Drinking coffee can make you live longer

Drinking an extra cup or two of coffee can make you live longer, says a new study.

In fact drinking between three and five cups of coffee a day can be part of a healthy diet resulting in serious coffee drinkers being at risk of a meeting with the ancestors, according to landmark studies published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Marc Gunter of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and formerly of Imperial College London:

We found that drinking more coffee was associated with a more favorable liver function profile and immune response

Gunter is lead author of one of the studies, which involved data from over half a million people across ten European countries and 16 years of follow-up research. The study was the largest of its kind yet.

The second new study from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California found that the health benefits of coffee was found in both white and non-white populations, which can have different lifestyles and health risks. Interestingly, it also found both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee seem to provide the same health benefits.

For the avoidance of then thinking that coffee is the elixir of life, it must be said the studies looked at how coffee drinkers seem to avoid certain diseases. So it is not to say coffee has something in it that makes you live till like erm… you-know-who’s age.

So yeah, have the coffee, but don’t get carried away.