee, it seems, according to one study, is some kind of magical elixir that makes you a better person.

In a study published in the European Journal of Nutrition, researchers from the University of Oulu in Finland examined 2,264 people from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966, all of whom were 46 years old. They........

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