Always excited when I find good news about coffee. This in from a joint study of the University of Madrid and Harvard. Professors at the university analyzed histories of 84,214 women and 41, 736 men (Harvard’s Nurse Health Study) and found healthy women who drink coffee live longer. And it doesn’t matter if it’s decaf or the good stuff.
Seems women who drank two to three cups of caffeinated coffee each day had a 25% lower risk of dying from heart disease. (I knew coffee kept things humming.)
In the study women also had an 18% less risk of deaths from all causes. But get this when you increase the number of cups to 4-5 each day there is a 26% risk reduction! Gotta love these studies.
Unfortunately for men the results weren’t as clearcut.
Now they won’t give the total protection credit to coffee, but the researchers do say it merits additional study. (Do I hear a request for more research dollars here?) The thought is the polyphenols (chemist term for antioxidants) is somehow tied to the results.
Meanwhile I’ll just sit here enjoying my cups of coffee, espresso and serve it to all my healthy women family members and friends.
Not the usual grind,
A tip of the mug to T. Fresnell for the photo of the "healthy" woman at the market and to the Tenerife News for the heads up.