Posted on 07/23/2018 9:34:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There are factors that are never taken into account. Coffee is often drunk with OTHER PEOPLE. The socialization aspect is important. You have coffee with friends and/or family.
Or you drink coffee because you’re off to work. Keeping busy is highly correlated with keeping healthy.
Also, it’s possible that healthy people feel like drinking coffee, while sick people don’t.
As for correlation VS causation, there is a very high correlation with dying and being in a hospital before the death.
Coffee is often drunk with cream and/or sugar. This study could have just as easily been titled “does drinking milk help you live longer?” or “does ingesting sugar help you live longer?”
I pay no attention to these studies, whether they are reported in a paper or on the TV “news” by pretty, ignorant airheads.
It hasn’t been as bad as I thought it was. The only bummer about it actually is when I go out to dinner with my still-drinking buddies and I get screwed when we invariably split the bill - I’m drinking club soda and they’re polishing off cocktails after cocktails. But it’s a small price to pay for not having hangovers and not doing stupid bleep like driving drunk.
I hear you. There but by the grace of god go I.
Coffee can make you live longer, but it will seem to go faster..
That said, if this research is indeed true, given the amount of coffee I drink, I should live to 150.
I don’t drink coffee, never have, and feel fine. I suspect those drinking it at Starbucks will die sooner for (1) being stressed either by the hyper snowflake views of Starbucks (either agreeing or being troubled by them) or (2) going bankrupt at over paying for coffee.
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A cup of regular, black coffee, with no special add-ons, is priced in line with most other places where you can buy a cup of coffee, with the exception of fast food joints.
I used to be a heavy coffee drinker.
Then while on a long run(10 mi +)I had breathing difficulty.
Then more of the same and the next day too...
My Doc is an internist/cardiologist, puts me on a treadmill. I planed to smoke the treadmill! I never knew they went on that much of an incline!
After about 30 minutes, all the many screens are blinking ARRHYTHMIA...ARRHYTHMIA...ARRHYTHMIA...
The nurse looks worried, I feel fine. My doc asked if I can continue until the breathing issue occurs.
A few minutes and it happens.
The doc hits the shut down button and before the platform drops to level, he asks “how much coffee do you drink”
He said it was the classic symptoms of excess caffeine and only affects about 15% of over users.
Now only two cups each AM; A-OK.
Oh how I love studies!
Don’t worry about this one. Or the next one.
No matter the conclusion, in a couple of months from now the next study will come out and say the complete opposite.
Great story, thanks for sharing. It must be relieving to know your caffeine limit.
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