Scientists say drinking coffee can leave you living longer (source Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby, TheAge).
Scientists have this week announced that drinking coffee are more likely to live longer compared to those who dont drink coffee.
The study involved 400,000 people, which is the largest study ever conducted on this issue.
‘‘Our study suggests that’s really not the case,’’ said lead researcher Neal Freedman of the National Cancer Institute.
‘There may actually be a modest benefit of coffee drinking.’’ No one knows why. Coffee contains a thousand things that can affect health, from helpful antioxidants to tiny amounts of substances linked to cancer.
caffeine, which is a widely studied subject, wasnt a focus in this study's results.
It was initially thought that coffee drinkers were more likely to die at any given time, but coffee drinkers in general tended to smoke, drink alcohol more often, consume more red meat and be less active when it comes to exercise, when compared to that of non-coffee-drinkers.
Once researchers took those things into account, a clear pattern emerged: each cup of coffee per day nudged up the chances of living longer.
The study was done by the National Institutes of Health and AARP, an organisation that advocates for people 50 years and older.The results are published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.
The study doesn’t prove coffee makes people live longer, only that the two seem related.Beginning in 1995, it involved AARP members aged 50 to 71.
People who already had heart disease, a stroke or cancer weren’t included. Neither were those at diet extremes - too many or too few calories per day.
Of the 402,260 participants, about 42,000 drank no coffee. About 15,000 drank six cups or more a day. Most people had two or three.
By 2008, about 52,000 of them had died. Compared with those who drank no coffee, men who had two or three cups a day were 10 per cent less likely to die at any age. For women, it was 13 per cent.
Even a single cup a day seemed to lower risk a little: 6 per cent in men and 5 per cent in women. The strongest effect was in women who had four or five cups a day - a 16 per cent lower risk of death.
SOURCE: http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/drink-coffee-live-longer-study-20120517-1ys0s.html#ixzz1vCVW71Ak
The study involved 400,000 people, which is the largest study ever conducted on this issue.
‘‘Our study suggests that’s really not the case,’’ said lead researcher Neal Freedman of the National Cancer Institute.
‘There may actually be a modest benefit of coffee drinking.’’ No one knows why. Coffee contains a thousand things that can affect health, from helpful antioxidants to tiny amounts of substances linked to cancer.
caffeine, which is a widely studied subject, wasnt a focus in this study's results.
It was initially thought that coffee drinkers were more likely to die at any given time, but coffee drinkers in general tended to smoke, drink alcohol more often, consume more red meat and be less active when it comes to exercise, when compared to that of non-coffee-drinkers.
Once researchers took those things into account, a clear pattern emerged: each cup of coffee per day nudged up the chances of living longer.
The study was done by the National Institutes of Health and AARP, an organisation that advocates for people 50 years and older.The results are published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.
The study doesn’t prove coffee makes people live longer, only that the two seem related.Beginning in 1995, it involved AARP members aged 50 to 71.
People who already had heart disease, a stroke or cancer weren’t included. Neither were those at diet extremes - too many or too few calories per day.
Of the 402,260 participants, about 42,000 drank no coffee. About 15,000 drank six cups or more a day. Most people had two or three.
By 2008, about 52,000 of them had died. Compared with those who drank no coffee, men who had two or three cups a day were 10 per cent less likely to die at any age. For women, it was 13 per cent.
Even a single cup a day seemed to lower risk a little: 6 per cent in men and 5 per cent in women. The strongest effect was in women who had four or five cups a day - a 16 per cent lower risk of death.
SOURCE: http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/drink-coffee-live-longer-study-20120517-1ys0s.html#ixzz1vCVW71Ak
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