In the journals: Coffee drinking lowers mortality risk in women
In the journals
For people who enjoy their daily java, findings on coffee's health effects have been largely reassuring. For one thing, older studies linking coffee to health problems such as pancreatic cancer and heart disease were found to be flawed, because they didn't take into account the real culprit: smoking, a habit once common among coffee drinkers. There's no evidence that coffee drinking itself causes cancer. And investigations have found that although coffee temporarily boosts blood pressure and heart rate in some people, moderate consumption (two to four cups per day) doesn't increase the risk for heart disease.
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