Most of us don’t need much convincing to enjoy a freshly brewed coffee, with 95 million cups consumed each day in the UK alone. Thankfully, this is one habit that might actually help us lose weight, according to Dr Michael Mosley.
In his BBC podcast Just One Thing, Dr Mosley breaks the good news that coffee is not only great at keeping us awake, but can actually help shed those extra pounds. The nutrition and diet expert explains how various studies have found the “powerful” caffeine stimulant in coffee to encourage fat burning.
Dr Mosley told his listeners: “Coffee aficionados will be delighted to hear that their favourite brew may even help burn calories. A recent Nottingham University study showed that drinking coffee stimulates brown fat, and one of the main functions of brown fat is to generate body heat by burning calories. Other recent research showed that women who drank two to three cups of coffee a day had less total body fat and abdominal fat than those who didn't drink any.”
