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New York TimesResearchers analyzed coffee consumption data collected from the U.K. Biobank, a large medical database with health information from people across Britain. They analyzed demographic, lifestyle and dietary information collected from more than 170,000 people between the ages of 37 and 73 over a median follow-up period of seven years. The mortality risk remained lower for people who drank both decaffeinated and caffeinated coffee. The data was inconclusive for those who drank coffee with artificial sweeteners.
Its huge. There are very few things that reduce your mortality by 30 percent, said Dr. Christina Wee, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a deputy editor of the scientific journal where the study was published. Dr. Wee edited the study and published a corresponding editorial in the same journal.
There are, however, major caveats to interpreting this research, she added. This is an observational study, which means the data cannot conclusively prove that coffee itself lowers the risk of dying; there may be other lifestyle factors contributing to that lower mortality risk among people who drink coffee, like a healthy diet or a consistent exercise routine.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)stopdiggin
(11,317 posts)
Ain't nothin' gonna to break my stride
Nobody gonna slow me down, oh no
I got to keep on moving
Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride
I'm running and I won't touch ground
Oh no, I got to keep on moving
-- Matthew Wilder --
hack89
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malaise
(269,063 posts)2naSalit
(86,650 posts)essaynnc
(801 posts)Solomon
(12,311 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)I'm re-thinking that. I'm going to assume that, since they didn't mention it, that adding some sort of creamer made no difference. I hope so. I can't do black coffee.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)While it says it holds true for ground, instant and decaffeinated, the abstract doesn't mention creamer of any sort: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-2977
cloudbase
(5,520 posts)one of the four food groups.
3Hotdogs
(12,393 posts)people play with themselves.
Does the study show that the two practices balance themselves out? Or am I in trouble even though I drink a lot of coffee?
I remember the time when my father caught me doing it. He pointed his finger at the corner of the room and said I was gonna go blind if I kept on doing that.
"Dad, I'm over here."
I gotta admit, my eyes don't see too good these days.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Yet another heritable behavior pattern (not being coffee drinking, however).
bucolic_frolic
(43,192 posts)Keep the arteries moving, the heart pumping, blood going through the liver, better peeing. Flagging circulation is no good for the body. It allows fats and carcinogens and chemicals and probably many other things to alight somewhere.
Yes there are other things for circulation. Exercise. And other things that are healthy, like vitamin C, vegetables, antioxidants, chlorophyll.
NCDem47
(2,249 posts)brewens
(13,598 posts)Zambero
(8,964 posts)Traces of formaldehyde can be found in instant coffee. Even larger traces in embalming fluid.
twodogsbarking
(9,761 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)We're all gonna die. So drink up.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)PXR-5
(522 posts)Pick up some ice cube trays and fill with coffee.
Coffee ice cubes
Regular ice dilutes your drink.
doc03
(35,349 posts)would have probably been dead by now.
ProfessorGAC
(65,078 posts)I immediately considered the idea that many people replace the morning jolt with Coke or Pepsi.
I would think those far less benign because of sugar, althougb many people sweeten their coffee.
This might be very multivariate.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)that'll cure that urge.
ProfessorGAC
(65,078 posts)I have one black cow a year.
Pops are too sweet for me.
I drink pretend beer if i want something carbonated.
I actually visited a Coca-Cola plant once.
I know what's in there.
Nothing too bad except for all the sugar. They actually use a coca leaf extract, derived ACTER the alkaloid has been removed. So, that background bitter is actually based on the original formula with the cocaine still in it.
I will say those formulating areas are C-L-E-A-N!!
Sanitary conditions were not a concern at all.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Now we are all the way up to 3.5 cups a day. Hits my sweet spot.
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)they'd find a somewhat similar result.
MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)where coffee kiosks are more-plentiful than Thai or donut places in the San Fernando Valley. The access to coffee every three blocks explains Washington drivers. The availability of coffee may not extend your life, but denying your spouse his/her coffee could significantly shorten it.
And if, starting on your eighteenth birthday, you drink a pint of coffee every day for the next 29,951 days, you will live to be 100.