Cheat Death by Drinking Coffee

Aside from possibly protecting you from diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and alcoholic cirrhosis, a recent survey study suggests that women coffee drinkers have a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease or cancer.

Women consuming two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25 percent lower risk of death from heart disease during the follow-up period (which lasted from 1980 to 2004 and involved 84,214 women) as compared with non-consumers, and an 18 percent lower risk of death caused by something other than cancer or heart disease as compared with non-consumers during follow-up.

Before you use this to justify your coffee “addiction” to that java brew, take note that caffeine does have adverse effects, too. You might therefore be better off drinking decaf as their data indicates that even drinking decaffeinated coffee produces pretty much the same result (lower death risks). It probably won’t wake you up though!