People who drink around three cups of coffee a day may live longer than non-coffee drinkers, a landmark study suggests.
In the largest analysis of its kind, scientists looked at data from more than 500,000 people in 10 European countries, including the UK, to explore the effect of coffee consumption on the risk of death.
Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and Imperial College London found that higher levels of coffee consumption were associated with a reduced risk of death from all causes, particularly from circulatory and digestive tract diseases.
It is estimated that 55 million cups of coffee are consumed in the UK every day, with many people unsure of the health benefits after decades of mixed messages.
Lead author Dr Marc Gunter of the IARC said: "We found that higher coffee consumption was associated with a lower risk of death from any cause, and specifically for circulatory diseases, and digestive diseases.
"Importantly, these results were similar across all of the 10 European countries, with variable coffee drinking habits and customs.
"Our study also offers important insights into the possible mechanisms for the beneficial health effects of coffee."
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
Just imagine. If the FP/12 did an about face on coffee--like they did with the black priesthood ban in 1978--the LDS church could scrape more dollars. The monolith would get 10% of each Social Security payment that tithe paying, U.S. TBMs would receive from living longer because he or she is drinking coffee.
They could just say, like they have with cola drinks, that it was never a commandment or doctrine not to drink it, they don't know where anyone ever got the notion that coffee was LDS ver boten and begin serving it at the MTC.
It might do Monson's and Nelson's hearts some good.
"Jesus gave us the gospel, but Satan invented church. It takes serious evil to formalize faith into something tedious and then pile guilt on anyone who doesn’t participate enthusiastically." - Robert Kirby
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. -- Henry Lawson
Obviously these people are not using the Holy Ghost.......... Perhaps it needs a cup of coffee to wake up so it can start getting to work on time......
Dr CamNC4Me
"Dr. Peterson and his Callithumpian cabal of BYU idiots have been marginalized by their own inevitable irrelevancy defending a fraud."
