Drinking coffee may be linked to lower risk of death, even with a little sugar

[Gefn]

Contrary to popular myth, forgoing coffee isn’t likely to improve your health. The opposite might be true: Years of research suggests that drinking coffee is linked with a lower risk of death.

The latest addition to that body of research was published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study looked at around 120,000 people in the U.K. who regularly drank unsweetened or sugar-sweetened coffee over seven years. The findings suggested that those who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups a day had a lower risk of death during those seven years than non-coffee drinkers, even if they added a teaspoon of real sugar — not artificial sweetener — to every cup.

On the whole, people who drank unsweetened coffee were 16 percent to 21 percent less likely to die during the study period than people who didn’t drink coffee at all, the results showed.


https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/drinking-coffee-linked-lower-risk-death-rcna31241


 

[Smokin Joe]

Neat!
I love it anyway.
(now if only I could get a doctor to prescribe it and get my prescription coverage to pay for it...)

[Gefn]

Neat!
I love it anyway.
(now if only I could get a doctor to prescribe it and get my prescription coverage to pay for it...)

Yep. Remember when a cup of coffee was about 50 cents ? And some places it was free with breakfast

[Smokin Joe]

Yep. Remember when a cup of coffee was about 50 cents ? And some places it was free with breakfast

Not to mention free refills (still are in cafes here).

[DCPatriot]

Study compliments of the International Coffee Bean Association.   

[240B]

If this is true, I will live to be 150 years old. Somehow I doubt it. Wait until next month when the same people say that coffee causes birth defects and cancer. <- no joke ... anything for a clickbait headline

[Kamaji]

Caffeinated only, or does decaf count as well?

[PeteS in CA]

Vitamin C, the energy vitamin!!! Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Gefn]

Not to mention free refills (still are in cafes here).

@Smokin Joe

Remember places like Dennys would put a carafe of coffee on the table? And refill it?

[DefiantMassRINO]

Not surprising.  People in my family who should have died long ago have sustained longevity by maintaining a diet of alcohol, cigarettes, and coffee.  Those are the three legs of the Vice Food Pyramid.

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

Remember places like Dennys would put a carafe of coffee on the table? And refill it?

Denny's and others (it saved the waitress trips, and sometimes we'd be there for hours--always leaving a really good tip)

[PeteS in CA]

@Smokin Joe

Remember places like Dennys would put a carafe of coffee on the table? And refill it?

Around here, Denny's doesn't. But IHOP still does. My daughter loves that, and teases her friend in China with pics of the carafe (free coffee refills aren't a thing there).