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Science Says Coffee Addiction Increases Lifespan?
This is so weird I had to report it. According to the Detroit Free Press, drinking up to six cups of coffee every day could lower your odds of kicking the bucket.
You read that correctly: Drinking half-a-dozen cups o' Joe could help you live longer.
The main reason? It cuts your risk of dying from heart disease, as a study from the Harvard School of Public Health found.
Coffee addicts won't lower their risk of dying from cancer, but preventing heart disease is a start. The study looked at coffee-drinking habits of 41,736 men and 86,216 women with no history of cardiovascular disease or cancer. The women were watched for 24 years, the men followed for 18.
Researchers learned more coffee can actually lower risk of death, explained by lower levels of cardiovascular disease deaths. Women who drank two to three cups per day lowered their risks of dying by a whopping 25 per cent compared to those who do not drink coffee.
An interesting observation in the world of science and health. The only drawbacks: You spend your life in the bathroom dealing with the diuretic side effects of the drink, you vibrate in your office chair for eight hours a day and sleep less than a U.S. political candidate during election season. At least you'll have more years to enjoy those things.
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LOL! Yep---I have had all of those symptoms at one time or another! I drink between 3-5 cups a day...maybe it'll help me fight off heart disease! Ya think? :))
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Ha! ha! I had to laugh when I read this for I'm just into my second pot of coffee. And I usually have a cup of coffee just before I go to bed and I sleep like a baby.
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@ 666divine
Ha! ha! I had to laugh when I read this for I'm just into my second pot of coffee. And I usually have a cup of coffee just before I go to bed and I sleep like a baby.
You're lucky! If I drank coffee after 6 p.m. I'd never get to sleep! -
@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
You're lucky! If I drank coffee after 6 p.m. I'd never get to sleep!
Yeah, that's what most people seem to be complain about. I think my body must just be immune to caffeine amongst other things. -
I am not much of a sleeper but it isn't coffee, I rarely have a cup past 8 am but 3 cups between 6 and 8 am. Hmm, maybe it is time for a cup in the afternoon.
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Well I drink one pot (12 cups) in the morning and 8 cups when I get home from work. On days off I drink 2 - 3 pots per day.
Good to know its doing something other than keeping me calm. lol
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@ RCB2875
Well I drink one pot (12 cups) in the morning and 8 cups when I get home from work. On days off I drink 2 - 3 pots per day.
Good to know its doing something other than keeping me calm. lol
Keeping you calm?!?!?! Holy crap, if I drank that much coffee I'd be spinning so fast, the earth itself would probably start tilting! Wow, I'm impressed. -
@ Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
Keeping you calm?!?!?! Holy crap, if I drank that much coffee I'd be spinning so fast, the earth itself would probably start tilting! Wow, I'm impressed.
ehh you get used too it after a while and it loses its effect. I do know that if I do not drink something with caffeine a time or two within a day I get very grouchy and a headache sometimes. I think its the heat of the coffee and the taste that calms me not the caffeine. lol -
The reason I am so impressed is because I too used to drink tons of coffee, not quite at your Masters/Phd level, but well over one pot (8 cups) and by the time lunch or quitting time rolled around, I was flying around a mile a minute. I had to finally cut way back or I figured I would probably stroke out or something like that!
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You mean that I need to once again try to acquire a taste for that nasty tasting stuff??
Won't tea do the same thing?? :-)
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@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
You mean that I need to once again try to acquire a taste for that nasty tasting stuff??
Won't tea do the same thing?? :-)
Nasty tasting stuff? Never had cappuccino or put a bit of Irish Cream in your coffee? Can't do that with tea. -
Oh Cynthia, I absolutely love the taste of coffee and would drink more ... if only I could. Now, I mostly limit myself to just one cup, today I was up at 6 and I've had three and I can totally feel it right now!
I am like you, lots and lots of tea!
