I love coffee and will NEVER give it up,in spite of doctor suggestions.
And I’m as old as dirt.:-)
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In odd numbered years, coffee is bad for you.
In even numbered years, coffee is good for you.
If science can’t get something like this straight, what the heck is science doing mouthing off about the global climate? Scientists today are mostly hacks seeking grants. I have little respect for modern science.
“Does drinking coffee help you live longer?”
It may or may not, but the fact that I drink coffee, most definitely helps the people I work with live longer...
For the highly-committed coffee addict, coffee lets other people live longer. Take it away at your own risk!
If coffee consumption is a factor in longevity, I ought to break Methusalah’s record.
The result of almost all studies: More study needed.
So far it has.
The reason we live longer is because the caffeine keeps us going, and going, and going. We drink it because the will to live keeps us active. The joy of life including our love of coffee and BEING alive, working, playing, creating, debating, and making this world a better place (or should I say, holding the line against evil until He returns to obliterate it) and whatever keeps us off the hopelessness end of the bell curve, is what makes us live longer.
I plan on doing all I can until He calls me home. Have a blessed week and stay busy!
Reasons why causation may be reversed: Those who drink little or no coffee do so because they are unhealthy to begin with.
1. People with known health problems are likely to be instructed by their doctors not to drink coffee.
2. Symptoms of some health problems can be exacerbated by coffee consumption, so people with those health issues abstain.
JAMA. Please. More lawyers read it than doctors.
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.
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.