{"id":337600,"date":"2017-07-19T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=337600"},"modified":"2017-07-19T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T07:40:09","slug":"coffee-drinkers-live-longer-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/coffee-drinkers-live-longer-perhaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee drinkers live longer – perhaps"},"content":{"rendered":"
Drinking three cups of coffee a day may help you live longer, according to a study of almost half a million people from 10 European countries.<\/p>\n
The research, published in the journal the Annals of Internal Medicine, suggests an extra cup of coffee could lengthen a person’s lifespan – even if it is decaffeinated.<\/p>\n
But sceptical experts point out it is impossible to say for sure that it is the coffee that is having a protective effect, rather than say, a more healthy lifestyle in coffee drinkers.<\/p>\n
They say there is no need to reach for that extra cup of coffee just yet.<\/p>\n
What does the new study claim?<\/strong><\/p>\n Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer and Imperial College London say they have found that drinking more coffee is linked to a lower risk of death – particularly for heart diseases and diseases of the gut.<\/p>\n They came to their conclusions after analysing data of healthy people over the age of 35 from 10 EU countries.<\/p>\n They asked them once at the beginning of the study how much coffee they tended to drink and then looked at deaths over an average of 16 years.<\/p>\n