Its official folks. Drinking Coffee can extend your life. What an amazing turnaround. I was always taught that coffee was bad for you and although I like it, used to avoid it like the proverbial plague. Now it turns out that it is one of the most healthiest drinks you can have!. Read on for more startling facts.
Several massive studies have now shown that the people who drink the most coffee live longer and have a reduced risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s and diabetes.
Several Massive Studies Show That People Who Drink Coffee Live Longer Than Those Who Don’t
A ground breaking study, the largest of its kind, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2012:
Freedman ND, et al. Association of coffee drinking with total and cause-specific mortality. New England Journal of Medicine, 2012.
In this study, 402,260 individuals between 50 and 71 years of age were asked about their coffee consumption.
The results were fairly remarkable… after following the people for 12-13 years, those who drank the most coffee were significantly less likely to have died.
As you can see from the graph, the more coffee people drank, the lower their risk of death was.
The sweet spot seems to be at 4-5 cups per day, where men had a 12% reduced risk and women a 16% reduced risk. Drinking 6 or more cups per day provided no additional benefit.
However, even moderate consumption of coffee (1 cup per day) was associated with a 5-6% reduction in risk of death, showing that even a little bit is enough to have an effect.
Although these numbers may seem small… given how incredibly widespread coffee consumption really is, this could have implications for millions of people.
When they looked at particular causes of death, they found that the coffee drinkers were less likely to die from infections, injuries and accidents, respiratory disease, diabetes, stroke and heart disease.
The benefit does not appear to be attributable to the caffeine, because both decaf and regular coffee had the same effect.
Of course, this is a so-called observational study, which can not prove that coffeecaused the reduction in risk. But it is a good reassurance that coffee is, at the very least, NOT the villain it has been made out to be.
