Coffee Consumption Linked To Longer Life Expectancy

July 13, 2017

The Independent reports drinking around three cups of coffee a day has been linked to a lower risk of death “from any cause” in two new large-scale studies. Researchers from Imperial College London and the International Agency for Research on Cancer analyzed data on the health and coffee-drinking habits of more than half a million people from 10 European countries. They found men who drank at least three cups of coffee a day were 18 percent less likely to die from any cause than non-coffee drinkers, with women experiencing an 8 percent reduction in mortality. In the U.S., American scientists conducted a separate investigation into the effect of coffee on the health of more than 185,000 participants from different ethnic backgrounds. People who drank one cup of coffee daily were 12 percent less likely to die than those who drank no coffee. Furthermore, drinking two to three cups of coffee appeared to reduce the chances of death by 18 percent.