Maybe the economy hasn’t recovered yet, and maybe some of us don’t quite have jobs yet, and maybe I haven’t sold my house yet (buyers are just too picky, or decision-challenged, or something), but at least I know I’m on my way to a healthy old age, if not immortality.
Check out the good news in the WSJ today:
This month alone, an analysis in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that people who drink three to four cups of java a day are 25% less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than those who drink fewer than two cups. And a study presented at an American Association for Cancer Research meeting found that men who drink at least six cups a day have a 60% lower risk of developing advanced prostate cancer than those who didn’t drink any.
Earlier studies also linked coffee consumption with a lower risk of getting colon, mouth, throat, esophageal and endometrial cancers. People who drink coffee are also less likely to have cavities, gallstones, cirrhosis of the liver, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, or to commit suicide, studies have found. Last year, researchers at Harvard University and the University of Madrid assessed data on more than 100,000 people over 20 years and concluded that the more coffee they drank, the less likely they were to die during that period from any cause.
Excellent. And while my income stream isn’t quite what it should be yet, for Christmas I got three pounds of Starbucks beans (two of them from my man Mike Fitts, as reliable a crew member as Preserved Killick), and a new Starbucks card with $20 on it.
Just think what 8 or 9 cups could do! That’s about what I consume.
Actually, I should have compared Mike to Barret Bonden — or better yet, Tom Pullings. I just thought of Killick because of the coffee association…
If only I had the influence to get Tom — I mean, Mike — his own command. Not much I can do when I’m stuck on the shore on half-pay myself…
Correlation is not causation.
People who can tolerate so much coffee may simply be hardier specimens to begin with…sigh
Yeah!! Except I think it makes my RLS worse.
Does de-caf achieve the same results?
Well, now I checked out the link–and while it does apply to decaf as well, you have to admit that you did quote the best part of the article, without all the qualifiers. Still, it gives me courage to enjoy my joe.
and somebody needs to check out the kidney stone link thing as well . . .
FYI, I haven’t been blogging because I’m in Memphis. Just visited one of my favorite Starbucks(es) — at White Station and Poplar. (Can you believe they don’t pay me for all these positive mentions? I need to get some lessons from Shop Tart.)
I’m going to go back there in a while to get a refill. I plan to take my laptop, and maybe I can post something while I’m there…
I’m thinking the kidney stone thing is as much because coffee drinkers don’t drink enough water.