Coffee May Help Drinkers Live Longer, U.S. Study Suggests

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-16/coffee-may-help-drinkers-live-longer-u-s-study-suggests.html
Coffee, caffeinated or decaffeinated, may help extend the lives of people who drink it daily, a U.S. study found.
Men who drank 2 to 3 cups a day had a 10 percent chance of outliving those who drank no coffee, while women had a 13 percent advantage, according to research published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute is the largest to compare coffee drinkers with those who avoid it to determine whether the beverage can delay the risk of dying from ailments such as heart disease, diabetes or respiratory illness, said Neal Freedman, the lead study author. It’s unclear why coffee may be beneficial and more research is needed to study that question, he said.

The results “offer a little bit of reassurance to coffee drinkers who like drinking coffee that it won’t affect health,” said Freedman, an investigator at the NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics in Rockville, Maryland, in a May 14 telephone interview. “It doesn’t seem to increase one’s risk of dying.”

Still, “the association between coffee and mortality has been unclear,” he said. “This is an observational study so we don’t know for certain coffee is having a cause and effect.”
Americans drank 77.4 billion cups of coffee valued at $35.8 billion in the 12 months ended June 30, 2011, according to a Sept. 7 statement by the research firm StudyLogic. About 64 percent of U.S. adults drink coffee every day and 73 percent drink it weekly, according to the New York-based National Coffee Association. Americans consume about 3.2 cups of coffee a day, the group said

[seabeyond]

1. oh, let it be. it has to off set the cigs. coffee has been an interesting one for decades

first good. then bad. then good. then bad.

now good

[CottonBear]

2. According to the researchers, either decaf or regular coffee are beneficial!

I heard an NPR report on this study yesterday as I was drinking a cup of coffee.

[seabeyond]

4. ha ha ha ha. i am seldom out of coffee. was at the grocery store the other day, they all know me,

and i am wandering around.... asked meat dude, what am i forgetting. i am forgetting something... to the cashier, and she names off a list. what is it.... i know it is a big deal.

went to make coffee that night. oh ya, coffee

i went then next morning with decaff the i had her for in laws years ago.

i was yawning all day, never quite woke up. finally at one ran to the store to get coffee and make a real cup

i think it is good for me, too.

[CottonBear]

6. I LOVE coffee too! n/t

[Voice for Peace]

3. all these studies - good today, bad tomorrow

I've stopped paying attention, it could make a person insane
trying to become immortal.

[seabeyond]

5. so true, so true. nt