Caffeine Fix It: How a Regular Cup of Coffee Could Help You Live Longer

     

Too much caffeine used to be considered a bad thing. Now researchers say drinking coffee could extend your life.

They found following a study of 400,000 aged between 50 and 71, the more coffee you drink, the less likely you are to die from a number of different ailments.

These include heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries, accidents, diabetes and infections, but not cancer.

The US research published in The New England Journal of Medicine adds to evidence that coffee drinkers appear to enjoy better health.

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, say they cannot establish whether coffee is the cause of a lowered risk of death, but they found a link.

The research followed a large number of people, 229,000 men and 173,000 women, taking part in a diet and health study between 1995 and 2008.

Participants were classified according to the amount of coffee they drank at the start of the study, into groups drinking up to six cups a day or more, and non-coffee drinkers.

There were 52,000 deaths during the period, with an ‘inverse association’ between coffee consumption and death.

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