Your Daily Cup of Coffee May Be Linked to a Longer Lifespan Good
news for all you coffee drinkers out there! The next time
someone asks you if you really need that third cup of coffee,
you can say yes, because a major government study published in
The New England Journal of Medicine last week suggests that
coffee drinkers may live longer than non-coffee drinkers. We
already know that coffee can improve your mood, reduce
headaches, control blood sugar, and may help decrease your risk
of colon cancer. Other research suggests it may help with memory
recall and that it can increase energy expenditure (good news
for those trying to lose weight), and that it may help ease the
severity of asthma attacks. However, this is the first study
that's ever demonstrated a relationship between coffee
consumption and lifespan. Researchers from the National
Institute of Health analyzed the coffee-drinking habits of
400,000 people over a 13-year period, making it the largest
study ever of the relationship between coffee and heal