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Can Coffee Help You Stay Away From Heart Disease? Starbuck is going to close down 600 outlets in United States. Does it mean that fewer people are drinking coffee now? This may not be true because Starbuck will still be opening more than 100 new stores at carefully selected locations next year. Coffee remains a popular beverage for many people around the world. Even Chinese in mainland China, which used to drink Chinese tea, have started to patronize coffee. For coffee lovers, a day without a cup of coffee is as if something is missing in that day. Studies have referred coffee as a great source of antioxidants, which may protect against free radicals that can damage cells, and may play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases. Yet, debate has been going on among scientists about the health effects of drinking coffee, which contains the stimulant caffeine and a number of other important compounds. Many past researches on the health effects of coffee also found controversial results. For example, a study in January 2008 found that pregnant women who drink 2 or more cups of coffee a day had twice the risk of miscarriage, comparing to those who do not drink coffee. In the same month, a study however reported that drinking caffeinated coffee lowered a woman's risk of ovarian cancer.
Long-term coffee drinking does not appear to increase the risk of a person's early death and it may cut a person's chances of dying from heart disease. This is the latest finding reported by researchers at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain on June 16, 2008 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. In the new study, the researchers looked at people who drank caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee. They followed 84,214 United States women from 1980 to 2004 and 41,736 US men from 1986 to 2004, and found that regular coffee drinking (up to 6 cups a day) was not associated with increased deaths among the study's middle-aged participants. In fact, coffee drinkers, particularly women, experienced a small decline in death rates from heart disease. The study also found no association between coffee consumption and cancer deaths. Participants in the research completed questionnaires on how frequently they drank coffee, other diet habits, smoking and medical conditions. The mortality risk over the period of the study among these people with different coffee-drinking habits was studied. It was found that women who reported drinking 2 to 3 cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25 percent lower risk of death from heart disease than women who did not drink coffee. A smaller decreased risk for men was also noticed but it was not statistically significant. Meanwhile, drinking decaffeinated coffee was associated with a small reduction in overall mortality risk. The participants had no history of cardiovascular disease or cancer when they joined the study. The women were nurses and the men were doctors, dentists and other health professionals. In conclusion, the researchers indicate that coffee consumption does not have a harmful effect on health and it seems like long-term coffee consumption may have some beneficial effects.
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