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- Go ahead! Have that second cup of coffee.
- A new study of 170,000 people found those who drank coffee were less likely to die during the study period than those who didn't drink java.
- Researchers studied people 37 to 73 years old for a year and discovered their health habits and coffee intake. The researchers caught up with the test group seven years later.
- People that drank one and a half to three and a half cups of coffee, even with a teaspoon of sugar, had up to a 30 percent lower risk of dying than non-coffee drinkers.
- Harvard professor Dr. Christina Wee, who edited the study, said, "It's huge. There are very few things that reduce your mortality by 30 percent."
- Wee cautioned, "Biologically, it is plausible that coffee could actually confer some direct health benefits, but we can't say for sure that it's the coffee drinking per se that leads to the lower mortality risk."