Is French Press Coffe Bad for Your Health?

A Rat Study
My neighbor mentioned that he heard about a negative effect of French Press made coffee rather than paper filtered coffee. I searched Google and found that coffee has a compound called Cafestol that increases blood cholesterol. Paper filters lowers the amount of this compound in your cup of coffee (I've linked to a guy's blog that summarizes finding from legitimate science journals - take it from me a chemist). But realize that these studies were done on rats that were fed cafestol. While not discounting the study, the conclusions were not based on the regular drinking of coffee drinking by humans.

French Press or Not French Press?
Be aware of the facts. Don't go overboard. If you have to drink 6-8 cups of coffee everyday, then maybe drink paper filtered coffee. If you just have a mug of coffee every morning, then it's probably fine to drink French Press made coffee. Eat a bowl of oatmeal or Cheerios with your coffee to help with your cholesterol level.

How Bad is Coffe for Us?
Another study following 130,000 healthy volunteers (in their 40's and 50's at the start of the study) for 18-24 years. They drank 6 cups of coffee a day. No relationship between their coffee drinking and increased risk of death from cancer, cardiovascular, or any other cause was found.

Use Some Common Sense
So what should we conclude? Use some common sense. Drink coffee with a clear conscience, unless you find ill-effects in your health.