Posted on 05/17/2012 12:25:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A study that tracked health and coffee consumption finds that coffee-drinkers had a lower risk of death. Subjects who averaged four or five cups per day fared best, though it's not clear why.
Researchers have some reassuring news for the legions of coffee drinkers who can't get through the day without a latte, cappuccino, iced mocha, double-shot of espresso or a plain old cuppa joe: That coffee habit may help you live longer.
A new study that tracked the health and coffee consumption of more than 400,000 older adults for nearly 14 years found that java drinkers were less likely to die during the study than their counterparts who eschewed the brew. In fact, men and women who averaged four or five cups of coffee per day had the lowest risk of death, according to a report in Thursday's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The research doesn't prove that coffee deserves the credit for helping people live longer. But it is the largest analysis to date to suggest that the beverage's reputation for being a liquid vice may be undeserved.
"There's been concerns for a long time that coffee might be a risky behavior," said study leader Neal Freedman, an epidemiologist with the National Cancer Institute who drinks coffee "here and there." "The results offer some reassurance that it's not a risk factor for future disease."
Coffee originated in Ethiopia more than 500 years ago. As it spread through the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, its popularity was tempered by concerns about its supposed ill effects. A 1674 petition by aggrieved women in London complained that coffee left men impotent, "with nothing moist but their snotty noses, nothing stiff but their joints, nor standing but their ears,"
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By gum I’ll have another cup.
Last I checked, the chance of Death was 100%.
In my next life I’m coming back as a researcher.
Here’s the money quote: (whoo-hoo!
1000 more Studies in a cup o’joe!!)
:To prove that coffee deserves the credit, researchers could study each of the 1,000-odd compounds in the brew and test them on subjects over time to see if they reduced inflammation, improved the body’s sensitivity to insulin or caused any other useful biological effects, he said.
I still think the risk of death is 100%, no matter how much coffee one drinks......
With as much coffee as I drink, I should live forever!
Yep, my mother drank bucket loads of coffee ever day of her life and died at 54.
Well, kitty, 54 was longer than 53, 52, 51... etc.
Exactly what I was thinking. Of course my 87 year old father consumes mass quantities, so there may be something to this. :)
It seems that no matter what happens, Starbucks wins.
These studies are retropective and may or may not correct for other risk factors.
For example, it was published years ago that breast cancer was tied to affluency. It turns out that primarily affluent women were being screened. Low income women has as much breast cancer, but no one knew.
Maybe coffee drinkers are simply more active leading to a more healthier life than a couch potato....
That’s a pretty large study sample over a very long period of time.
Drink coffee, live longer! :-)
I guess I’ll be Freeping till I’m 900 or so!
Whoo hoooo!!!
Can’t wait to live until 95 plus. No hair, no teeth, no brain, no libido, no money but doggone it make it another pot of coffee to go why dontchya.
Might even make it to the 22nd Century carried on the wings of the bean juice..
just plain coffee will not let you live longer. Geeeeez....coffee sales must be down...
MAYBE the type of people who drink coffee tend to lead very active lives? Active is good.
Certain areas of the country drink more coffee than others. NYers drink a LOT of coffee, but then they also walk/run everywhere.
>>Can’t wait to live until 95 plus. No hair, no teeth, no brain, no libido, no money but doggone it make it another pot of coffee to go why dontchya.
Might even make it to the 22nd Century carried on the wings of the bean juice..<<
That’s my fear.
My FIL, who is 96, just broke a hip. He has COPD and can’t move much at all. My MIL (the health freak) lost her mind to Alzheimer’s a couple years ago. Her mother lived to 97. I expect her to live to 100. She is 91 in constant care.
Thanks, I’ll die young and pretty like my parents. But I can’t give up coffee no matter what.
‘Guess I’ll live to be a hundred.
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