Body fat, belly fat and muscle are often top of mind when we think about diet and healthy aging. But a new study suggests your daily coffee habit may be influencing all three — along with your metabolism.

A Chinese medicinal herb has been shown to not only block bone loss, but encourage bone growth. That’s great news for anyone with osteoporosis. Even better, the active compound responsible for that phenomenal bone support is also found in coffee beans…

Coffee has been linked to liver health before. This time, however, researchers saw changes in blood proteins, alongside findings inside the liver itself, that make the connection much harder to dismiss…

From longer life, to better brain, liver and metabolic health, coffee’s reputation as a healthy beverage keeps getting stronger. Now researchers may have uncovered one of the cellular mechanisms behind its benefits, and caffeine appears to be far from the most important player.

Is coffee quietly helping your health… or hurting it? And what about tea, our other favorite caffeinated beverage? Thanks to one of the largest and longest studies on the topic, which has tracked people for more than four decades, we may have the answer.

Coffee keeps showing up in metabolic research, offering benefits that haven’t been fully understood. But new tech in the study of functional foods reveals coffee’s secret: compounds that block a key enzyme similar to how drugs work…