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  • Caffeine may offset some health risks of diets high in fat, sugar

    Dec 20, 2019 10:15 am by Sharita ForrestResearch
    Co-authors of the study included, from left, nutritional sciences professor Manabu T. Nakamura; Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences; and animal sciences professor Jan E. Novakofski. Photo by Fred Zwicky

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    In a study of rats, University of Illinois scientists found that caffeine limited weight gain and cholesterol production, despite a diet that was high in fat and sugar. 

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