Millions of us start the morning with a coffee and think nothing of it. But new medical research suggests that it could be helping you live longer—if you drink enough of it. The large-scale study, which is published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that men who drank six cups of coffee or more every day were 10 per cent less likely to die during the 14 years of the study. Women who drank six cups or more were 15 per cent less likely to die over that same period. The result, fairly obviously, suggests that coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers have also shown that the effect is seen across almost all causes of death, including heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, diabetes, and infections. The effect, however, seems to decline with lower consumption—and a single cup of coffee a day was found to have negligible effect. Dr Neal Freedman, one of the researchers from the National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, in Rockville in Maryland, USA, explains: "Coffee contains more than 1000 compounds that might affect the risk of death. The most well-studied compound is caffeine, although similar associations for caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee in the current study and a previous study suggest that, if the relationship between coffee consumption and mortality were causal, other compounds in coffee—for example, antioxidants, including polyphenols—might be important." All of which means, of course, that next time someone says you're drinking too much coffee, you know exactly what to say. 现在人们生活也好了，大家就开始琢磨怎么能长寿的问题了。也许你有每天早上来一杯咖啡的习惯，心里也没怎么琢磨——这不就是咖啡么!有什么可想的?但是你也许不知道，你与死亡交汇的几率又小了一点点…… 一项刊登在《新英格兰医学期刊》上的报道称：在过去14年的研究中，每天喝6杯以上咖啡的人群，比常人的死亡率要低10%，而其中爱喝咖啡的女性比常人的死亡率低15%!从而可以得出结论：喝咖啡的人更中意长寿! 研究表明，只要你喝了咖啡，什么心脏病、脑血栓、呼吸道疾病，甚至糖尿病的发病率都会降低。不过要提醒你的是，每天只喝一杯咖啡的效果并不明显，“6杯+”是一个有效基数。(那岂不是不到6杯的话，前面的5杯就都白瞎了) 就这一现象，在美国卫生部癌症研究所的Neal Freedman博士这么解释：一说到咖啡，大家都想到的是咖啡因，但是其实除了咖啡因咖啡中还含有1000多种不同的元素。经研究，无论是普通咖啡还是低咖啡因的咖啡都可以降低饮用人群的死亡率，所以我想应该是这些诸如氨基酸等物质起到了效果。 读了通篇文章，我一直都在想，这个是不是咖啡厂商的“软广”，不过不管怎么说，爱喝咖啡的同学们被问起来有的说了。“你问我为什么喝这么多咖啡?你难道没看报道吗?‘每天6杯咖啡，远离死亡困扰’”…… |
