Caffeine lovers rejoice, your morning coffee with milk could add a few more years to your life.
A new study of half a million Britons found that those who drank a cup of coffee a day or more had a lower risk of premature
Caffeine lovers rejoice, your morning coffee with milk could add a few more years to your life.
A new study of half a million Britons found that those who drank a cup of coffee a day or more had a lower risk of premature death.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that people who drank one cup a day had a 6% lower risk of premature death, while those who drank six cups had 16% less.
The study authors say that this makes coffee part of a healthy diet.
UK Biobank is a UK- based study that researches the health and well-being of 500,000 volunteer participants, and provides data to approved researchers from academia and industry in the UK and abroad.
Researchers from several institutions, including the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health, studied the amount of coffee people drank, the frequency and type (including decaffeination), alcohol consumption, education and activity. physical, and if they smoked.
After taking into account the factors that would be harmful to health, such as smoking and alcohol, they discovered that people who did not drink coffee died at an earlier age than those who did drink. They were also less likely to die of cancer and heart disease, among others.
Also, it did not matter what type of coffee they would drink: instant or ground, natural or decaffeinated.
Other studies agree
Another study carried out last year reached similar conclusions.
When the International Agency for Research on Cancer and Imperial College London studied almost half a million people in 10 European countries, they found that higher levels of coffee consumption were associated with a lower risk of death from any cause, particularly circulatory and gastrointestinal diseases.
It has also been shown that coffee plays an important role in protecting against liver cancer, but only the variety with caffeine, according to a study conducted at the University of Southampton.
Drinking one more cup of coffee with caffeine per day was associated with a 20% reduction in the risk of cancer; two more cups, with a reduction of 35% and up to five cups, with a risk reduction in half.
Magic in a cup?
What makes coffee achieve this effect?
The researchers point out that coffee has a lot of beneficial ingredients. The roasted grain is a complex mixture of more than 1000 bioactive compo