Otro punto más para el Café

People Who Drink Coffee May Live Longer, Two Studies Suggest.

On its website, CBS News (7/10, Welch) reports people who drink coffee may live longer, according to two new studies that were both published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The first study "found that drinking one cup of coffee a day was associated with a 12 percent decrease in risk of death," and that drinking "two to three cups a day" decreased the risk of death by 18 percent. The second study "found coffee consumption was linked with a lower risk of death from all causes, and specifically for circulatory diseases and digestive diseases."

        Reuters (7/10, Seaman) reports that researchers from Johns Hopkins wrote in an accompanyingeditorial, "Recommending coffee intake to reduce mortality or prevent chronic disease would be premature," but "it is increasingly evident that moderate coffee intake up to 3 to 5 cups per day or caffeine intake up to 400 mg/d is not associated with adverse health effects in adults and can be incorporated into a healthy diet."