Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org)

Coffee is far from a vice. There's now lots of evidence pointing to its health benefits, including a possible longevity boost for those of us with a daily coffee habit. From a report: The latest findings come from a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine that included about a half-million people in England, Scotland and Wales. "We found that people who drank two to three cups per day had about a 12 percent lower risk of death compared to non-coffee drinkers" during the decade-long study, says Erikka Loftfield, a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute. Participants ranged in age from 38 to 73. The association held up among drinkers of decaffeinated coffee, too. In the U.S., there are similar findings linking higher consumption of coffee to a lower risk of early death in African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Latinos and white adults, both men and women. A daily coffee habit is also linked to a decreased risk of stroke and Type 2 diabetes.

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Coffee makes some drinkers immortal?

[mykepredko]

From TFS and TFA: "We found that people who drank two to three cups per day had about a 12 percent lower risk of death compared to non-coffee drinkers."

Wow. I gotta start drinking coffee.

Or, could it be a poorly worded sentence that the writer jumped on?

I was told...

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought everybody dies. Was I told wrong?

Addiction

[PackMan97]

Even though caffeine is a fairly weak drug, this shows the power of addiction. Caffeine addicts need that morning cup 'o joe so badly that they'll tell the Grim Reaper to bugger off and wait until they've had their coffee. Apparently it works!

Re:Addiction

[ichthus]

I have also never been diagnosed, but

Re:With the amount of coffee and dark chocolate I

[Oswald McWeany]

I should be immortal.

Well, if you haven't died yet- perhaps you are.

Re:More Coffee - Less Sugary Soda

[DontBeAMoran]

I can't speak for the others you motherfucker, but I'm only brave on the Internet. In real life, I run away from butterflies. Those random flight patterns are really frightening!

Re:12% Decrease in Death-100% Increase in YellowTe

[DontBeAMoran]

According to my study, 100% of the people who masturbate died within 150 years.

Decaf?! Abomination!!!

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Decaf also might make you live longer, but it is not worth living longer if you drink decaf. Of all the pointless things in the world, decaf takes the cake. Sponge cake. Layered with mascara pone cheese, tiramisu, but I digress.

You must buy a plot in the Great Smokey mountains, and tend to your own coffee shrubs, that you grow in shade, you pick the berries, feed them to the civet cat you own, and take the excreted beans, roast them yourself, grind them just 3 minutes before you brew and brew it fresh using natural spring water that you fetch it yourself. That is coffee. If not, might as well drink starbucks.