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Abstract: Backgrounds: Coffee consumption has recently received special attention, as many health benefits have been found to be associated with its drinking. A lot of challenges have received on the coffee consumption and body weight status. The aim of the present work was to find out the relationship between coffee consumption and body weight, height and BMI. Methods: A total of 310 subjects with 144 male and 166 female included in the study and body weight was undertaken before (usual weight) after using dietary program (current weight) and BMI was calculated. The subject filling out the self-constructed questionnaire. All data analyzed by using SPSS T test and Chi-square test was performed. Result and discussions: The effect of coffee on body weight were investigated by numbers of questions. Coffee consumption did not have effect on the appetite rather assistant in body weight reduction in man (P< 0.05) and reduced body height in both man and women but have no effect on BMI. Furthermore, coffee shown decelerating or slowest weight loss in women. Women were more found significantly consumed coffee/ day than man by which 2-3 cups/day. The age groups were most common affected by reducing body weight through consumption of coffee was those between 20-30 years old. Conclusion: Coffee consumption was assistant in body weight loss in man, but not in women, decelerated height growth and have no effect on the BMI and appetite. Furthermore women shown more coffee consumed than man and such work need to be more investigated beyond the mechanism in larger sample sizes.