Not elder law: Coffee rocks!
Middle-aged adults whoenjoy a few cups of coffee every day apparently have a lower risk ofdying from
heart disease than people who don’t drink coffee,researchers reported Monday. The findings, published in the Annalsof Internal Medicine, come from two studies that followed nearly128,000 U.S. health professionals for more than two decades. The researchers found that men andwomen who regularly drank a few cups of coffee each day were slightlyless likely to die during the study period — mainly due to a lowerrisk of death from cardiovascular disease. Among women, those who drank at leasttwo to three cups per day were one-quarter to one-third less likely todie of heart problems or stroke than women who did not drink coffee. For men, a protective effect emergedonly with higher levels of coffee consumption — at least four to fivecups of coffee per day.
The findings do not prove that coffeemakes for a healthier heart, according to the researchers, led by Dr.Esther Lopez-Garcia of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain. Nontheless, they write, the results are “consistent” with the beneficial health effects other research has attributed to coffee.