Drinking coffee could help you live longer, study says


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With or without sugar, coffee continues to pour possible health benefits, study suggests. – Photo: THE STAR/Yap Chee Hong

Coffee drinkers, new research reinforces previous findings that your daily cup of joe may help you live longer — regardless of whether you add a bit of sugar.

Compared to non-coffee drinkers, regular consumers of unsweetened coffee were 16% to 21% less likely to die during a seven-year follow-up period, according to a new study in the May 31 edition of the peer-reviewed Annals of Internal Medicine. Those who added sugar and drank 1 1/2 -3 1/2 cups daily of sweetened coffee were 29% to 31% less likely to die, researchers said.

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