Think you're eating healthy? You may be missing this heart-protecting nutrient

[Asia Joe]

A large international study found that fewer than one in five people consume enough flavanols, compounds associated with a lower risk of heart disease.

Adding foods like blueberries, plums, blackberries, broad beans, and cherries to your daily diet, especially when paired with green tea, could be a simple way to support heart health, according to new research.

A large international study led by scientists from the University of Reading, Harvard Medical School, the University of California Davis, and Mars, Inc., found that most people are not consuming enough flavanols, natural compounds linked to a lower risk of heart disease.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260619020512.htm

[Rahab]

What about the caffeine?

[Asia Joe]

It was not part of that study. 

However, coffee is widely promoted as beneficial in many top health YouTube channels. 

If you put this into the search engine, "study on coffee" you will get article after article talking about health benefits of coffee. 

The Seventh-day Adventists are the only people I know warning about the dangers of coffee. 

When I was in business in Mich, I had a client who told me he was addicted to Coffee. He could not break it. He said it was the worst addiction in the world.