Noticed a lot of tea-drinking in the stories lately. Well I'm gonna speak up for all us who are addicted to our cuppa joe. Found this on Gizmodo after hearing about it on the news.
Coffee Drinkers Live Longer
Millions of us start the morning with a coffee and think nothing of it. But new medical research suggests that it could be helping you live longer–if you drink enough of it.
The large-scale study, which is published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that men who drank six cups of coffee or more every day were 10 per cent less likely to die during the 14 years of the study. Women who drank six cups or more were 15 per cent less likely to die over that same period. The result, fairly obviously, suggests that coffee drinkers live longer.
http://gizmodo.com/5911043/coffee-drinkers-live-longer?utm_m...
Wadda ya know! Another top off here, please!
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One must consider, do they
One must consider, do they really LIVE longer, or does it just seem that way??? I mean, really, what makes a zombie actually tick? ;}
CaroL
I could tell you, but . . . .
I don't work there anymore!
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
O.M.G. ! If coffee is that potent...
Us at the bank are like immortal or something?
Um, like why am I talking this way?
Eeeeh gods!
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
To take joy in a victory
you need to make sure that there is one.
Ten per cent better survival than what? Where does it say that it was tea versus coffee? There are studies that try to say tea drinkers live longer because of the anti-oxidants. But then too never say longer than what.
Both use comparative statements and neither state what they are comparing against. That makes it nonsense and nothing more.
Coffee is a stimulant and most of us don't get enough stimulation. Tea contains antioxidants and most of us don't get enough antioxidants either. In fact most of us don't get enough nuclear radiation o drink enough water for optimum health and longevity.
So, drink four to five cups of good coffee a day, four or five cups of a good black tea. Get a slab of granite to put on your bed (but ventilate your home) and drink a glass of water with every meal.
An interesting word to look up if you do not know it is 'hormesis'. Yeah, I know, I am a cynic....
Thera.
They do state what they are comparing to...
There was a similar study (perhaps the same one) mentioned on the CBC. The study compared coffee drinkers to non-coffee drinkers. Not to drinkers of anything else. They don't mention tea. I believe tea was mentioned here as a joke, not as a slight. The study I read essentially concluded with two possible outcomes:
1) those who lived longer may not have done so because of the coffee but at least it proves that coffee is not directly harmful; or, 2) people live longer if they drink enough coffee because "the beverage contains more than 1,000 compounds besides caffeine that might be important to health." (Citation)
Studies are not nonsense so long as they are performed scientifically, have verifiable data to back up their conclusions, and open their methods and data to public scrutiny. It's an interesting study but you are correct in saying that it doesn't tell us anything of great import. We'll have to wait for someone try and dispute the findings first.
Studies are not nonsense if done properly
But most reporting about studies is nonsense because the facts are not reported pure and entire.
I've not read the study and am not in a position to critique it. If I was slagging off at anything it was the reporting (the reporting the poster read).
It is worth noting though that even "science itself" is noting that it's own studies are becoming less and less credible. Nowadays we have people publishing and peer reviewing studies who do not even understand the Monte Hall problem which should be a trivial exercise for someone with enough acumen to perform or review a study.
Statistics and probability can often be quite counter-intuitive and lead to many wrong conclusions. There would be quite a number of people in jail on statistical evidence (particularly for DNA) that is quite false. There have been a number if incontrivertiable convictions reversed when other evidence has finally been admitted.
So much of our science today is based on statistics that I think a demonstrable sound knowledge of statistics should be a requirement for those involved in studies and research - oh, and serving on a jury.
Thera ;)
What About Wine?
I'm going to conduct a study to prove that wine makes me live longer, even if it kills me.
Now there's a goal!
I can endorse! I'd help but I'm off alcohol due to my heart meds. Didn't drink enough coffee!
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
the true reason
The reason why those who drink large amounts of coffee per day live longer... is because their so wired up.
Pacing nervously back and forth... run up the stairs... realize your not going where you wanted to and run back down
yes that's right folks... your so hyped up on coffee that at the end of your work day you've walked and ran more than most people do for heavy exercise!!... only problem is that now your a stressed out nervous wreck twiching on your shrinks couch smoking 1/3 a cigarette before you light another... but hey! your getting your exercise!
Nope!
Never smoked. Tobacco, that is! Filthy habit.
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Well, I normally
do at least two pots a day. Added to my mean and ugly, I'll prolly live forever. After all, to issue a quote " the more you complain, the longer God lets you live." I'm a shoe in with all combined.
Used to drink a lot of coffee
Used to drink a lot of coffee at work (occupational hazard -> last coffee sensus was about 2t coffee powder / about 10.000 employees which is high). I also drank, and still drink a few pots of tea a day. Sinse I stopped drinking so mutch coffee (I'm at about 4 cups / 1 pot a week at the moment) I gained about 20kg, don't have enough exercise and am almost always tired.
So hey for getting hyped up on coffee.
Lynne
member of Coffeeadddicts Anomenous
Obelix fell into the magic potion
when he was a little boy. Consuming the entire cauldron-full of potion lead to the effect becoming permanent.
If he had fallen into a cauldron of coffee and drank it all, would he have become ageless?