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Does drinking coffee with a meal further enhance the thermic or thermogenic effect (metabolic rate enhancing) of the meal?

April 26, 2017coffee drinking enhance ENHANCING meal metabolic rate thermic thermogenic

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Does drinking coffee with a meal further enhance the thermic or thermogenic effect (metabolic rate enhancing) of the meal?

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Yes! There are studies to show that the thermic effect of the meal was significantly greater after coffee than after decaffeinated coffee and again fat oxidation was significantly greater after coffee. In conclusion caffeine/coffee stimulates the metabolic rate in both control and obese individuals; however, this is accompanied by greater oxidation of fat in normal weight subjects.6 Also, another study showed that the thermic effect of caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee ingested with a standard breakfast was studied in 8 healthy subjects with indirect calorimetry.