Welcome to Nutrition Facts.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger, and I'm here to ask you, what is the most important

decision you'll make today?

Is it how you'll get to work, who you'll set up a meeting with, what friends you'll

call for lunch?

Well, as it turns out, probably the most important decision you'll make today is what to eat.

What we eat on a day-to-day basis is the number one determinant of our health and longevity.

Literally, most premature deaths in the United States are preventable and related to nutrition.

So, we're going to explore some smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts.

Here we refer to the science, the research, the available data published in the peer-reviewed

medical literature right now.

That's why I wrote my book How Not to Die and why I created my non-profit site NutritionFacts.org

and now this podcast.

New dietary guidelines for beverages recommend tea and coffee second only to water in health

fullness.

But what about concerns that coffee might impair the function of our endothelium, you know,

that life-saving interlayer of our arteries in every vital organ of our body?

While unfiltered coffee tends to raise cholesterol levels, paper-filtered coffee doesn't as much.

Two cups a day might even increase the ability of our arteries to dilate.

Coffee consumption is associated with lower risk of diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, depression,

Parkinson's disease, and chronic liver disease.

But what effect does coffee and tea consumption have on longevity?

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