The conventional wisdom says that healthy people should drink about 8 cups of water a day. But does coffee count toward that water intake?
One expert, Eric Rimm, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explains the difference between decaf and regular and why coffee is an excellent beverage choice.
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Prof. Rimm says that, as long as a person has a diet that is high in fruits and vegetables and healthy fats, “there is no reason to think that someone who solely drank coffee would have any issues.”