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No, it doesn't prevent death, but it does seem to delay it, and who's not for that? Coffee can make you a happier person, a nicer and more open-minded person, a more intelligent, alert and beautiful person who lives a healthier life—and lives it longer. We coffee drinkers knew it all along, but medical science in recent years has been abuzz with confirmation that our faith is more than just a happy-dance of caffeinated brain cells. C’mon, you’re saying (especially if you are coffee-deprived as you’re reading this)—extend your lifespan? Consider a study published in the June 2008 Annals of Internal Medicine. Tracking 129,000 people over two decades, scientists at the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Harvard School of Public Health concluded that, compared with those who shunned coffee, women drinking four to five cups of “black sunshine” a day were 34 percent less likely to die, and men drinking more than five cups a day were 44 percent less likely to die—of heart disease, that is. (All of them will eventually die of something.) Not only that; they found that the coffee drinkers were less likely to die prematurely from any cause—women 26 percent less and men 35 percent less. “The more coffee you drink, the less risk of mortality you have,” Esther Lopez-Garcia, Spanish epidemiologist and the study’s leader, told the press. “The general idea is that coffee is not so bad.” In recent years, often with scientists setting out to prove its harmful effects, coffee has been found to lessen the likelihood and severity of Alzheimer’s disease, many types of cancer, liver disease, depression, Type II diabetes, gallstones, kidney stones and Parkinson’s disease. Additionally, it seems efficacious in controlling some skin conditions, reducing inflammation and serving as a potent painkiller. read more

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