Coffee lovers can relax and pour another cup. A new study from the US National Cancer Institute suggests that men who drink six or more cups of coffee a day are 10% less likely to die than men who do not drink coffee, and women coffee lovers 15% less likely.
The results of the 14-year study were published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers say the findings should reassure coffee lovers and free them of guilt.
According to official figures in the United States, 64% of people drink coffee every day, an average of 3.2 cups each, which means 479 million cups a day in the US alone.
The study followed more than 402,000 people from 1995 to 2008, of whom 52,000 died. It included 229,000 men and 173,000 women aged 50 to 71 who agreed to share their information. The researchers had no clear expectations, because earlier studies had been so contradictory.
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