Coffee Decreases Risk of Death

zoobyshoe

What? You're picking on the fact the thread title abbreviates the full claim?

Jimmy Snyder

Herein lies the flaw in the study.

zoobyshoe

Go ahead and analyze it, then.

zoobyshoe

OK, Jimmy has PM'ed me that he was joking. I didn't catch it because I was fully expecting someone, or several people, to attempt to deconstruct the study when I posted it. (It seems kinda loose to me, open to much questioning.)

Everyone may proceed with their coffee.

collinsmark

Given how much coffee* I drink, I'm suspect that it might actually decrease my risk of eventual death. Although I concede that my other vices might get me in the end.

*(For years I've called "coffee" "sacred fluid of life.")

Then again, I don't believe in life before coffee, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

Drakkith

Nonsense, everyone knows that Zeus drank Mountain Dew, aka "The Nectar of the Gods" to stay immortal. It was like Popeye's spinach to him.

Jack21222

I made the joke first, and nobody responded. :-(

Jimmy Snyder

My bad. I didn't follow the link and ended up repeating your joke. If it's any consolation, yours was funnier.

zoobyshoe

I think we've all learned a lesson about humor here: death is hilarious, but coffee is not funny.

russ_watters

Perhaps the study just proved that people who have time to drink coffee have safe jobs?

Astronuc

I think most folks take death pretty seriously, especially when it comes to one's own.

It's not like anyone is looking for a reason, eh?

The important point is that drinking coffee won't change the likelihood of dying at the end of one's life. So we can rest easy.

In the meantime, at the moment, I'm drinking Top Sail Imperial Porter.

zoobyshoe

I was thinking it could be spun to say that healthy people are more likely to drink coffee everyday. It's probably safe to conclude at least 75% of people in comas don't drink coffee, for example.

Dakota Fang

But it still caffeine, which acts as stimulant drug if ingested too much. That is why moderation is needed

Evo

It's not the caffiene according to the study, so decaf is just as beneficial.

KiwiKid

Not to mention that *anything* you ingest is best done in moderation. You can kill yourself with water, too. I don't think anyone is thinking that this study shows that since coffee is healthy, we should all have 30 cups a day.

zoobyshoe

Notice that coffee seemed to reduce the risk of death from injuries and accidents!

This suggests to me what I said to Russ, that they may have reversed cause and effect. The study may actually show that people who are already healthy and alert are more likely to feel like enjoying a couple cups of coffee a day. The presence of incipient heart disease, lung disease, strokes, diabetes, and infections, may increase people's tendency to have accidents, and also cut their desire to engage in unnecessary activities, like going out to a coffee shop. When you feel poorly you do less. In fact, people with some of these conditions may have been told by a doctor to avoid caffeine.

dimensionless

So maybe coffee drinkers are not addicts then. Still, this reminds me of all the hoopla surrounding the benefits of wine drinking, which I think, is somewhat overhyped and misguided. These beverages are probably being consumed in place of something else that could potentially be more nutritious. I will say that the evidence looks pretty good that coffee and modest amounts of wine are probably not harmful.