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@ Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
The reason I am so impressed is because I too used to drink tons of coffee, not quite at your Masters/Phd level, but well over one pot (8 cups) and by the time lunch or quitting time rolled around, I was flying around a mile a minute. I had to finally cut way back or I figured I would probably stroke out or something like that!
LMAO Masters/Phd? Well I do love the bean water. I panic if I get down to my last pound of coffee. lol I am a bit picky though.. I usually only drink Community brand New Orleans Blend with chicory. I used to drive cross country so drinking coffee was a must and it just stuck with me. -
@ 666divine
Nasty tasting stuff? Never had cappuccino or put a bit of Irish Cream in your coffee? Can't do that with tea.
My youngest daughter had me taste something that she got at Starbucks that was quite good but I don't remember what it was. -
@ Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
Oh Cynthia, I absolutely love the taste of coffee and would drink more ... if only I could. Now, I mostly limit myself to just one cup, today I was up at 6 and I've had three and I can totally feel it right now!
I am like you, lots and lots of tea!
I have tried many times to acquire a taste for coffee but just don't like it.
I do drink tea every day and like it both hot and iced. -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
I have tried many times to acquire a taste for coffee but just don't like it.
I do drink tea every day and like it both hot and iced.
My wife is the same way. She likes all those weird tea's though. Green, herbal something anothers and different flavord.. blagh.. Just a plain ice'd tea will do fine if I must. -
@ RCB2875
LMAO Masters/Phd? Well I do love the bean water. I panic if I get down to my last pound of coffee. lol I am a bit picky though.. I usually only drink Community brand New Orleans Blend with chicory. I used to drive cross country so drinking coffee was a must and it just stuck with me.
Ah, I know what you mean about driving. Whenever I drive long distances, I've got to have a cup 'o joe all the time. In fact, I usually buy two cups for myself (with lots of water too) whenever I start a trip! -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
I have tried many times to acquire a taste for coffee but just don't like it.
I do drink tea every day and like it both hot and iced.
See, I'm the opposite. I find the taste of tea to be rather disgusting. But then again, I was raised on coffee. Since childhood, my dad used to serve it to us for breakfast. Guess in today's world, that would be considered abuse or neglect or something. lol -
666, much to my parent's absolute dismay and disgust, I used to drink Coke for breakfast, now that used to really get me going for the day!
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@ RCB2875
My wife is the same way. She likes all those weird tea's though. Green, herbal something anothers and different flavord.. blagh.. Just a plain ice'd tea will do fine if I must.
I mostly like just your ordinary black tea and like very few herbal teas.
Green is OK occasionally and I have tried white tea.
I do like good iced tea which you can't get in most restaurants it mostly seems to have a "funny" taste to it. -
@ 666divine
See, I'm the opposite. I find the taste of tea to be rather disgusting. But then again, I was raised on coffee. Since childhood, my dad used to serve it to us for breakfast. Guess in today's world, that would be considered abuse or neglect or something. lol
Neither myself or my siblings were ever given coffee. It was an "adult" drink, not for children. LOL -
@ Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
666, much to my parent's absolute dismay and disgust, I used to drink Coke for breakfast, now that used to really get me going for the day!
I have a friend who always has to have a Coke first thing in the morning. She is so hyper that she makes me tired just watching her. :-)
She thinks that I am so slow that she about has a breakdown just watching me do something. LOL
She had to follow me from a restaurant last night to a concert. She probably was about to go crazy having to drive the speed limit. -
Cynthia ... LOL!
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@ Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
Cynthia ... LOL!
Yes but you know that I stuck to the speed limit just for her "benefit." ROFL -
Bad, bad girl ... all sweet on the outside, but a devilish side too!
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Ah well, this dial up is driving me nuts, got to get off here before I go totally round the bend. Night ...
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@ Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
666, much to my parent's absolute dismay and disgust, I used to drink Coke for breakfast, now that used to really get me going for the day!
Good thing we didn't team up at school - imagine the disruption and frustration we'd cause in the classroom? -
@ Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
Ah well, this dial up is driving me nuts, got to get off here before I go totally round the bend. Night ...
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