Is Coffee the key to the Fountain of Youth?
We have tried to pin many things on coffee and none of them stick. Drinking large amounts of coffee (up to six cups per day) does not increase a person's risk for dying sooner than expected and may actually be protective, according to a new study released in the June Annals of Internal Medicine.
1) 84,214 women who had participated in the Nurses' Health Study and 41,736 men who had participated in the Health Professionals Study were followed.
2) Study participants completed questionnaires every two to four years that included questions about how frequently they drank coffee, other diet habits, smoking, and health conditions.
3) Listen to this! Women consuming two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25% lower risk of death from heart disease during the follow-up period as compared with non-coffee drinkers and an 18% lower risk of death caused by something other than cancer or heart disease.
4) For men, this level of consumption was associated with neither a higher nor a lower risk of death during the follow-up period.
5) After accounting for other risk factors, such as body size, smoking, diet, and specific diseases, the researchers found that people who drank more coffee were less likely to die during the follow-up period.
6) Is it caffeine or the coffee? These relationships did not seem to be related to caffeine because people who drank decaffeinated coffee also had lower death rates than people who did not drink coffee.
It is one study, so dont rush out to brew your 4 cups but given the large numbers of men and women studied these results are very provocative.
Dr O.
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I drink a lot of coffee. Sometimes 6 to 10 cups a day.
I used to get the shakes after about the 5th cup and someone told me it was more than likely the sugar, not the coffee.
I started using sweet & low in my coffee, and I also add about a quarter cup of 2% milk to each cup, and I have never been shakey since.
I'm 57 and I have a few aches and pains, but I can drink 4 cups of coffee and then take a nap, no problem.
I think it has something to do with your genetics and maybe a predisposition for sensitivity to certain things.
I also smoke and have for 35 years.
When I went for my last check up a few months ago, the doctor said "Well, I see that you don't smoke." I started laughing. I told him I smoke a pack and a half a day. Just happens that I'm not predisposed to problems from smoking YET.
My father smoked for 65 years and had lungs that were as clear as a bell.
He finally quit when he was in his early 80's because he got tired of walking outside to smoke.
By stayingalive September 12, 2008 11:05pm
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I drink a lot of coffee. Sometimes 6 to 10 cups a day.
I used to get the shakes after about the 5th cup and someone told me it was more than likely the sugar, not the coffee.
I started using sweet & low in my coffee, and I also add about a quarter cup of 2% milk to each cup, and I have never been shakey since.
I'm 57 and I have a few aches and pains, but I can drink 4 cups of coffee and then take a nap, no problem.
I think it has something to do with your genetics and maybe a predisposition for sensitivity to certain things.
I also smoke and have for 35 years.
When I went for my last check up a few months ago, the doctor said "Well, I see that you don't smoke." I started laughing. I told him I smoke a pack and a half a day. Just happens that I'm not predisposed to problems from smoking YET.
My father smoked for 65 years and had lungs that were as clear as a bell.
He finally quit when he was in his early 80's because he got tired of walking outside to smoke.
By stayingalive September 12, 2008 10:46pm
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I hope it's not coffee that is the key to the Fountain of Youth but Pepsi. I love Pepsi. I drink at least 2 cans and at most 6 cans a day.
By molly10 August 23, 2008 11:03pm
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Coffee can also make you hyper. Act as a diuretic. In some people cause headaches and they say too it helps keep you awake.
Of course if one is abusing diet, alcohol, drugs etc this too will cause serious health problems even though some medical research indicates that alcohol can be good for the heart.
By Breathes August 18, 2008 2:01pm
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Out of all the categories NOT ONE OF them are about Multiple Sclerosis, Why is this??? WE the people here at DS need to and want to know more about MS... What we as MS'ers can do...
Any Help here for MS????
By hopefulforlife July 25, 2008 4:23pm
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if thats true i have atleast 4 friends who should have reversed back to childhood they have coffee from the time they wake to when they finaly go to sleep thats of course after the jitters one is so bad he wears a medical braclet it says folgers for iv use
By dennist July 20, 2008 4:34pm
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I think it's just a case of all things in moderation - I have the occasional coffee but also drink plenty of water and herbal teas, seems to work OK for me.
By Phoenix07 July 16, 2008 6:02pm
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Is Coffee the key to the Fountain of Youth?
Dr. Orrange
There was a time when Bayer came out with then the wonder drug Aspirin. This was fine until some one was losing business at the other end. Of course, Aspirin, yes I have heard of it. It causes bleeding in the stomach and is bad for the ulcers.
There is was. All stopped or reduced the intake of Aspirin.
Next comes the many Aspirin from the Indian and Far eastern side.
Of course, we want the German company to come back and combat the Indian, Chinese, Italian and others.
Therefore, we come up again with the breaking news as usual.
The intake of 25 mg of Aspirin is good of viscosity of blood and we must take this. The blood becomes thin and we stop the heart strokes.
So there we have about one drug.
Same with coffee. It is good one morning, then competition makes us think, we start and rethink. It is good.
Reminds me of the poor countries where the minister wakes up, has a tiff with the wife, gets a bottle of soft drink on his head. He goes to office and tells the secretary, “Call the president of the X Company and tell him, I say he is to increase the price of the soft drink from today and that is the order.
I thank you
Firozali A. Mulla DBA
P.O.Box 6044
Dar-Es-Salaam
Tanzania
East Africa
By firozalimulla July 15, 2008 1:08pm
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Hooray! Hopefully, next week will be 'Why Chocolate is a Vegetable and counts as one of your 5 a day' (it is made from cocoa beans and sugar beet which are both kind of veggies, so maybe...)
By Lizzie July 15, 2008 12:10pm
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Yay! Hopefully you'll blog soon about Martini's being good for you... then we'll be in business.
By HelloChrissy July 14, 2008 10:01pm
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Well I have been drinking either black tea or black coffe all my life so I think I will just hang in there for now.
By Jennijem July 14, 2008 6:34pm