A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that coffee drinkers live longer. The study looked at the coffee-drinking habits of over 400,000 people over a 15-year period. The research team compared their statistics with those of people who did not drink coffee. The researchers found that male coffee drinkers lived ten per cent longer and women lived 15 per cent longer. The report said up to six cups of coffee a day seems to be good for one's health.Other studies have said coffee could be bad for our health. Many have focused on the effects of caffeine on blood pressure. Head researcher Dr Neal D. Freedman said his study means people do not have to worry about drinking coffee. He wrote that for a long time people thought that drinking coffee was a risky thing to do. He said: "Our results…provide [comfort] for coffee drinkers that this isn't the case." He added that coffee contains over 1,000 compounds and many of these may be good for us.
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