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A new study by researchers at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, shows that consumers of coffee, whether sweetened or unsweetened, are at lower risk of premature death.
Coffee fascinates researchers! This time, Chinese scientists have established that compared to non-drinkers of coffee, adults who consume between 1.5 and 3.5 cups a day, sweetened naturally or not, would be less likely to die in the following seven years. Their findings were published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
Data from the UK
To achieve these results, the scientists used data from the UK Biobank, an English database, which enabled them to gather the responses of 171,000 participants, without heart disease.
The authors then assessed the associations between consumption of sweetened, artificially sweetened, and unsweetened coffee with mortality.”all causes” and “cause-specific“.
Lower mortality for coffee drinkers
The scientists thus concluded that during the seven years of follow-up, participants who drank any amount of unsweetened coffee were “16-21% less likely to die than participants who did not drink coffee”.
They also found that participants who drank “1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee sweetened with sugar per day had a 29 to 31 percent lower risk of dying than participants who drank no coffee.”.
Note that the average added sugar did not exceed one teaspoon. No conclusion could be drawn for users of artificial sweeteners.
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Coffee, a social act
Coffee is a very popular drink in many countries. “Having a coffee is a real social act in France.” explains Dr Laurent Chevallier, nutritionist in Montpellier. “This is not insignificant and coffee has always symbolically represented strength. We take it to give ourselves a “boost”, even if in reality the excitement it causes on the body exhausts it, it is more negative than positive” reminds the specialist.
Dr. Chevallier therefore remains cautious about the results of this work and recalls that coffee “if it has some benefits, it also has acrylamide in its composition, it inhibits the absorption of iron at high doses and can accentuate dehydration in the morning, being diuretic”. To be consumed in moderation, therefore, even if it would make you live longer.