Three coffees a day help you live longer - Atrial Fibrillati...
Three coffees a day help you live longer
Then with the amount of coffee I drink, decaf mainly, I'll live forever!
Glad to see this bit in the report "There have been studies looking at caffeine, but the protective effects of coffee have been found with both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee,' explains Professor Hanif."
Before I retired 20 odd years ago I would have eight cups a day while at work. Three were real coffee from the office percolator the others were from a vending machine.
Got to sell newspapers haven't you.
They rely on Diana for that ! .
I've not been drinking real coffee for a couple of years as it seemed to worsen my digestive problems. My GP's theory on that is that is down to how it has been roasted.
The coffee from one particular outlet always gave me acidity and heartburn.
Never drink coffee at home. only occasionally (maybe once a week) after a meal out. My student years living from a coffee pot which was never emptied until you couldn't get any more coffee in turned me right off it.
By the way there is seldom such a thing as De caf anything. Reduced caf would be a more accurate description as some almost always remains.
I'm rambling now but in my lifetime so many things which we have been told are carcinogenic one year are then SO good for you a few years later and vice versa. Tomatoes, peanut butter. toast, tea, coffee, you name it all the same. Best not bother with these articles in my view . Next year coffee will be a killer. lol
This rather intrigued me. Is it going to be pro or anti veg?
The latest findings from the massive PURE (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology) study, one of the Hot Line registries slated for presentation August 29, address the link between fruit, vegetable, and legume intake and cardiovascular disease and death among 135,000 people in 18 countries. “I think this work is very exciting,” Kristensen said.
Oh for the days when I used to drink Continental Coffee and smoke Gauloises and Gitanes.
It amused me in Quebec where they were more French than the French but smoking Du Maurier.
Sobranie Black Russian. Then switched to Marlboro till I gave up in 82.
Oh ..... Sobranie Black Russian! (the ones wrapped in black with gold tips???). As a smoker 50 years ago I used to think they were SO cool 
A big difference from the one with the Cowboy who got lung cancer. My first two jobs were with wholesale tobacco companies and there were not many that I did not try or get samples of.
I bought 200 Russian cigarettes when we were there and could not give them away. They had cost about 4p a packet. They were even worse than Indonesian ones with bits of spice in them.
I'm with BobD on this one. Over the years the advice about what is, and isn't, good for you has changed quite dramatically in some cases (eg eggs) so I decided a while ago to ignore articles in the popular press and to stick with my long-dead grandma's advice:
"Everything in moderation" and "A little bit of what you fancy does you good."
Works for me, though I appreciate this won't be the case for everyone here.
The Scottish Doctor I had in Surrey said his longevity was due to moderation in all things and an excess of Whisky. For some reason he did not drive and his wife had to chauffeur him around. He did not mention the tobacco in the huge pipe he smoked in the surgery.
LOL!
He came to see me one Saturday when I was unwell. He gave me a prescription and picked up my morning paper and quickly marked off three horses. This will make you feel better he said. They all won so I had a relapse as I had not backed them.
He didn't drive because he was always over the limit.
He always seemed sober and never smelt of whisky. He gave up the practice when his wife who was even older than him died.
I always remember when he once referred me to a consultant and he listed my medications saying: A gross case of overprescribing I'm afraid. The consultant evidently did not agree and increased the strength of them.
He sounds quite a character - and fondly remembered!
This was of course back in the days when you just turned up at the surgery and sat there with about thirty others. He always called in women with children first.
He never spoke much about himself though as fellow Scots we did often talk about the country. When at Glasgow University he had played football with Queens Park the Scottish amateur club who for years had been one of the top teams in the Scottish First Division.
I much preferred him to his foreign replacement with poor English !
One weak latte and I don't sleep. And I don't suffer with Paryox AF as much as many I read on here. Luckily Im not keen of it anyway.
All of these comments have me laughing! However I do remember giving up percolated coffee in the 80s as the new opinion then was it was carcinogenic (or was it the other way round?). Older and hopefully wiser but definitely more cynical I investigate any new research much more thoroughly now.
We may have been told that it was not good for us but from the number of Coffee Shops forever opening the message has been ignored. George Clooney might even have made as much from his coffee enterprises as his movies.
Coffee appears more effective than statins at prolonging life. That works for me. Some doctors will frown at that, as they do with alcohol, which also prolongs life much more than statins, when taken in moderation.
It is of course possible that if you do take things in moderation then you have more will power and it's that which keeps you in good health!
Next we will be told which coffees are the most effective
Ha, if you believe things you read in the Daily Mail then good luck to you!
I personally have had to give up coffee because it kept leading to bouts of ectopic beats. Never AF, but the ectopic beats were still enough to be annoying.
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