3 Cups a Day may help you live longer
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I have to have caffeine in the mornings or I get a headache. Haven't been able to wean myself off of it.
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I'm nearly caffeine free these days. Maybe 2-3 energy drinks a week, I only drink coffee at brunch because it makes me sleepy. Been too lazy to make cold brew lately. Guess I'm gonna die from lack of coffee.
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@tim_g, I"m not doubting the correlation, just the causation. (Did you know that there is a correlation between teacher salaries and beer sales? And no, teachers are not big drinkers.)
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@bj said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
@tim_g, I"m not doubting the correlation, just the causation. (Did you know that there is a correlation between teacher salaries and beer sales? And no, teachers are not big drinkers.)
What teachers are you talking to?
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Have not looked at this particular study but these types of food/health studies are notorious for small sample sizes and poor methodology.
Anything claiming to tell about the amazing health benefits of XYZ food item is pretty much to be ignored with extreme prejudice.
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@ndc said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
Have not looked at this particular study but these types of food/health studies are notorious for small sample sizes and poor methodology.
Anything claiming to tell about the amazing health benefits of XYZ food item is pretty much to be ignored with extreme prejudice.
Between the two studies something like 700K people were studied over 16 years.
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@ndc said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
Have not looked at this particular study but these types of food/health studies are notorious for small sample sizes and poor methodology.
Anything claiming to tell about the amazing health benefits of XYZ food item is pretty much to be ignored with extreme prejudice.
This one is pretty legitimate though.
One study examined the coffee-drinking patterns of more than 185,000 Americans over 16 years. The researchers found that regular coffee consumption was associated with lower death rates from all causes — and the more cups of coffee the subjects consumed per day, the greater the apparent benefit. In fact, those who reported drinking four or more cups per day enjoyed an 18 percent lower chance of death over the study period than those who said they drank no coffee.
In a second study, researchers in Europe looked at more than 520,000 people across 10 countries over 16 years. This study, too, found that those who drank several cups of coffee a day had lower death rates, regardless of country.
Two studies found similar outcomes. With gigantic (as far as medicinal and food science goes) sample sizes. My question is what type of death were included. Are they just looking at health related death or are we looking at everything including accidental and homicidal?
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@coliver Yeah that is certainly larger than most. Generally lucky if people are looking at more than a few dozen participants in some of these reports that come out.
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@ndc said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
@coliver Yeah that is certainly larger than most. Generally lucky if people are looking at more than a few dozen participants in some of these reports that come out.
Agreed completely. Unlike most other things coffee is pretty universal. So they can get a big sample size without much effort.
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@ndc said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
Have not looked at this particular study but these types of food/health studies are notorious for small sample sizes and poor methodology.
Anything claiming to tell about the amazing health benefits of XYZ food item is pretty much to be ignored with extreme prejudice.
The same for anything claiming "This will be the death of you".
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@dafyre said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
@ndc said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
Have not looked at this particular study but these types of food/health studies are notorious for small sample sizes and poor methodology.
Anything claiming to tell about the amazing health benefits of XYZ food item is pretty much to be ignored with extreme prejudice.
The same for anything claiming "This will be the death of you".
Indeed those are also as a general rule a hard pass.
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Because you are addicted to to caffeine.
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@harry-lui said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
Because you are addicted to to caffeine.
Who isn't these days?
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Me!
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@bj said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
Me!
*ties you to chair*
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I made a conscious decision to stop drinking soda: with diet, syrup, or sugar. Coffee smells great to me, taste awful, so I never got started. Once in a while I'll have a cup of tea, but I can go a week without tea and no headaches or other withdrawal symptoms.
A hot shower makes me up in the morning.
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@dafyre said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
@bj said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
Me!
*ties you to chair*
*forces you to drink 3 gallons of espresso*
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Cappuccino and Macchiato are the only ones you actually order in Italy. All the rest are American names. Espresso you get in Italy, but it is just called cafe, not espresso.
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@scottalanmiller said in 3 Cups a Day may help you live longer:
Cappuccino and Macchiato are the only ones you actually order in Italy. All the rest are American names. Espresso you get in Italy, but it is just called cafe, not espresso.
I think most of those are jokes... look at the ratios.
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Almond milk in place of disgusting regular milk... then sure! Then I'll have a whateveriato/cino.
