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New research offers new opportunities for drinking coffee, showing that it can boost chances for a longer life. (July 2)
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A new study links drinking coffee to living a longer life, according to research published Monday.

Researchers studied half a million people across the United Kingdom who drank 1 to 8 cups of coffee a day for the report published in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA.

"We found that people who drank two to three cups per day." Erikka Loftfield, a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute NPR.

This population-based study of people in the United States is an association between coffee and health. Howard Bauchner, editor in chief of the medical journal JAMA and The JAMA Network, noted

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A study published last year in the BMJ British medical journal reviewed at more than 200 previous studies and suggested cause harm.

Drank at least four kilograms of drunk coffee. Two studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in July.

Still, some medical professionals wearing a coffee suit. An editorial by Eliseo Guallar from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, said there is no way to know if coffee prevents it. kind of coffee drinks they're drinking.

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