Posted on 05/17/2012 5:49:05 PM PDT by Innovative
Drinking a daily cup of coffee -- or even several cups -- isn't likely to harm your health, and it may even lower your risk of dying from chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests.
NIH followed 400,000 men and women for 13 years, during which 13% died.
In the study, both regular and decaf were associated with a lower risk of dying
Overall, coffee drinkers were less likely than their peers to die during the study, and the more coffee they drank, the lower their mortality risk tended to be. Compared with people who drank no coffee at all, men and women who drank six or more cups per day were 10% and 15% less likely, respectively, to die during the study.
Coffee contains some 1,000 compounds, many of which are health-promoting antioxidants, Freedman says.
"There's some data showing that some of these components may prevent insulin resistance and have a role in diabetes," he says.
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I don’t know if there is a Trader Joe’s in your area, but they have chocolate covered coffee beans.
I’m sooooo there...
This week.
Most recently I found the chocolate covered coffee beans in a small local shop that features Holmes County (Amish Country) Ohio products.
Well, if coffee, wine, exercise are all linked to a long life, I’ll live to be 110.
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