Multiple recent investigations indicate that drinking coffee can bring multiple health benefits. One of the most current studies affirms that coffee drinkers tend to live longer than those who abstain from drinking.
Coffee is considered by the Harvard Nutrition Source as a healthy drink, especially when consumed in moderation and without sugar.
In addition to caffeine, coffee is rich in polyphenols with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, the drink is a complex mixture of more than one hundred biologically active compounds.
Drink two to three cups of coffee a day may protect against cardiovascular disease and premature death, according to the results of a new study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
Drinking two to three cups of caffeinated coffee a day was linked to the greatest reduction in premature death. Consumption of ground coffee reduced the risk of death by 27%, decaffeinated coffee by 14 % and caffeinated instant coffee by 11 %.
“In this large observational study, ground, instant, and decaffeinated coffee were associated with equivalent reductions in the incidence of cardiovascular disease and death from cardiovascular disease or from any cause” , points out electrophysiologist Peter Kistler, from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Australia.
The study used data from the UK Biobank, a research database containing the coffee consumption preferences of nearly 450,000 adults who did not have arrhythmia or other cardiovascular disease at baseline of the study.
Study participants were grouped according to their daily coffee consumption and the type of coffee they usually drank. The sample provided an average of 14 and a half years of health information.
The study was observational in nature so it cannot prove a direct cause and effect.
A previous study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine also found that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of premature death.
According to data from the study that included 171, 616 participants, who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee every day had up to a 30% less likely to die from any cause over a seven-year period compared to non-coffee drinkers.
Recent research has found that moderate amounts of black coffee may reduce the risk of heart disease , as well as different types of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes.
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