The surprising habit in morning coffee that is really good for your health
A study of nearly 200,000 people found one of the most striking findings we heard recently.
It turns out that a little sugar in your coffee can prolong life.
How little?
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02/06/2022
Thursday, 02 June 2022, 06:11 Updated: 07:03
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After years of telling you that sugar is not good for health and that it is best to avoid it, comes a surprising study that claims that adding a teaspoon of sugar to a cup of coffee may be the key to a longer life.
Scientists have found that those who drink coffee have a lower risk of dying early compared to those who do not drink coffee at all, but those who like their coffee sweet are even less likely to die.
Researchers in China who followed a group of British adults for an average of seven years found that people who drank between a cup and a half to three and a half cups of coffee with caffeine and sugar were less likely to die during that time, compared to those who did not drink coffee or those who did not drink coffee at all.
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People who drank any amount of coffee without the sweetener were up to 21 percent less likely to die than those who did not drink coffee at all.
And here's the surprising part - those who like their coffee sweet were 31 percent less likely to die than people who did not drink coffee during the follow-up period - provided they kept their coffee consumption between one and a half to three and a half cups a day, provided they added only one tablespoon of sugar On average for the whole day.
Very surprising findings.
Teaspoon of sugar in coffee (Photo: ShutterStock, gosphotodesign)
Drinking coffee has been linked to a lower risk of dying from any cause, cancer and heart disease.
It does not matter if people drank decaffeinated, instant or ground coffee - the results were right for everyone.
What about artificial sweeteners?
The team notes that their results were not unequivocal for the participants who added artificial sweeteners to their coffee.
Earlier studies have shown that the drink puts coffee drinkers at lower risk of death, but these studies did not differentiate between sweetened coffee and unsweetened coffee.
During the new study, researchers examined data on more than 171,000 adults who participated in the British Biobank study's health behavior questionnaire.
The healthy volunteers, who did not suffer from known cases of heart disease or cancer, answered nutrition and health questions to determine the effect of their coffee drinking habits.
The scientists followed each person from 2009 to 2018.
Still, it is important to say that despite the results, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, they do not prove that drinking coffee is the only reason why participants' risk of dying earlier is lower.
One of the reasons for this, apart from the fact that it is a self-report, was that the average amount of sugar that the participants added to the coffee was much lower than the amount usually added to some of the coffee drinks sold in the chains.
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"Our study found that adults who drank moderate amounts of sugar-sweetened coffee every day were about 30 percent less likely to die from any cause during the average seven-year follow-up period compared to those who did not drink coffee at all," said study author Dan Liu.
From the Southern University of Medicine, "These new findings are of clinical relevance and public health."
"Drinking coffee was associated with a lower risk of death whether you added sugar or not," adds Annals of Internal Medicine editor Dr. Christina Wei. "The connection between drinking coffee with artificial sweeteners and your risk of dying was less clear in the study.
The authors found that regular coffee drinking was associated with a lower risk of dying from any cause, whether cancer or heart disease.
The low risk of death associated with moderate levels of coffee drinking was true regardless of whether you drank decaffeinated coffee, instant coffee or ground coffee. "
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