Coffee Drinkers May Live Longer than Nondrinkers

skatss · #1 (**permalink**) 07-06-2008, 02:39 PM

Here's yet another study that looks good but doesn't mean much.

A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that followed nearly 128,000 US health professionals for more than two decades, says that middle aged people who drink a few cups of coffee a day have a slightly lower risk of dying from heart disease than non drinkers.

Women who drank at least two to three cups per day were one-quarter to one-third less likely to die of heart problems or stroke than women who did not drink coffee. But men had to drink at least four to five cups of coffee per day to have that sort of protection.

The study can't say it really is the coffee that protected the hearts, or what it is about the coffee that might be helpful. So, they don't know why, they can't say that it really is the coffee, but they are publishing the study anyway.

Make up your own mind. Here's the full story:

Coffee Drinkers May Live Longer than Non-drinkers

I suppose any sound bite is a good sound bite as long as it can get you into the news.

One day a real study will actually prove something solid and we all won't recognize it because we have been inundated with all these silly studies for far too long.

twocents · #2 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008, 02:53 AM

This information changes so regularly that I just stop listening to all the research and drink what I like. I don't like coffee all that much except for the sweet drinks that I can buy at Starbuck's and I definitely do not drink it every morning.

jsfarris · #3 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 02:18 AM

If these studies are true my partner should live until she is about 14,000 years old. She drinks it all day and in fact has to be reminded to drink water. I think it is like anything else you can have too much of a good thing.