Remember when coffee was bad for you, and blood pressure.
Writing in
The Journal of Nutrition, researchers from Tufts University said they looked at the coffee-drinking habits of 46,332 Americans between 1999 and 2018, when they were part of the U.S. government’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
They had three big findings:
- First, drinking one cup of coffee per day was linked to a 16% lower risk of death for any of the participants over the study period, from any cause.
- Next, drinking more coffee was linked to an even slightly better result; for example, study participants who drank 2-3 cups per day had a 17% lower risk of “all-cause mortality.”
- Finally, the benefit only applied to black coffee.
Adding cream or anything beyond a very small amount of sugar resulted in study participants having the same all-cause mortality rate as people who drank no coffee at all.
