{"id":83573,"date":"2015-11-18T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=83573"},"modified":"2015-11-18T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T11:22:49","slug":"drink-more-coffee-and-youre-less-likely-to-die-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/83573-drink-more-coffee-and-youre-less-likely-to-die-young","title":{"rendered":"Drink more coffee and you\u2019re less likely to die young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have found that drinking 3 to 5 cups of coffee a day lowered the risk of premature death by up to 15% compared to those who drink no coffee.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers analysed health records of more than 200,000 people that\u00a0were mined from three clinical trials that included doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Participants were periodically given food questionnaires and followed for up to 30 years, over the course of which 30,000 participants died.<\/p>\n<p>While the study only reveals correlation,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/11\/coffee-drinking-linked-to-lower-mortality-risk-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica noted<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that it follows decades of studies that found many health benefits linked to drinking coffee.<\/p>\n<p>This includes lower risks of cardiovascular disease, liver disease, and diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>The health effects of heavy coffee drinking has been a point of contention, though.<\/p>\n<p>This may be because heavy coffee drinkers also tend to be smokers.<\/p>\n<p>With smokers included in the study results, the risk of premature death\u00a0for those who drink between 3 and 5 cups a day was only 5% to 9% lower.<\/p>\n<p>When the researchers removed smokers from the results, the statistics changed significantly \u2013 going up to 15%.<\/p>\n<p>Results from the study also showed that drinking coffee was linked to lower risks of cardiovascular disease, neurological disease, and suicide.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Written in collaboration with an article that originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/146551-drink-more-coffee-to-avoid-dying-young.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/83565-top-5-remastered-hd-collections.html\">Top 5 remastered HD collections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/83459-fallout-4s-season-pass-to-usher-in-new-era-of-dlc-abuse.html\">Fallout 4\u2019s season pass to usher in new era of DLC abuse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/83369-steams-adoption-of-the-rand-means-cheaper-games.html\">Steam\u2019s adoption of the Rand means cheaper games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of 200,000 people has linked coffee drinking to a lower risk of premature death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":83575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11319,1969,16421,10879,1886],"class_list":["post-83573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-coffee","tag-news-2","tag-premature-death","tag-report","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}