Drinking seven cups a day could help you live longer
The health benefits (преимущества) of coffee are regularly disputed but a new study has provided some good news for caffeine lovers. One of the largest reports of its kind, researchers from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health have found that drinking coffee is associated with a lower risk of early death.
In fact, they revealed (обнаружили) that drinking up to seven cups every day – twice the amount (количество) of caffeine recommended by the UK Food Standards Agency – could cut death rates by 16 per cent.
For the study, the team used data from the UK Biobank, through which 500,000 UK adults aged between 38 and 73 completed health questionnaires (опросники), underwent (прошли) physical examinations and provided biological samples.
The researchers asked each person about their smoking and drinking habits, as well as their coffee consumption, including how many cups they drank a day and the type: decaffeinated (без кофеина), ground or instant. During the 10-year follow-up period, around 14,200 participants died, however, the researchers found that those with a higher level of coffee intake (потребление) lived for longer. The study found that participants who drank eight cups or more per day saw their death rates (показатели) cut by 14 per cent, while this increased to 16 per cent among those who drank six to seven cups.
