Coffee Intake Associated With Lowered Mortality Even For Genetic "Slow Metabolizers"

[Dan W]

Association of Coffee Drinking With Mortality by Genetic Variation in Caffeine Metabolism

Coffee drinking was inversely associated with mortality, including among those drinking 8 or more cups per day and those with genetic polymorphisms indicating slower or faster caffeine metabolism. These findings suggest the importance of noncaffeine constituents in the coffee-mortality association and provide further reassurance that coffee drinking can be a part of a healthy diet.

I don't have access to the full text, but they say that results were also similar for instant, ground, and decaffeinated coffee.

 

[dbh25]

Do they define a cup as 8 oz?

 

[Rafe]

 

[lollipop]

This is awesome. Honestly coffee has been such a good add-in for my diet. Took years however, to overcome all the anti-coffee programming I had. Also, I improved my diet at the same time so never had coffee issues as I was always well-fed.