Wanna Live Longer? Do like Moon – Drink Coffee

According to a new study by the National Cancer Institute, coffee may actually prolong life.

I drink a full pot -- 10- cups -- every morning starting at 3:45 whenI arrive at the station and concluding at 9:00. I take a break and return at 10 a.m. when I continue sipping coffee all day.

Over the course of a 14-year study, researchers found that men who drank at least six cups of coffee a day had a 10 percent lower chance of dying than those who drank none. Women had a 15 percent lower chance.

“I would say it offers some reassurance to coffee drinkers,” said Neal Freedman, a nutritional epidemiology researcher and one of the authors of the study. “Other studies have suggested a higher risk of mortality with coffee drinking and we didn’t see that in our study.”

The study looked at the coffee habits of 229,000 men and 173,000 women from 1995 to 2008. It found that even people who drank between two and five cups of coffee daily seemed to have a lower risk of mortality. This applied to both regular and decaffeinated coffee.

It’s important to note, however, that the study highlights only a potential connection between coffee and decreased risk of death. Simply put, researchers aren’t quite sure why their findings highlight an uptick in longevity.

Still, Freedman said, it’s entirely possible that coffee may be beneficial in some unknown way. “Coffee has more than 1,000 compounds and we really don’t know what effects those compounds have on health,” he said.

I think one of the reasons coffee was thought to be unhealthy is because people smoked cigarettes with their coffee.

Enjoy!