I found this great article while browsing internet.
2 international studies suggest that having 3 cups of coffee help us to live longer.
As a coffee addict this excited me...
The first study, led by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and Imperial College London, examined more than half a million people across 10 countries in Europe.
Those who drank about three cups a day tended to live longer than non-coffee drinkers, said the study, which researchers described as the largest analysis of the effects of coffee-drinking in a European population.
"We found that higher coffee consumption was associated with a lower risk of death from any cause, and specifically for circulatory diseases, and digestive diseases," said lead author Marc Gunter of the IARC, formerly at Imperial's School of Public Health.
"Importantly, these results were similar across all of the 10 European countries, with variable coffee drinking habits and customs."
The second study included more than 180,000 participants of various ethnic backgrounds in the United States.It found benefits to longevity whether the coffee was caffeinated or decaffeinated.
Coffee drinkers had a lower risk of death due to heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and respiratory and kidney disease.
Those who drank one cup a day were 12 per cent less likely to die because of those diseases compared to those who didn't drink coffee. Those who drank two or three cups per day saw an even higher 18 per cent reduced risk of death due to the diseases."
We cannot say drinking coffee will prolong your life, but we see an association," said lead author Veronica Setiawan, an associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California.
"If you like to drink coffee, drink up! If you're not a coffee drinker, then you need to consider if you should start."
Have you drink a cup of coffee today?