Could Coffee Lengthen Your Life? Maybe
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You may want to bring an extra cup of coffee to work.
Sleepy people the world over will be happy, because researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have been examining the potential harms and benefits of your morning caffeine fix, and it looks like coffee drinkers have a reason to celebrate.
In a study of hundreds of thousands of subjects published in the medical journal Circulation, researchers found that higher consumption of total coffee, caffeinated coffee, and decaffeinated coffee was associated with lower risk of dying earlier from any cause.
Non-smokers who drank 1.1 to 3 cups of coffee per day had a 15 percent lower risk of dying earlier when compared to their non-coffee drinking counterparts, with decreased risk in those drinking slightly more or slightly less coffee per day than that.
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Further analysis found that among those who had never smoked, the more coffee they drank the lower their risk of dying specifically from cardiovascular disease, neurological disease and suicide.
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