Drinking An Inordinate Amount Of Coffee Will Make You Live Longer. It’s SCIENCE!

I’m a coffee drinker, but not your *classic* coffee drinker. I don’t make a cup of coffee the second I get up. I actually drink my morning coffee around brunching hours. Kimber can attest to that. I make my morning coffees at home. I have a Starbucks Verismo, which I prefer far above Keurigs, because the Verismo pods always come out with a cool foamy layer, and I’m ALL about it. The coffee is smooth and foamy and creamy and I just love it. I’m also not one of those people who does the straight half and half or straight sugar. I buy flavored coffee creamers. Right now, I’m on a Cafe Mocha Coffee-Mate kick. Before, I was all about creme brulee.

I go through phases, OK?

Don’t even get me STARTED on my mug collection. I’m obsessed with mugs. That’s half the fun of making coffee at home, TBH.

Occasionally, my sister will bring me another hot coffee from my favorite local coffee shop around normal lunch hours. It’s a hipster place (they have a bunch of gluten free and vegan crap), but they have a latte called the Honey Badger and it is TO DIE FOR.

Around 2 or 3, I start feeling a little bit like low-energy Jeb!, so I typically venture out to Starbucks and grab skinny iced caramel macchiato with extra drizzle. I know it sounds like it doesn’t make sense, but the skinny syrup and skim milk balance out my extra drizzle.

I’m sorry I’m this way, but also no I’m not.

So yeah. I love coffee, and you’re now sufficiently up to date on my daily coffee habits.

That brings me to this. The greatest news of the day. Researchers say that six cups of coffee a day can decrease your risk of early death by 16%. Probably because coffee makes you happy and happy people live longer. (JK I just made all that up, but it sounded good, right?)

Researchers say that those who drink six or seven cups of coffee per day are 16 percent less likely to die from any disease over a 10-year period than those who never have a cup of Joe.

Coffee has long been linked with combating heart disease, cancer, dementia, diabetes and depression.

The researchers, who hail from various institutions including the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health, say they hope their findings provide further reassurance that coffee can be part of a healthy diet.

Covfefe forever!

For the study, the team tracked almost 500,000 Britons between ages 38 and 73 from 2006 to 2016.

The researchers asked them how many cups of coffee they drank per day, including the type: decaffeinated, ground or instant.

The researchers, who published their results in JAMA on Monday, found that those whose coffee intake was high fared the best.

Those who drank eight cups or more per day saw their death rates cut by 14 percent, and it was raised to 16 percent among those who drank six to seven cups.

So 6-7 cups is the money zone.

The protective effect was also seen among moderate and light coffee drinkers – but to a lesser degree.

Two to five cups, one cup per day, or less than one cup per day reduced early death rates by 12, eight and six percent, respectively.

According to lead author Dr Erikka Loftfield, a cancer epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, the results held true whether the type of coffee drank was ground, instant or decaffeinated.

Even though I think decaffeinated coffee is of the devil, this is good to know.

‘Coffee drinking was inversely associated with mortality, including among those drinking eight or more cups per day,’ said Dr Loftfield.

‘These findings suggest the importance of non-caffeine constituents in the coffee-mortality association and provide further reassurance that coffee drinking can be a part of a healthy diet.’

Happy coffee drinking, my friends!

h/t Daily Mail