{"id":857957,"date":"2026-08-17T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857957\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:24:12","slug":"beloved-drink-linked-to-less-body-fat-and-more-muscle-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857957\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved drink linked to less body fat and more muscle: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go ahead and pour another cup.<\/p>\n

While some may find extra padding more attractive<\/a>, too much body fat can be harmful to health, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and more.<\/p>\n

However, a leaner physique could be one drink away, according to research<\/a> out of Finland, and it\u2019s one of the most widely consumed beverages worldwide.<\/p>\n

\"AA study from Finland has found one of the most popular drinks could be linked to less body fat and more muscle mass. OnPoint\/peopleimages.com \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Probably already part of your daily or morning routine, a morning cup of joe does a lot of heavy lifting for health.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0reshaping gut bacteria<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0keeping you young<\/a>, the benefits of coffee are far and wide.<\/p>\n

And now there\u2019s more good news for java junkies, according to a study from the University of Oulu.<\/p>\n

Those who regularly drink coffee were found to have a leaner body composition, with less body fat and increased muscle mass, than those who didn\u2019t have a cup.<\/p>\n

Researchers asked more than 2,200 participants to answer questionnaires regarding their health, diet, physical activity, medications, diagnosed conditions and lifestyle habits \u2014 including daily coffee intake.<\/p>\n

The amount of coffee consumed ranged from none to at least five cups per day.<\/p>\n

The study didn\u2019t include details of cup size, brewing methods or the addition of flavoring, milk or sugar, though.<\/p>\n

After fasting overnight and avoiding coffee, the team estimated body fat and muscle, collected blood and gave participants a glucose drink to see how their bodies handled sugar over two hours.<\/p>\n

\"ManGreater daily coffee intake was associated with lower total body fat, more skeletal muscle mass and less visceral fat. Elnur \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Those who drank more coffee had greater skeletal muscle mass, lower total body fat and less visceral fat<\/a>, or abdominal fat around internal organs\u00a0that\u2019s closely linked to several health issues like cardiovascular disease and even\u00a0inflammatory skin conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But while a link was found between greater coffee consumption, less body fat and more muscle, the research doesn\u2019t prove that the beverage directly reduces fat or builds muscle.<\/p>\n

What the researchers did find was that higher coffee intake was linked to lower levels of three branched-chain amino acids<\/a> (BCAAs) \u2014 leucine, isoleucine and valine \u2014 or protein building blocks.<\/p>\n

Chronically high levels of these three amino acids are strongly associated<\/a> with insulin resistance and a higher risk of diabetes.<\/p>\n

However, while lower levels of these BCAAs may be present in a healthy metabolic pattern, the findings of the study didn\u2019t show that coffee specifically lowered these amino acids.<\/p>\n

And sometimes, drinking more coffee led to less favorable health outcomes, such as in men who had higher levels of some cholesterol-carrying lipoprotein particles and lower measures of omega-3 fats.<\/p>\n

Men and women also had different glucose responses to more coffee.<\/p>\n

Men tended to have lower fasting insulin and lower insulin levels, while women showed fewer and weaker links between coffee and glucose control.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoffee is consumed by millions of people every day, yet we still know surprisingly little about how it relates to our metabolism and hormones,\u201d lead study author Luca Verroest said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat stood out in our findings was a distinct hormonal signature that didn\u2019t disappear even after we took into account BMI and lifestyle factors, with several of these associations differing between men and women,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Go ahead and pour another cup. While some may find extra padding more attractive, too much body fat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,1293,27581,4244,1835,137,532,12429],"class_list":["post-857957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-body","tag-caffeine","tag-coffee","tag-diabetes","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-study-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}