A Massive New Study Says People Who Drink Coffee have a 30 Percent Lower Risk of Death – Article by Bill Murphy Jr. 6/4/2022 and published in INC magazine
Writing in the journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, using data relating to 171,616 people in Great Britain. The data was compiled over a seven-year study period: looking at people who drank between 1.5 and 3.5 cups of coffee each day. It was found that those who drank coffee had up to a 30 percent lower chance of dying from any cause during the study period than those who did not. The more coffee people drank, up to 3.5 cups, whether caffeinated or not, lowered their risk of death during the study. “It’s huge,” Dr. Christina Wee, a deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, told the New York Times in a report on the study. “There are very few things that reduce your mortality by 30 percent.”
And this isn’t the first study to suggest that drinking significant amounts of coffee could be related to longer lifespan. A 2017 study suggested that for every cup of coffee people consume each day, risk of heart failure or stroke goes down by 8 percent.
In 2019, – five cups a day is the point at which health problems might begin to show up due to coffee consumption, and could even outweigh the benefits. A Spanish study found that drinking four cups of coffee per day led to a 64 percent lower risk of dying among study participants compared to non-coffee drinkers. And, a British study of found that those who habitually drank coffee were between 10 and 15 percent less likely to die during any 10 year period.
Keep in mind, though, that it is possible that it’s not the coffee that provides the lower risk of death; maybe instead, it’s that people who drink coffee are also more likely to do something else healthy.