By MARILYNN MARCHIONE:
MILWAUKEE (AP) - One of life's simple pleasures just got a little
sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even
some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study
finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live
longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.
The study of 400,000 people is the largest ever done on the issue, and
the results should reassure any coffee lovers who think it's a guilty
pleasure that may do harm.
"Our study suggests that's really not the case," said lead researcher
Neal Freedman of the National Cancer Institute. "There may actually be a
modest benefit of coffee drinking."
No one knows why. Coffee contains a thousand things that can affect
health, from helpful antioxidants to tiny amounts of substances linked
to cancer. The most widely studied ingredient - caffeine - didn't play a
role in the new study's results...Continue reading...
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