How does coffee affect your lifespan?
Does this seem like a strange question?
Perhaps it is, but it is also the subject of a study which has been published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.
It was carried out by the National Institutes of Health, over a period of thirteen years and involved the assessment of over 400,000 adults of both genders, between 50 and 71 years of age.
So what were the conclusions of this investigation?
Apparently, those participants who were men and who consumed more than five cups of coffee on a daily basis, were 10% less likely to die as early as those who did not drink the stuff at all.
The equivalent percentage for women was 15%.
And what about those who don’t drink this much coffee?
The survey results suggested that only drinkers of a sole cup of coffee per day reduced their risk to 6% (men) and 5% (women).
Of course, this study is not conclusive nor completely comprehensive and much more work needs to be done.
However, the issues raised are certainly thought-provoking (and are presumably welcome to those who love a cup of coffee throughout the day).
Given the love of the drink the world over, we’d be interested to learn, I suspect, what the effects on us are…