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posted by CoolHand on Friday July 14 2017, @09:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the java-chugging dept.

Studies Suggest Healthy Adults Drink More Coffee when they Live Longer

Drinking coffee could lead to a longer life, scientist says

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Here's another reason to start the day with a cup of joe: Scientists have found that people who drink coffee appear to live longer.

Drinking coffee was associated with a lower risk of death due to heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and respiratory and kidney disease for African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Latinos and whites.

People who consumed a cup of coffee a day were 12 percent less likely to die compared to those who didn't drink coffee. This association was even stronger for those who drank two to three cups a day -- 18 percent reduced chance of death.

Lower mortality was present regardless of whether people drank regular or decaffeinated coffee, suggesting the association is not tied to caffeine, said Veronica W. Setiawan, lead author of the study and an associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

"We cannot say drinking coffee will prolong your life, but we see an association," Setiawan said. "If you like to drink coffee, drink up! If you're not a coffee drinker, then you need to consider if you should start."

The study, which will be published in the July 11 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, used data from the Multiethnic Cohort Study, a collaborative effort between the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and the Keck School of Medicine.

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Two studies showed a link between coffee-drinking and a propensity toward longevity, but stopped short of proving cause and effect. [...] one downside to the research is the fact that many people stop drinking coffee -- or drink less of it -- when they are ill, a "bias that is very hard to fully overcome."


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Friday July 14 2017, @10:22PM (5 children)

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday July 14 2017, @10:22PM (#539372) Homepage

    If you're poor enough, you don't buy coffee. Or maybe non-coffee drinkers drink more alcohol and kill themselves slowly that way.

    "We cannot say drinking coffee will prolong your life, but we see an association," Setiawan said. "If you like to drink coffee, drink up! If you're not a coffee drinker, then you need to consider if you should start."

    You just said it won't prolong my life, then you tell me to drink up anyway. Is this guy working for Nescafe or something?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @10:56PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @10:56PM (#539384)

    Those were my first thoughts exactly - coffee is a relatively expensive habit to maintain, which means you have to have some kind of disposable income to be a coffee drinker. Poorer people are known to have lower life expectancy. I'd be interested to see the income distributions of their participants.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:24AM (1 child)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:24AM (#539423) Journal

      Expensive coffee is expensive.

      Normal coffee is pretty cheap A lot of people get it free at work, even.

  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday July 15 2017, @09:26AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Saturday July 15 2017, @09:26AM (#539495)

    It's more likely those hyper people that say they only sleep 5 hours a night and don't need any coffee end up dying younger.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:36PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:36PM (#539596) Homepage Journal

    If you're poor enough, you don't buy coffee.

    Nonsense, no other beverage except water is cheaper, unless you drink Starbucks or something. My coffee drinking grandparents were poor, and when I was poor often coffee was the only beverage I could afford. Ten bucks of Folger's or Maxwell House cost the same as a single cup of Starbucks (and tastes better) and lasts me over a month.

    Coffee's even cheaper than tea.

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