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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.
That's how it works.
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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?
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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!
When you put in Cream and Sugar in it. I expect you counteract many of its positive effects. Like with a lot of healthy foods, you should be ingesting it without other ingredients.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The result showing decaf might have a similar effect is possibly the most interesting point in the study. It suggests that the effect is from something other than caffeine, which would mean there's more interesting chemicals in coffee.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
I know when I was severely depressed I didn't have the energy to drive to the place I bought my beans, roast them myself, grind them, and use my french press. I just gave-up on making coffee for several months. The study probably has more to do with the motivation of the subjects rather than coffee.
"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"
Nope. I think you'll find if you run the study long enough that everyone has a 100% risk of death no matter what they drink.
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I should be immortal.
Well, if you haven't died yet- perhaps you are.
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selection bias. people who worry about drinking coffee live shorter lives.
I was thinking there could be some of that going on. I wonder though if its more likely to be related to other hobbies, such as cycling, or running where people drink coffee along with a physical task that involves a coffee break. So could be the exercise rather than the coffee. Would be like saying "wearing sports clothes extends your life" just because those who do athletics wear sports clothes.
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What did the control group drink?
My guess is soda of some kind, even if this is not measured.
Compare coffee drinkers with water drinkers (or at least drinks without sweeteners). Otherwise the test is not testing what you think it is testing.
Drop the fruit juice, it's mostly sugar.
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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.
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I'm naturally an insomniac, although becoming less of one as I age. My kids now have the same problem, other people in my family have had the same problem. Insomnia runs in the family. When I was a teenager going through my early 30's I would live on a three day cycle. Night 1: no sleep and not feel tired the next day; night 2: 1 or 2 hours sleep max, but I do feel tired in the morning; night 3: sleep like a log- body reset.
It was an endless cycle of those three days. In my 30's I started drinking more coffee- and found I started sleeping more often- my 3 day cycle became a 2 day cycle... and then sleeping most nights; these days there is probably only on average one night a week I don't sleep at all. Usually when I don't sleep it's on a night I don't have coffee before I go to bed.
Mentioned it on the phone to my mother one evening and she said that she had the same reaction to coffee. She doesn't sleep unless she has her coffee. I think there is some genetic link there somehow. Caffeine effects some of us differently with the opposite reaction.
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The starbucks 1200 cal. coffee with all that artificial sweeteners and the sugar kills you.
A correlation is far from proving causation. It could just be that coffee drinkers belong preferentially to a more wealthy group, which enjoys better chances of living longer.
you obviously did not read the study...the study did not look at other lifestyle indicators - it was meant to see across 500k individuals was caffeine life extending...they found out that coffee of any sort was life extending. other lifestyle changes also extend life and that has already been proven.
I read what I could, and from what I read they made no attempts to normalize against those other known lifestyle indicators. They may have, as it would be very important to drawing a conclusion about causation, but I didn't see it stated. If you have a proven lifestyle indicator that correlates with coffee drinking, than it might not be the coffee that extends life.
If they grouped people according to lifestyle, and saw the caffeine correlation within those groups instead of across them, then you have a more solid basis.
I am sure the adhesive on those stickers cause cancer maybe the sticker needs a sticker?
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Yes. This is utterly obvious.
"My doctor says not to drink coffee, now that I have (cancer|high blood pressure|been infected by a xenomorph)."
So many crap studies show the same thing. Same with wine, same with beer, etc. Often the studies aren't crap, but the reporting on them is.
See the chocolate study hoax as an example: https://www.npr.org/sections/t...
they weren't looking to see if coffee led to extended life - how many ways do I have to say that? it was study on caffeine metabolism that happened to show coffee extended life. are you unable to process that?
Yes, I can process that. But what they were looking for doesn't matter. What they conclude matters. They can't draw the conclusion of causation simply due to correlation.
If I do a study to determine if people who own golf clubs are wealthier than those who don't, and along the way I happen to discover people who own golf clubs are better golfers than those who don't, I can't conclude that owning golf clubs makes you a better golfer, even though it correlates. I'd have to study other factors such as practice, which also correlate, and eliminate those before I could determine if simply owning the clubs made them better golfers.
here's the complete results: Coffee drinkers were more likely male, white, drinkers of alcohol and former smokers. Those drinking four cups or more a day, continued to smoke and were more likely to drink instant coffee. (Starbucks take note!) Those drinking less were more likely to be “in excellent health,” older and with a university degree. Concerning all-cause mortality, coffee drinking, in a dose-dependent way was protective, compared to non-coffee drinkers, reducing deaths by 14% in those drinking 8 cups a day. When limited to cancer and cardiovascular deaths, coffee drinking was protective although to a lesser degree. Ground coffee drinkers showed the most significant effect, followed by instant and decaffeinated. Individuals with the genetic “profile” representing faster caffeine metabolism drank more coffee Irrespective of the genetic “profile” coffee conferred a survival advantage. How quickly you metabolized, caffeine made no difference. The exact effect of caffeine by itself seems problematic since the same trends in reducing mortality, albeit to a lesser degree, was true for those who drank decaffeinated coffee. The study joins the growing unclear literature on the impact of coffee on our health. But it shows that our search for answers is shifting focus, from merely the amount of coffee ingested to the genetics underlying our true biologic exposure – after all, those with slower caffeine metabolisms have it hanging around for more extended periods of time. It also serves as an introduction to the term Mendelian randomization, that according to Google’s Ngram [2] appeared in about 1975, but whose use increased 63-fold by 2008. added: Mendelian randomization: "...a method for obtaining unbiased estimates of the effects of a putative causal variable without conducting a traditional randomised trial..." Conclusions and Relevance: Coffee drinking was inversely associated with mortality, including among those drinking 8 or more cups per day and those with genetic polymorphisms indicating slower or faster caffeine metabolism. These findings suggest the importance of noncaffeine constituents in the coffee-mortality association and provide further reassurance that coffee drinking can be a part of a healthy diet.
nothing to see here - move along
the headline and article concluded that - not the study...big difference. but the gist is correct, drink coffee live longer. exercise live longer. drink more water live longer.
I agree they showed drinking coffee correlates with living longer. They haven't shown it is a cause. That case could be strengthened by a study which determines if there are other known lifestyle differences that also correlate with coffee drinking and then normalize with that data.
The exact effect of caffeine by itself seems problematic since the same trends in reducing mortality, albeit to a lesser degree, was true for those who drank decaffeinated coffee.
Not really.
Decaffeinated coffee is NOT caffeine-free coffee. Often it's not even really decaffeinated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A controlled study of ten samples of prepared decaffeinated coffee from coffee shops showed that some caffeine remained.[1]
Fourteen to twenty cups of such decaffeinated coffee would contain as much caffeine as one cup of regular coffee.[1]
The 16-ounce (473-ml) cups of coffee samples contained caffeine in the range of 8.6 mg to 13.9 mg.
In another study of popular brands of decaf coffees, the caffeine content varied from 3 mg to 32 mg.[18]
An 8-ounce (237-ml) cup of regular coffee contains 95-200 mg of caffeine,[19] and a 12-ounce (355-milliliter) serving of Coca-Cola contains 36 mg.[20]
Both of these studies tested the caffeine content of store-brewed coffee, suggesting that the caffeine may be residual from the normal coffee served rather than poorly decaffeinated coffee.
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