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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."
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Sulla on Friday July 14 2017, @09:41PM (9 children)
I wonder if this has more to do with having a habit that calms the mind. I have seen studies say similar things about tea, knitting, and pipe smoking.
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(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday July 14 2017, @09:47PM (1 child)
If you wait around long enough, there will be a study extolling the virtues of that which you enjoy. When that study is released, that is your moment! Strike while the iron is hot. Gather your clan, alert the media, cash in your chips! But you have to be ready, as this opportunity only comes around once in a lifetime.
Well, maybe once every couple of years. It's best to have several irons in the fire--coffee, wine, beer, red meat, saunas, jelly babies...whatever. But, still, be ready...
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday July 14 2017, @10:10PM
We regularly get good ones about dark chocolate and sex, but I need someone paid by the right lobby to "find out" that Red Meat is in fact good for me.
Pretty please?
In the meantime, there's no bloody way I'd want to live longer if it requires drinking coffee every day...
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday July 14 2017, @11:14PM (4 children)
Calms the mind? Maybe like cocaine does, you're the mightiest man in the world and become Mr. Hyde after some insignificant niggle causes your mood to swing harder than Jeri Ryan and her husband. [thesmokinggun.com]
Then instead of being annoyingly hyper (but productive) with shaky hands and your mind all over the place, you become sullen in your buzz and then snappy towards others who make simple requests. Then you crash and get headaches and must choose between getting high again or getting decent sleep that night.
None of that applies to tea, knitting, and pipe-smoking (unless, of course, you are talking about crackpipe smoking).
Don't get me wrong, I love straight coffee. But to say that it is "calming" is somewhat misleading, especially given the way serious nerds abuse their coffee.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @11:57PM (1 child)
What is *wrong* with you?
(Score: 1) by Farmer Tim on Saturday July 15 2017, @12:01AM
Came for the news, stayed for the soap opera.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @12:57AM
LOL @ "niggle"
(Score: 2) by caffeine on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:38AM
You just need to drink more coffee, transcend caffeine. That may be the true path to enlightenment, or at least a good excuse to drink more coffee.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:32PM (1 child)
If that were the case, cigarettes would make you live longer instead of killing you.
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(Score: 2) by Sulla on Saturday July 15 2017, @08:42PM
I imagine at a certain point the asbestos, fiberglass, constantly burning the lungs, etc outway any benefits that cigs might provide.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam